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Water is pretty wild when you think about it: all of its three states of matter are consumable by humans, and one in particular can even give off electrical power. A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discovered that when water condenses on and spontaneously jumps back and forth b
PredictionIO, a startup that has crafted an open-source program developers can use to add machine-learning smarts into their applications, might just be the setting the tone for the next wave in data technology. More than 4,000 people have shown interest in the project by giving it a star on GitHub,
Snapchat may take a leaf out of Asia’s messaging app playbook when it comes to making money, after two potentially telling trademark filings were unearthed. TechCrunch dug up filings related to processing electronic payments and money transfers. There’s an obvious joke here about ephemeral money tra
Pandora Australia and New Zealand has cracked 2 million registered listeners with the streaming service now attracting two new users every second. However, Pandora’s Australia and New Zealand MD, Jane Huxley, said she isn’t surprised about the growth because of the way the product organi
UST Global, an information technology solutions and services company for Global 1000 enterprises, has announced a two million dollar strategic investment into Silicon Valley based xTV, a pioneer in new Media as a Service sector. In additional to the investment, UST Global and xTV will partner to bri
Children’s technology company LeapFrog has announced its latest product, a games console to promote learning while gaming. LeapFrog is aiming the LeapTV games console at 3-8 year-olds who may have their eyes on the likes of the Xbox and PS4, providing parents with a more suitable option. It’s simple
If you’ve been put off Verizon’s prepaid mobile plans in the past, due to a lack of fast 4G LTE data, it could be time to take another look. The network has announced that anyone selecting one of its Allset plans can now use a 4G phone, and take advantage of faster data speeds without […]
With the consumer-facing cloud storage space getting ever more crowded, Apple announced its own iCloud Drive offering just last month, Dropbox has not been sitting on its laurels, waiting for its 300 million customers to be lured away by rivals. For one thing it’s been tooling up with lots of acquis
Considering that we spend hundreds of dollars of our hard earned money on our smartphones, safe to say that we’d like them to last as long as possible, right? After all unless you have a lot of disposable income, changing smartphones every few months doesn’t seem like a very feasible thing to do. We
The South Korean government said Wednesday it plans to draw up a 10-year blueprint for the country’s 3D printing industry to turn it into a new growth engine. Under the blueprint, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy will come up with
We may have less than 30 years before robots become as intelligent as humans, and Honda’s taking another big step in the right direction today by unleashing its latest ASIMO on Europe. Do robots like Zungenwurst? The new ASIMO, first shown off earlier this year, is smarter, has better dexterit
This year has been the battle of smart homes among big internet firms. Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion, while Apple announced Homekit at its WWDC conference in June, an SDK that aggregates third party Internet of Things apps into one place. Now Samsung is also planning to enter the battle, as Te
