We’ve all been there, quietly setting up an account for a website or service, only to be met with the CAPTCHA. Everything is great, then some misaligned words with weird fonts and distortion take hold, leaving you craning your neck and questioning your eyesight. CAPTCHA is designed to thwart bots from creating fake accounts or sending spam messages, but for … Continue reading
Blurring the lines between desktop and mobile devices for years now, the development team at Sand Studio have released AirDroid 3. AirDroid 3 is the biggest update to the AirDroid ecosystem since the beginning, this system allows you to have pop-up notifications from your phone appear on your desktop computer’s home screen. SMS messages appear and are able to be … Continue reading
This is a brutally honest account of my first Himalayan climb — an attempt on the 20,305′ Imja Tse — more popularly known as Island Peak. While it’s a baby by Himalayan standards only one other point on earth outside of Asia reach a higher altitude.
Wire is a beautiful new messaging app created by some of the key people behind Skype. The app is an effort to streamline some of the clunkiness that exists in virtually every messaging app out there. After trying it out this morning, I can say that the app succeeds. Whether anybody will use it or not is an entirely different question.
For years, the government and phone carriers have been squabbling over secret surveillance—because of the dollar amount on the bill. Most recently, AT&T’s thrifty little offshoot Cricket Communications has agreed to pay out $2.1 million in a settlement for overcharging federal and state law enforcement agencies for wiretaps and pen registers, and Sprint is also being sued by the government for overcharging for wiretaps.
An effective commercial doesn’t necessarily have to be a multi-million dollar production. Remember that Nike ad with Tiger Woods bouncing a golf ball on his club? It was supposed to be completely different until the director saw his skills on set. VW had similar luck with this ad made with nothing but an action cam attached to the spinning wheel of a driving car.
Free Amazon money. Can’t complain about that. Plus, if you use Google Checkout with this deal, you’ll get a $5 Toys R Us card too. Plus, if you’re creating a new Gyft account, you’ll get a $5 account credit after your purchase. The code should work on other gift cards as well, if you’d prefer to shop at another retailer.
Data centers are boring. They have to be; these are spaces of control, consistency, security. You wouldn’t expect to find much creativity inside the plain facades of these highly-regulated structures—much less hacked-together experiments involving robotic Blu-ray storage systems and thousands of Mac Minis.
After explaining why pure scientific research is crucial for the advancement of humanity at all levels, David Kaplan tell us why the Higgs boson is so important to our very own existence and the survival of the entire Universe in very simple way.
Skype co-founder Janus Friis thinks the 11-year-old program’s a liiittle outdated, that’s why he now backs and advises its newest rival called Wire. “A lot has changed since then — we are all used to free calls and texting, and we have taken to carr…
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