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Back in the day, Rapidshare was one of the most popular file-sharing websites around. The time has now come to close the doors on the site as it has been officially announced that Rapidshare will close in March. The decision comes after a long period of decline for the... Read more
For as great as smartphones are, sometimes they’re really inconvenient. Case(s) in point: you’re in the middle of a very important job interview and your phone starts loudly ringing in your pocket because you forgot to put it on silent. Or, you’re at the movie theater and someone calls... Read more
Boston Dynamics Announces New Quadruped: Spot
News February 11, 2015
Boston Dynamics employees have recently showcased their newest member of the ‘Dog’ team: Spot. Boston Dynamics’ latest quadruped has an incredible ability to self-stabilize and more than one employee has been given the opportunity to literally kick Spot, to see if he will get up after being kicked down... Read more
Robot Vacuum Attacks Sleeping Woman
News February 11, 2015
Beware the vacuums! A South Korean woman is happy to be out of the clutches of her robot vacuum, after it decided to attack her while she was sleeping. Here’s apparently what happened: The woman set the robot vacuum to sweep the floor and then decided to take a... Read more
With the ability to pay for your goods and services in so many different ways these days, it was only a matter of time before the tech giants figured out they are going to make lots of revenue from NFC mobile payments. Both Google and Apple have entered the field... Read more
Are you an avid gamer who’s trying to spruce up your living room a little bit? Haven’t found just the right feng shui yet? Can’t get everything coordinated just the way you want it? Why not just use the PlayStation 3 controller as a coffee table? Of course I... Read more
Apple is apparently scaling back from two large updates to the iOS platform this year, content with bug fixes, stability issues and an overall performance buff for users of the forthcoming iOS 9. Two years ago, Apple launched iOS 7 with the fully redesigned look, followed in 2014 by... Read more
Samsung Starts Mass Production of EPOP Memory
News February 10, 2015
The South Korean electronics giant, Samsung, have recently announced they have gone into mass production of the industry’s very first ePoP memory for smartphones. ePoP stands for embedded package on package. The memory module is a single memory package, which has 3GB LPDDR3 DRAM, a 32GB eMMC (Embedded Multi-Media... Read more
With so much bad news circulating around the internet these days, sometimes it’s just refreshing to read about something good that happened thanks to the internet and social media. We often focus on the bad side of social media, but at the end of the day, a lot of... Read more
Smartphones are a mixed bag. They all have their differences, but behind the operating system they are all pretty much the same. They have a display, a data connection, a web browser and a camera or two. What is different is the operating system that the phone runs on.... Read more
Crouching Tiger Actress Proposed To With A Drone
News February 10, 2015
You may remember actress Zhang Ziyi for her role in the hit movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Today, though, she’s making the news headlines thanks to her engagement to Chinese musician Wang Feng. (Many congratulations to the happy couple!) It’s not the fact that she’s engaged that’s making the news though,... Read more
GOM Player Updated
MultimediaNews February 9, 2015
GOM is a free media player, which has popular audio and video codecs built-in. The application will play almost any type of media that you may have on your system. The user interface is easily navigated and GOM Player has lots of advanced functions. Codec Finder GOM Player includes many... Read more
Pope Francis Doesn’t Know How To Use A Computer
News February 9, 2015
Pope Francis is a man capable of many things: Inspiring people worldwide, reforming the Catholic Church, interacting with the “least of these” on a regular basis, breaking all the former papacy “rules” – but he’s at a loss when it comes to using a computer. He is currently 78-years-old,... Read more
US Navy’s SAFFiR and DC-21: The Future of Fire Fighting
News February 9, 2015
US Navy and Virginia Tech engineers have been developing SAFFiR, the humanoid firefighting robot, for an number of years now. It looks like SAFFiR is now a few steps further than the initial prototype stage of development as the military division has demonstrated what SAFFiR is capable of doing... Read more
Apple is reportedly working on an internet TV service similar to Dish Network’s recently announced ‘Sling TV’, a $20 per month TV platform with 20 cable channels available, including ESPN. Several executives have been showing demos of the service to network programmers, looking to grab as many high-profile channels... Read more
3D printing of prostheses is a big thing. There are literally thousands of individuals who are having their lives made a little bit easier, thanks to the use of 3D printing technology. There are wonderful stories from around the world that touch our hearts when we hear of them. ... Read more
It’s inevitable that if you fail badly enough, it will have been caught on a camera somewhere, either by your not-so-best friend or worse a security camera. It is also inevitable that the footage will end up on the Internet for the whole World Wide Web to see. Rather... Read more
NASA Announces A Mission To Europa
News February 6, 2015
Senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Pappalardo, informed New Scientist of a planned mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Europa is the sixth largest moon in the solar system. Pappalardo said, “This is a big deal. We’re moving forward to the next phase, where you’re a real mission. It’s... Read more