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Twitter does to Tumblr what it did to Instagram last month

Twitter does to Tumblr what it did to Instagram last month

A little less than a month ago, Twitter blocked API privileges for Instagram making it unable to allow users to...

Aerofex Hover Bike: shut up and take my money

Aerofex Hover Bike: shut up and take my money

I don't care if it's untested. I don't care if it appears unstable even when going slower than I can...

Submit your blog to Bing and Google to increase traffic

Submit your blog to Bing and Google to increase traffic

Why do we wait for search engines like Google or Bing to crawl our sites? There are so many websites...

The technology takeover

The technology takeover

There has been a welcomed invasion in our lives, one that greets us as in the morning much like the...

Living in the midst of robotic takeover

Living in the midst of robotic takeover

I was at the library the other day checking out some books (yes, real physical books that are printed on...

Instagram rolled the dice. They didn’t cut a “bad deal”.

Instagram rolled the dice. They didn’t cut a “bad deal”.

The presumptions of reporters are often baffling. Bloggers (myself included) are usually worse, but when everyone in the tech blogging...

Thanks technology for helping make a video for Emily

Thanks technology for helping make a video for Emily

Wow, if you have yet to see this teenage boy profess his love for some girl named Emily, you need...

Touching “Magic Arms” video shows some of the potential of 3D printers

Touching “Magic Arms” video shows some of the potential of 3D printers

We've seen some of the amazing things that 3D printers can do, but most of them are more for folly...

Profilactic prevents an online identity crisis

Profilactic prevents an online identity crisis

People who use social media for business or for pleasure are among various social networks and for some, people like...

Robot servants are probably cheaper than you think

Robot servants are probably cheaper than you think

The concept of robots from the past has either centered around making mundane tasks of humanity easier or obsolete, or...

This video is going to make you hungry

This video is going to make you hungry

This is how to use an auto tuned app the right way, not to mention the fact that he is...

Facebook and class action lawyers work out sweet deal for themselves. Judge isn’t buying it.

Facebook and class action lawyers work out sweet deal for themselves. Judge isn’t buying it.

Facebook and the lawyers suing them over their "Sponsored Stories" advertising platform worked out a pretty sweet deal whereby the...

Holy cowabunga dude, I heart Google+ Ripples

Holy cowabunga dude, I heart Google+ Ripples

Google has made so many changes and added new features it is making Facebook look like the tortoise in this...

Bear sex and cancer: What The Oatmeal can teach us about social media

Bear sex and cancer: What The Oatmeal can teach us about social media

What do Bear Sex and Cancer have in common? $169,000. Matthew Inman, creator of the controversial info-graphic website The Oatmeal,...

Is DNA coding your data the future of stored information?

Is DNA coding your data the future of stored information?

Recently on Spectrum, Scientists from Harvard University have successfully converted a 53,000 word book into a single strand of DNA....

How technology fanatics plan for a trip

How technology fanatics plan for a trip

Are you looking to take a trip this Summer? Or maybe you are planning to go home for the holidays?...

A robot for your smartphone? Your wish has been granted.

A robot for your smartphone? Your wish has been granted.

Robots are ultra-cool, something we have wanted since long before Rosey the maid from the Jetsons. Technology has allowed us...

Twitter: another example of why you never build a service around someone else’s service

Twitter: another example of why you never build a service around someone else’s service

It was recently revealed that Twitter has over 500 million users. Now the fat birds of microblogging are planning to...

The force is strong with this one: An R2-D2 figurine you control with a matching watch

The force is strong with this one: An R2-D2 figurine you control with a matching watch

Hello my far away galaxy friend. We meet at last… Charge forth with light sabers, wookies and storm troopers and...

Femto-photography: one trillion frames per second

Femto-photography: one trillion frames per second

What is femto-photography? According to Ramesh Raskar, it's "a new imaging technique so fast that it creates slow motion video...