It’s fair to say that America has, at best, a mixed record responding to natural disasters. The high profile failures of Hurricane Katrina still loom large, and while the response to Hurricane Sandy wasn’t the same unmitigated fiasco, such a statement is damning with faint praise. The government – some of it anyway – knows […]
Rio de Janeiro’s Conservation and Public Works Department is in the process of embedding 30 site-specific Quick Response (QR) codes throughout the city’s black and white mosaic sidewalks. Yes, those pixelated, Space Invader-looking blocks will be, well, invading Rio’s historical attractions to give Rio’s tourism department an injection of technology. Portugal, Wales, Italy, and Colombia […]
Do you work at the Large Hadron Collider? Do you think it’s the coolest thing you could possibly do with your life? Then, you’re likely the physicist I met recently from CERN who enjoyed seeing pieces of his life reflected back in mainstream culture on The Big Bang Theory. This show. It’s amazing. People either watch it […]
I was at Pepcom recently and as I walked through the conference looking at all the different kinds of tech being presented there, it occurred to me that while there is a lot of tech for tech’s sake and tech geared towards specific jobs, there was little tech that targets what I do most of […]
This morning, Google and Oracle, with the permission of the judge, reached a stipulation, agreeing, among other things, to leave the question of damages out of the jury’s hands. As of now, the jury has found two counts of copyright infringement by Google, for nine lines of rangeCheck code and eight decompiled Java files. The […]
HTC’s recent retooling and building of the One brand has given us the One X on AT&T, the One S on T-Mobile, and the EVO 4G LTE on Sprint. Some of us were wondering though — what about Verizon? Wonder no more! The largest network in the U.S. brings us a new, high-end HTC device […]
Sometimes just listening to things isn’t enough — you need to have sound shoved into your skull in the most efficient way possible. To that end, Sennheiser announced the release of two new products today, the IE 800 headphones and the HDVD 800 dynamic headphone amplifier. The IE 800’s feature technology were only seen before […]
Back in 2010 when Tom Scott presented a nightmare version of a flash mob gone wrong, it was greeted with rueful awareness that events could coalesce to a dangerous point. The message, that oversharing through social media can have real life consequences, is still being shouted from websites. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY’] In one of the more […]
From the perspective of a device manufacturer, one of the big pluses of the Android operating system is the adaptability. You can use it as a code base and completely customize the appearance (ie, the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire). Samsung and HTC have always been firm believers in this philosophy, dating way back […]
From our “I Thought it Was Just Me” department, Verizon Wireless is in the middle of a massive data outage. No news on the reason for the outage, but we’ll keep you posted. This would happen when I’m trying to download the “free for the next two days” Duke Nuk’em 3d. And, yes, we know […]
