While we all wait for more news, both of the official kind and leaks alike, to make its way out of Google I/O 2013, the massive company has decided to make a few preemptive strikes by putting out information on its own. So far, these have mostly been expected bits of news, like updates to […]
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Android 4.3 Release Leaked Early
Today’s keynote address at the first day of Google I/O 2013 may lack a few surprises considering the amount of news leaking out early. One such example is the release of Android 4.3, which The Verge found by digging through the search listings on Google’s developer website. Not much is known about Android 4.3 (Jelly […]
DC Comics Comes To The Scribblenauts Universe
Warner Bros. Interactive has teamed up with video game company 5TH Cell to create Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, where you get to control the main character Maxwell as he goes on adventures with iconic heroes. As with other Scribblenauts games, you use your magic notebook to summon objects by writing their names out, […]
Square Reimagines The Register With Introduction Of Square Stand
What was once most prevalent as an easy way for food trucks and farmer’s market stands to take credit cards has made its way into brick and mortar business as the register of choice. Square changed the way people can take and give payments to business, allowing for quick and easy mobile payments, and now […]
Injustice: Gods Among Us Unused Concept Art (Hint: It’s Mostly Terrible) And Dicey DLC
Yikes. Injustice: Gods Among Us, the Justice League video game that gives you the chance to pit your favorite heroes against each other in surprisingly brutal battles, continues to set itself up for pounding after pounding by the public. First, there are the dicier story elements of the NetherRealm Studios and DC Comics collaboration. Avoid […]
Create And Deliver Snail Mail Handwritten Cards With Felt App
In this age of instant communication, where texting is replacing phone calls and now even Facebook private messaging has started to outpace email usage, there remains a small thrill at receiving a personal letter addressed to you through traditional mail. Felt, an app available for iPads, seeks to recapture that sentimental sensation by offering a […]
Stirring Ad Campaign Displays Different Images For Kids And Adults
There’s little we can add to what’s said or shown in this video by Fundación ANAR, or Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk, to get across the impact and necessity of this type of campaign to help those who might be too scared to ask for it. With the help of the advertising agency […]
Photographer Takes Apart Tech For Introspective Art Installation
When I was a kid, I liked to take things apart. Remote control cars, calculators, bicycles. I’d sit down with whatever tools I could find that would work and make what was whole into many separate pieces. Part of that was to stave off a curiosity about what was happening inside of these machines. Another […]
YouTube Says It’s Replaced TV; Dreamworks Pays $33M For YouTube Teen Network
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt certainly doesn’t lack confidence. Last night, Schmidt made the assertion to a large room full of advertisers that internet video doesn’t need to concern itself with supplanting standard television watching because he says, “That’s already happened.” Having recently surpassed the one billionth unique visitor landmark, YouTube has a reason to […]
Send A Haiku To Mars
Later this year, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) is scheduled to launch on an exploratory and scientific mission for NASA, with support by the University of Colorado Boulder. As part of the spacecraft’s mission, it will act as the first spacecraft to focus primarily on the state of the upper atmosphere, the […]