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In many ways, plants are ideal technology hosts. It only makes sense, then, that MIT scientists want to harness that potential by augmenting our leafy friends with nanotechnology. The researchers have found that injecting nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes into a plant can extend its natural abiliti
Boxfish is one of many startups that have popped up over the last several years to help TV viewers better find shows that they’d like to watch. Now looking to extend that technology to a number of consumer electronics manufacturers, cable providers, and third-party app developers, it’s raised $7 mil
The AllCast updates just keep coming. Each introduces new functionality, but the latest release packs together more new features than most. By combining aesthetic changes with usability improvements, users of this media Chromecasting app are in for quite the treat. In the left screenshot below, we s
Using mobile devices for one-off printing tasks on office printers may not be a big deal, but Hewlett-Packard is trying to mitigate any security risk through direct wireless printing features it is bringing to enterprise printers. HP is adding NFC and Wi-Fi Direct to its new color LaserJet printers
Sina Weibo, the Chinese social network that looks and works a lot like Twitter, has started the process of going public in the United States. The micro-blogging platform is looking to raise up to $500 million in an initial public offering, though as with any IPO this is subject to change. Twitter it
For all the admirable efforts to solve the world’s problems – beating malaria, improving education access, closing the digital divide – one simple need tends to fall by the wayside: We humans have to poop, and some 2.5 billion of us don’t have the proper facilities to do so.
Back in December, rumors were swirling that Samsung was getting ready to unveil a 10.5-inch AMOLED tablet in early January. Once January came and went with no such announced, the rumors slowed. Now, SamMobile is reporting that Samsung has begun work on the rumored tablet in a real way. According to
Every year, Reporters Without Borders publishes a list of “Enemies of the Internet,”designed to draw attention to countries that disrupt the freedom of information with propaganda, surveillance, and censorship. For the very first time, that list now includes the United States of America.
The latest fundraising effort by the dogecoin community is looking to raise money to help provide water for people in drought-striken Kenya. The Doge4Water campaign is seeking to raise 40 million dogecoin by Saturday, 22 March which is World Water Day. So far the campaign has raised just north of 16
Parents logging on to what they thought was the website of their children’s school were left shocked when they were greeted by pornography instead of parents’ evening info. The confusion came after Highworth Grammar School in Ashford in Kent’s old URL, highworthgrammar.co.uk, was purchased
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group on Sunday announced its plans to make a public stock offering in the US, an event that could set a record for the US IPO of a Chinese company. The Hangzhou, China, company said in a brief statement that it has “decided to commence the process of an initial publ
The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture at GitHub came as a surprise to some, given her former defense of the startup, and her internal
