I have this friend Erez. Erez is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Visiting Faculty at Google, and has presented his ngram reader for Google Books at TEDxBoston. Erez is a diverse sort — he’s also worked on genome sequencing, an insole to help seniors keep their balance, and published a ground-breaking paper […]
The Russian Federal Space Agency, frequently referred to as Roscosmos, hasn’t had much luck with interplanetary missions in the past 20 years. RFSA’s most recent space probe, Phobos-Grunt, has a saga that deviates little from the outcomes of predecessors such as Mars 98. Launched on November 9, 2011, Phobos-Grunt was meant to land on Mars’s […]
Do you like technology? Do you like celebrities and pseudo-celebrities selling out so electronics manufacturers can leverage some of their popularity? Then you are going to love 2012 International CES, where the stars are shining bright! Seriously though, the list of celebrities showing up for the trade show is relatively long. True Lies star Eliza Dushku […]
Live hot sweaty teens are ready to get it on just for you! Assuming that you happen to be a sociologist working for Ericsson, anyway. The Sony-affiliated cell phone manufacturer has released the results of a study focusing on the dating habits of American teenagers and how their romantic entanglements intersect with technology. It turns […]
I really don’t want to become That Guy — the kind of guy who rails on and on about the superiority of his niche or failed tech (see: Betamax, DiVX disks, Newton PDAs, etc). But it’s hard to keep from doing that after reading the article titled “In Flop of H.P. TouchPad, an Object Lesson […]
According to Regretsy, the seller of an antique French violin on eBay is now out both the instrument and the $2,500 she received for the initial sale. Erica claims she sold the pre-WWII era French violin to a buyer in Canada, who then disputed the authenticity of the instrument. As would be understandable under the […]
Frank Warren, proprietor of famous blog/community art project PostSecret announced late last week that the site was permanently pulling the best-selling app from the Apple App Store. In a post on Sunday, Warren explained, saying that the decision was based on abuses of the app and threats from anonymous users. Like the PostSecret Blog, the […]
On December 8, 2011, the Tennessee National Guard, The Jason Foundation, Inc, and E4 Health launched Guard Your Buddy, a charter anti-suicide app aimed at helping struggling soldiers contemplating suicide, as well as their families, friends, and fellow guardsmen. In addition to the app, the collaborative group launched a website, complete with the same contact […]
If you’re one of the thousands who got a new iPad for Christmas, here’s something you can try at home if you also happen to own a feisty cat. It’s not just a high-tech Jetsons-esque tool of the future, it’s a cat toy! [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEBgZ5Y46U’] It just so happens that Techcitement had a glowing SnApp […]
Every once in a while, a story comes along so monumentally stupid, so thoroughly and transparently an attention grab, it takes two people to whine about it properly. Such is the case with the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences giving Steve Jobs a special “Trustees Award” Grammy. For this one, it’s going to […]
