Microsoft Points are something most people either hate or are indifferent to, with not many people viewing the virtual currency favorably enough to champion it as something that should stick around. As such, we’ve heard rumors for quite a while now that Microsoft planned to ditch the system, replacing it with real currency, but Points
It’s hard to get a clean username anymore when signing up for a service, especially if it’s a fairly popular service, like Twitter or Yahoo. Speaking of that, though, Yahoo has announced that it’ll be doing a bit of spring cleaning on all of its accounts, deactivating the ones that have been inactive for a
Facebook announced today that they have opened up their first data center outside the US in Luleå, Sweden. It’s located in a small town at the northern edge of the Baltic Sea, and is just 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It’s an odd place for a data center, but Facebook says there are
The Symbian mobile operating system had its hay day, and surprisingly it was the number one mobile OS in the world up until a few years ago when Android took the lead. While many phone manufacturers used Symbian, Nokia was most famous for using Symbian (as they also own the platform), and it seems that
It’s no secret that there’s some contention between Pandora and the powers that be over how much it pays for every song its users listen to, with the Internet radio station feeling it pays too much, and with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, more commonly known as ASCAP, frequently trying to raise
In case you’ve somehow missed all the hoopla, the Internet has been in various states of uproar over PRISM and the allegations that several major companies give the government unrestricted access to their servers. Apple, Google, and others have been vocal about such statements, saying they are not true, but that has not stymied the
Robots can do a lot of things, but can they get you out of going to Albany for a really boring meeting? A robotics design team at Cisco, working with the folks over at iRobot, are hoping so. They are developing a bot that is designed to give HD telepresence. It can even drive itself to the meeting (from inside of the office, that is) to save you the site.
As it was tipped just days ago by Israeli news sources with the inside line, so too does Google make their acquisition of the Waze team official. This acquisition has Google bringing in a team of creators that’ve made the Waze app a highly-used collection of real-time travel and traffic information bits, lighting the fire
Admit it- You’ve always wanted to build a customized robot friend, but
the limitations of modern science just keep giving us vacuum cleaners to
step around. Thankfully, My Robot Nation found a worthwhile use for 3D
printing to give you the robot of your dreams!
China presents a lucrative opportunity for celebrities overexposed to jaded First World markets and authorized or not, all sorts of Chinese businesses are choosing their faces to promote their brands.
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