Scores of articles about multitasking have been written over the past few years. In many cases, it seems like researchers are trying to debunk the myth of multitasking. One recent article argues that those people who label themsel...
With so many people in US and UK battling obesity, it’s rare to not know someone in your social circle who isn’t actively trying to eat better. We’ve become increasingly more aware of the calories we take in, whi...
After selling off their social networking company Bebo for $850 million to AOL in 2008, husband and wife team Michael and Xochi Birch have bought back the company — which was experiencing financial difficulty in recent times...
Following what other companies have been doing for quite some time now, AT&T is now planning to sell data it collects from subscribers to other businesses — namely advertisers. This data includes wireless and Wi-Fi locat...
The New Century Global Center in China just opened its doors after three years of construction. Its located in Chengdu, which is the capital of Sichuan in southwestern China. Officials claim that it is the “largest freestand...
Recent research carried out by Microsoft has showed that a combination of two viruses, Vobfus and Beebone, is proving quite difficult to remove from infected Windows PCs. Like other typical malware, these two offers data thieves t...
A new malicious data wiper program dubbed Trojan.Korhigh by Symantec containing similar functionality to another piece of malware, which took the networks of several South Korean companies offline in a matter of hours back in Marc...
Boston University this week has filed a complaint against Apple for infringing a technology patent filed by one of its professor way back in 1997. The complaint which is asking the federal court to ban the sale of Apple products i...
Perhaps one product that Apple obviously wants to perfect is the earphones that accompany the iPhone and iPod Touch. The most recent effort brought about the recent iteration of the Apple earphones which came with the iPhone 5 and...
Ad agency BBDO Germany have teamed up with it’s German counterpart, broadcaster Sky Deustchland, to develop a technology which plays ads to travelers on trains when they rest their heads against a window. This is made possib...
Just one day after ads designed to promote the Moto X and its American roots were leaked, more details are beginning to surface on Google’s upcoming smartphone. As you can see in the image above, one of the customization opt...
We are all moving towards paperless schools and workplaces but 11 schools in the Netherlands are taking this concept to another level. In August these so called ‘Steve Jobs Schools’ will begin operation, and educationa...
According to numerous reports, Samsung has just purchased set-top box company Boxee for around $30 million. Boxee has been searching for a buyer since last month, but Samsung was hardly expected to be the one to make the acquisiti...
Major manufacturer of electronics Foxconn — perhaps better known for their manufacturing of Apple devices as well as for allegations surrounding worker conditions and salary — has indicated interest in becoming a wirel...
Vtel, a company based in the rural town of Springfield with a population slightly larger than 9000 persons, is offering gigabit internet to the residents of Vermont at a mouth watering rate of $29.95 or $39.95 per month. You are h...
The haircut involves a video camera and a TV.
Sometimes man-made objects can be beautiful, too.
"Let July 4th be our NSA Independence Day!"
This infographic tries to help you decide which new movies to watch.
If Apple's next iPhone looks like this, I will buy it. And that means a lot coming from me.
A mailbox shaped after Darth Vader from Star Wars.
In today’s fast paced environment, efficiency is the key to success. For this reason several pieces of software have been created, but alas not all are created equal. My job here today is to highlight the best of these piece...
When you create a shortcut for an application in Windows, the system displays a very small icon over the image. It looks like a little curved arrow, and it basically helps you determine the shortcuts from the real executables. The...
Who doesn’t like deals? I’d argue that everyone does, and that’s why services like Groupon, LivingSocial and Google Offers do so well. So naturally, any deal app for Android is going to do just as well, right? I don’t really know ...
Spam calls and cold sales calls are way less of a problem than they used to be a decade ago. That’s partially due to legislation, and partly due to the fact that more people have cell phones today: mobile phones are way easi...
I’ll be the first to admit that most hidden object games are annoying. One of the only ones I liked in recent memory was Reincarnations: Uncover the Past, and that was because the hidden object hunt made sense in the game...
I think, in many ways, we’ve become a nation of quantifiers. Apps and social networks make it easier than ever to quantify the daily minutiae of our lives. Now, more than ever, we can know exactly how many friends we have, h...
Or maybe he just had a tasty meal.
This could very well be a scene from a movie.
"By running free and open source software, I'm sticking it to the man!"
Who remembers the days of "small computers", aka PDAs?
When you use Windows for your business, you are at risk of the much-feared bluescreen of death.
Wouldn’t it be great to have X-ray vision? You could see through walls, and check out what other people are doing. No one would be able to sneak up on you. You could even see your neighbors… okay… nevermind maybe it would be a bad...
I’ve seen a lot of awesome things done with LEGO over the years — many epic dioramas and mind-boggling structures have been constructed with the colorful little bricks. But a prosthetic leg made out of LEGO? I’m ...
