Yesterday was a bad day to be a GoDaddy.com customer. A staggering amount of websites that use GoDaddy to host their content or email have found the service not responding, with websites and email remaining down. In a tweet from someone named AnonymousOwn3r (who claims to be the security leader of the united hacker group […]
Take a preliminary glimpse at the photos of the new invisible bike helmet and you just might believe this new invention is a hoax, a too-cool piece of technological fiction meant to taunt the simultaneously safety- and fashion-conscious. Bike enthusiasts, cycling commuters, and helmet haters everywhere rejoice – it’s real. Hövding (the official name of […]
Want to know who got turned down for a gun permit? Turns out that there’s an app for that, at least in Philadelphia. There, the Department of Licenses and Inspection decided to release a web app that shows an insane amount of detail, on a handy-dandy, easy to use map. You can use the map […]
August 30, 2012 marks a momentous day in the history of online cat videos. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is coaxing fans of feline YouTube capers out from behind their computer screens and out into the open. More specifically, these cat video lovers can stalk out into Open Field, the Walker’s big, green lawn […]
When Northeastern Washington D.C. resident Seth Horvitz placed his order on Amazon for a new flat panel television, the transaction misfired in a big way. Instead of finding his new TV waiting for him on his doorstep on Wednesday, Horvitz found a long, oddly shaped box that contained a Sig Sauer SIG716 semi-automatic assault rifle! […]
Many of us were glued to the computer last night, watching NASA’s latest Mars mission. The Curiosity, a new exploratory vehicle, was successfully dropped/flung to the Martian surface. Some have pointed out the interesting fact that Apple’s iPhone 4s is four times more powerful than the new rover. This has an additional cool factor too […]
In an announcement on the official Google blog, the company announced Friday its plan to kill Google Listen and immediately removed the long-suffering podcast app from Google Play search results. We launched Google Listen through Google Labs in August 2009, to give people a way to discover and listen to podcasts. However, with Google Play, […]
With days left before the opening ceremonies at the 2012 London Olympics, NBC and Adobe has made their Olympics Android apps available to a wider (but still not universal) audience. You might want to hold off on celebrating, though. The predictable basics (schedules, results, breaking updates) are present, but past that, both the main NBC […]
Lovotics is at it again. This time, the Singapore-based company is working on a system that transmits kisses from one person to another. Lovotics calls the device a Kissenger: The Kiss Transmitter, and it’s, well, it’s a little creepy. Actually, creepy is probably an understatement. Okay, let’s run down the list of problems. How lazy […]
With just days left before the opening of the 2012 Olympic games in London, it’s time to get your mobile devices ready. NBC, which again has the exclusive United States broadcasting rights to the games, has partnered with Adobe to release two separate Android apps to augment its official coverage. The main app, NBC Olympics, […]
