Google's 'Project Loon' brings Internet to the world through balloon
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 11:19:37 -0700 | technology-news
Earlier this month, Google launched Project Loon—a strategy to link remote areas of the globe to the Internet via balloon. Yes, balloon. “Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does...
Now you can send tweets to aliens in a solar system far, far away
Posted by: PrairieDogPress
Carmel Valley Village :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 15:48:27 -0700 | technology-news
Some people feel we shouldn’t be sending messages into deep space unless we know who might be intercepting those messages, but other folks want the ability to send their personal notes to the cosmos in hopes that E.T. might capture...
Chinese Company Unveils World's Slimmest Smartphone
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 20:37:58 -0700 | technology-news
The Chinese have reduced the smartphone like never before. Chinese mobile device manufacturer Huawei recently released the Ascend P6, a slim beauty that supposedly holds the record as the skinniest smartphone in the world according to the company. Huawei is...
BitTorrent pairs with Public Enemy for remix contest
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 20:32:05 -0700 | technology-news
No one can deny Public Enemy’s massive impact on the history of hip hop. The influence of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the group’s seminal album released in 1988, can be heard in most of...
Facebook is finally letting you post photos in comments
Posted by: Joe Kukura
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 13:03:30 -0700 | technology-news
You don't need me to tell you to go check your Facebook account, because you already will fifteen times today anyway. But when you do, you might have two sweet new features that Facebook has been long promising, but not...
Internet more important than food?
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 19:11:28 -0700 | technology-news
According to a new study, internet access is more important than food and shelter. Where would you place internet access? Is being able to tweet or Google that movie to find out who that actor is or post something about...
New York City Reveals Free Charging Stations
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 11:29:58 -0700 | technology-news
New York City is partnering up with AT&T to keep its citizen’s phones charged up. The city unveiled solar powered charging stations this week. Eventually, the structures will be popping up on street corners, beaches and in parks throughout the...
De-Teching Bars With the Offline Glass
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 12:14:27 -0700 | technology-news
As smartphone penetration in the United States passes the 50% mark and seemingly everyone everywhere is busy Googling, Liking, Tweeting and texting, there’s an interesting counter-movement to de-tech some areas of our life. I don’t know if anyone else has...
New research suggests Mars atmosphere could have been oxygen rich
Posted by: arkar
Pasadena :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 21:20:22 -0700 | technology-news
According to a new research, it is likely that at some point in Mars’ history, the Red Planet could have most likely had oxygen in its atmosphere possibly even before the planet earth. It has long been theorised that in...
Remains of the Day: This belongs in a museum
Source: Macworld
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 17:26:54 -0700 | technology-news
The remainders for Wednesday, June 19, 2013 will spin you right round, baby, right round. New Mac Pro reaction: Video pros speak about GPU and storage concerns (Macworld UK) Who better to ask about the new Mac Pro than professional...
Anti-social media app helps you avoid other people
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 18:19:34 -0700 | technology-news
The cheeky new app, billed "an experiment in ant-social media," leverages a user's own social network to decrease the likeliness of actually crossing paths with someone in it. Operating based on Foursquare check-ins, the site tracks your contacts, plots their...
School librarian finds fake Blake
Source: BBC
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 17:56:48 -0700 | technology-news
Rather than the work of an English poet in the 19th Century, Two Sunflowers Move into the Yellow Room was written in the United States in the 1980s. This mislabelling shows how the internet can replicate errors, warns Thomas Pitchford,...
Best time to drive a hybrid? When traffic is bad.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 17:37:03 -0700 | technology-news
Hybrid cars can cost thousands of dollars more than their traditional counterparts, but in cities racked with congestion, they can easily save nearly that much in gas, a Carnegie Mellon University study found.
Public Enemy uses BitTorrent to crowd-source remix for new track
Source: LA Times
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 20:32:04 -0700 | technology-news
It takes a nation of millions to make Public Enemy's next remix. The political hip-hop group, best known for such songs as "Bring the Noise" and "Fight the Power," is letting fans remix its new single, Get Up Stand Up,...
Yahoo rejects fears hackers will exploit old user IDs
Source: Reuters
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 18:15:53 -0700 | technology-news
Topics The Yahoo logo is shown at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California April 16, 2013. Yahoo Inc on Wednesday downplayed concerns that its plans to recycle inactive user IDs could leave users exposed to hackers, saying only 7 percent...
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