So Facebook Home is coming to Android phones. But just the good Android phones. The HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III, Note II, and the new HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, and HTC First for now. That’s it, that’s the list. If your phone is more than a year old, no Facebook Home for you. And that’s how it has to be, really. More »
One of the centerpieces of Facebook’s new interface are “chat heads,” Facebook’s vision for the way that we should do messaging. Sounds fun! But what are they, exactly? And will they really change how we communicate? More »
We’ve been talking about it for years now—half dread, half excitement—and now it’s no longer just our imaginations. The Facebook Phone is as real as it’s probably ever going to get: it’s called Facebook Home a complete Android takeover that converts your smartphone. More »
Back in 2011, when Steve Jobs announced his plans to build a spaceship-like Cupertino HQ for Apple, we all knew it was going to be one ridiculously lavish office. But according to Bloomberg Businessweek, it’s due for a bit of a downgrade before construction starts this June. It’ll still be crazy, just not totally absurd. More »
Facebook’s got a new phone. And a new home screen. They’re going to be fine, probably, more or less. But you are also asleep now because the idea of a Facebook phone bores you, deeply. Maybe it shouldn’t. In a perfect world, there’s a compelling case for a true blue Facebook phone. More »
The word on the interwebs today is that this 1999 Angelfire page belongs to one Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, that Mark Zuckerberg, which means this could be the very first website that the hoody that made Facebook ever created. If true, it’s a time machine into the 15-year-old brain of the most powerful man on the Internet. More »
While watching sports, have you ever stopped (midway through a bowl of Cheetos) to wonder, “How far are those guys actually running?” It’s a common question, one that’s historically been subject mostly to guesswork, Thanks to some recent technological developments, though, we can now actually apply some data to it. More »
Finding the Higgs Boson particle is a revolutionary scientific discovery, sure, but CERN isn’t the only scientific body rewriting our understanding of elementary physics. An international team of researchers have just announced that the massive cosmic ray detector protruding from the ISS may have at long last detected dark matter. More »
It’s widely believed that Facebook will announce a new Android phone UI, called Home, along with accompanying HTC hardware at an event tomorrow. I know, we’re all thinking, “Ugg, Facebook phone.” But everything we’ve heard is really exciting. 9To5Google claims to have some shots of the new UI, and if they’re real, it’s going to be one of the most beautiful Android UIs to date. More »
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