Like the various uprisings of the Arab Spring, the London riots have led to a surprising amount of talk about the technology people use when operating en mass against the government. Text messages, Facebook, Twitter, and now Blackberry Messenger have all been targeted by governments as the sources of uprising.
The last week has brought a series of astonishing events to the streets of London. Looting, burning, at least 5 people are dead, thousands are in jail, and there has been over $350 million in property damage. It’s not the kind of scene you see every day, especially in a modern western democracy like the […]
In Yoni Gross’s review of the InTune headphones that went up Monday morning, we dropped a bit at the end about how you can win yourself a pair of these genre-specific earbuds. The rules are simple. Read any Techcitement article Respond to said Techcitement article in the comments section. That’s it. End of rules. On […]
The Intellaspot is one of High End Systems’s (HES) newest automated fixtures, and it’s 115 pounds of knock your socks off brightness and bad-assitude. I’ve had an opportunity to see these fixtures in action as well as to play with them myself. I’ll admit, I went into that experience expecting to be underwhelmed by yet […]
It was a telephone that looked like a football! Back in the days when telephones all looked alike and were made to blend in rather than stand out, here was creativity, here was design!
Can we find immortality? It looks like technology might be catching up to this long sought-after goal of not kicking on to the afterlife (or absence of one).
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Why the heck would I go shoe shopping when I can buy a sexy pair of robot pants instead? I recently did some YouTube surfing to catch up on the latest development in robotics and was surprised to find how far we’ve come in the development of exoskeletons. As of 2007, Berkeley Bionics had created […]
One look at the official Facebook page for the English Defence League (EDL) would give most people more than just pause. “I see the bbc [sic] have removed all non white faces from there coverage and just show burnt cars now,” says one commenter of the riots consuming parts of London and Manchester as of […]
Fashion designer and marketing provocateur Kenneth Cole has opened a new website that he says is aimed at raising social and political issues to foster discussion. Long known for socially conscious advertisements, Cole’s Where Do You Stand continues that tradition online. Or does it? Cole’s team has worked hard to give the website a slick, […]
Yesterday, Facebook’s Security Department was contacted by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). No, it’s not because of the social network’s obtrusive new chat layout, but it does have to do with growing concerns over security and privacy issues in a tangential way. The CDDR requested that any Facebook accounts set up or […]
