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The first day went very differently when the two social networks went public. Facebook stayed steady, bolstered by some strategic investing. It eventually...

Heart disease often leads to heart attacks, and hearts attacks kill heart muscle cells, this is why half of the people who survive heart attacks die within 5 years. For years researchers have been trying to find a way engineer heart tissue that they could use to patch up damaged hearts, but they&#82

Users of China Telecom’s mobile IM product Yixin can get 300MB of free data simply by registering on the app. They can also acquire an extra 60MB each month by sending a mere 5 messages that month. Customers with China Mobile and China Unicom can also get the free 300MB of data by inviting six frien

Almost a week away from releasing its next-generation console, Sony announces that the PS3 has reached 80 million units sold after seven years of production. The PS3 system has delivered high quality entertainment experiences since its launch and has continuously evolved through system software upda

Call of Duty might be the dominant first person shooter of today, but it had to beat out another game before it could claim the top spot. The Medal of Honor series was that other game and it helped to motive the COD team as their target. They lined it up in their scope and […]

Doctors believe that lasers may be the secret to curing some of the world’s most tragic diseases. Lasers could prove to be the key in eliminating brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. New findings from researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the Polish Wrocl

If you're like most web designers, you've probably embraced the art of responsive web design. It's elegant, effective, and makes perfect sense when you...

So, you want a computer to monitor you. That’s fine. You want it to be in your arm, under your skin. That’s a little weird, but it might be more prevalent in the not too distant future so it’s definitely not unheard of in 2013. The kicker that takes it to the realm of absolute [&he

This isn’t a matter of someone being ousted. Co-founder and current CEO Allen DeBevoise is wanting a day-to-day operations person to run the company he’s been building for eight years while he continues at the high-altitude role of board chairman. In the meantime, they’re also look

With JetBlue and Delta being the first carriers to allow the use of devices on their flights during takeoff and landing, the alleged first photo depicting it was released today. Starting today, passengers on JetBlue and Delta flights will no longer be told to turn off their electronic devices before

You know those awesome startup ideas that you come up with but lack the time and ability to actually develop? Well a new company called Assembly will crowdsource your ideas for you, then pay you cash for them. Assembly is a new company creating a lot of buzz amongst the startup community right now,

Congress is playing the role of being on the side of the people prior to elections that will be heating up in a couple of months. They’re all saying the right rhetoric, making the right claims, and attempting to position themselves on the right side of the NSA line. The result of their propose

The ability to take a game with you rather than halt it while you leave is one of the most appealing new features of the PlayStation 4. You could be in the middle of fighting dragons or scoring goals when the need to leave the house arises – just about every gamer has experienced this [&hellip

Grand Theft Auto has been on a roller coaster the last month. They started off by releasing a game that was widely heralded and that broke records. Then, the released an online environment with flaws that would make one think the US government built it. They’re offering a little cheddar to mak

When geniuses get together, cool things can happen. When old geniuses come back together after they’ve done cool things, well, we may get to see what happens if a new Kickstarter is successful. A cool new Kickstarter campaign was launched today. Its goal? To reunite the original members of the

It’s an interesting question, one that sounds absurd at first but that actually starts hitting home once you think about it. If websites are in the business of guessing what we might be interested in based upon our clicks, aren’t we training it to fit into our past rather than give us th

The US government has an unannounced strategy when it comes to privacy legislation. When one fails, start another one. That’s a flaw in US politics as it’s easy to spin out an endless stream of seemingly different pieces of legislation in an effort to make the end goal come true. In this

When making movies, actors often try to emulate their characters by living in their shoes. Robert De Niro actually worked as a New York City cabbie for a time to prepare for his role in Taxi Driver. When you’re going to be playing an astronaut in space, sometimes you have to take on 2nd-hand k

Normally, when gadgets get an upgrade, they get a price hike as well. Amazon is in the business of giving more for less and they’re proving it with the upgrade and price reduction of the Kindle Fire HD. This is, of course, due to the release of the Kindle Fire HDX. No surprise, of course, [&he

Games in virtual worlds as massive as Grand Theft Auto V are bound to have glitches. Other games that operate in open landscapes have had some comical glitches, such as the hundreds documented in last year’s Skyrim release. This particular glitch in GTAV is ironic because if players park their

There’s a “disease” on the internet that plagues any entity that relies on other sources and exists for long enough. It’s called link rot, and thankfully it’s not contagious. It happens over time when links on a website or within documents no longer work. Websites chang

It has been a hot topic for longer than most topics can survive in the world of technology buzz. We’ve heard inside and out how the NSA uses extremely aggressive tactics to get a hold of data they claim is essential for national security. Now, some stalwarts in the technology world are calling

It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks, especially when the new trick goes against the very nature of the old tricks. That’s the biggest challenge for getting adoption of the various driverless car projects being worked on by most car manufacturers as well as companies like Google. We

If the rumors are true (and they often are when tech and Wall Street collide) then BlackBerry may be on the table for purchase. The once-proud smartphone maker has struggled to keep up and their latest (last?) play to stay alive with the BlackBerry 10 has not given them much hope for a future. Black

To some, it was a brilliant idea that would help Amazon reach even more people. To others, it was a quirky idea that was destined to fail. Early indications of a lack of success are having at least two major retailers pulling down the Amazon Lockers, a venture into the real world by the virtual [&he

The end may be near for the smartphone pioneer. With reports coming in that BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) may be cutting nearly half of their global workforce, our assertion that “RIM is dying” may be coming more rapidly than expected. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wedne

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings dropped a surprising statistic during an interview with Dutch website Tweakers last week, as he made the rounds promoting the launch of Netflix Netherlands. When asked if Dutch viewers would switch from piracy to Netflix, Hastings said sure, some will switch, and that pirac

The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people — the company’s RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama before iOS 6′s Panorama feature took some of the wind out of its sails. Their roots may be [&he

Pandora Media Inc. (P), the biggest Internet radio service, won a judge’s order to stop a group representing songwriters and music publishers from narrowing the scope of licenses that allow their music to be played. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan said in a ruling yesterday that Pandora

Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday asking that all wireless carriers be required to unlock all mobile devices so that users can easily switch between carriers. The proposal from the

Are we finally about to learn more about the “Steam Box”? Mastermind Gabe Newell dropped hints that next week is the time when we’ll finally get a taste of the gaming system that could combine the flexibility and power of PC gaming with the ease and simplicity of console gaming. Va

Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. President Dilma Rousseff ordered

Most business owners sued by patent trolls don’t talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one’s fingers and hope the problem goes away. It won’t, of course. Often they do the next best thing—hope it will go away for as little money as possible

Samsung may have just unveiled its Galaxy Gear smart watch with much fanfare two weeks ago, but it may already be working on the next generation of the device, according to a new report. As reported by CNET, Korean news site Digital Times says the Samsung is hard at work on the Galaxy Gear 2, [&hell

Twitter has lots of users. It wants a lot more. That is, in part, why it is planning a massive overhaul of its mobile apps, designed to make the service more appealing to mainstream users. You should get a first glimpse of Twitter’s new look in the not-too-distant future. Sources say the company is

It may be official that Twitter plans to go public, but let’s not forget there’s nothing official at all about its revenue model. It is still very much a work in progress. Agencies and brands say they’re impressed by the ad opportunities and features the company has put together so far, but they’re

From dropping your smartphone in the toilet to spilling coffee on your keyboard, most have experienced that sinking feeling associated with wasting money on technology. The U.S. government is no exception. Three federal agencies may have wasted as much as $321 million on information technology inves

It’s a physics issue. Signals in modern devices are extremely high speed; the easiest and cheapest way to combat this is to bring components closer together. For example, the wireless radios, RAM, and processor in all modern phones exist as one chip. They essentially put the CPU and wireless m

If you're going to make a walking robot to break records and draw crowds, you might as well make it a dragon. The "Tradinno" project by Zollner was...

The entire connected device market, which includes smartphones, tablets and PCs, will grow about 27.8% this year, but not because businesses and consumers are snapping up new laptops and desktops. Growth for traditional PCs continues to slow, while smartphones and tablets are picking up the slack, s