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Travelers to Japan who have noted a difficulty in finding a WiFi hotspot to connect to will soon be able to get free WiFi access just by showing off their passports. Mashable reports that NTT launched a new program to serve foreign tourists, allowing them to register for a WiFi card by presenting th
The Secret Service, a law enforcement organization tasked with protecting the president from bullets and crazy people, may have the social skills of Sheldon Cooper. The agency appears to have a hard time recognizing sarcasm and is looking to science to help with its shortcomings. In a work order pos
The days of getting down and dirty in the garden are over. A new indoor food growing system allows users to Face Time with their fruits and veggies and even water them from afar with one click on the app. The SproutsIO system was developed by students at the MIT Media Lab so even those […]
Path, a private photo-sharing mobile social network, has announced that its users will have the ability to have messages disappear after a specific time has elapsed. This feature will be launched next week. Ephemeral messaging is one of Snapchat’s most popular features, which started a trend. Apple
An Israel-based battery company has demonstrated an aluminum-air chemistry that it claims can deliver as much as 1,000 miles per charge to electric cars. Clean technology company Phinergy, teaming with Alcoa, demonstrated the new electric car battery on a racetrack in Montreal this week in associati
A research project from the U.S. military that aims to replicate geckos’ legendary climbing ability has borne success: a material that enabled a 218-pound man to climb straight up a 25-foot glass wall. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s “Z-Man” program is meant t
While Apple was busy in San Francisco announcing a new set of features that will wow its fan boys, Mozilla’s Chairman Mitchell Baker was in Seattle discussing devices and tools that can that support a more broader and global community. “Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we
Public relations-tracking platform TrendKite has secured a $3.2 million round of funding, the startup announced today. TrendKite offers a service that helps brands and business clients track all of the promotional and media-generating efforts of your PR campaigns. The service also includes analytics
Verizon and AT&T probably aren’t fans of Sprint’s plan to buy T-Mobile and now they have yet another reason to hate it: Apparently it will make T-Mobile CEO John Legere more powerful. Bloomberg’s sources say that Legere, the notoriously foul-mouthed CEO with a reputation for shameless publicity
If you’re fluent in American Sign Language, congratulations: you know one more language than most of the people reading this post. The rest of us? A solution to our communicative failures is on the way. A company called MotionSavvy is building a Leap Motion-equipped tablet case that can active
In some very strange news, Motorola has announced on its homepage that it will allow people to try out the Moto X in a very unique way: you’ll be able to customize your own contract-free Moto X and use it for two weeks while only paying a single cent. There are no details on this […]
Boxborough-based enterprise software company Egenera announced it has received $16 million in funding from private investment firm Comvest Partners through its Comvest Capital II/III funds. Egenera said the funds will be used to “further product innovation and aggressively drive a go-to-market
