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Researchers at Cornell University have successfully fabricated a working loudspeaker using a 3D printer. Their work represents one of the first times a complete electronics device has been printed from scratch to a working product. From the sound of it, it’s not a very good speaker. But then,
Yahoo has acquired PeerCDN, a small California-based startup that aims to reduce bandwidth costs for companies’ servers while decreasing content delivery response times. It is unclear what the acquisition will bring to Yahoo, though PeerCDN alludes to its love of Web technologies in its blog post on
Amazon made waves with its Amazon Air drone delivery concept, and a video of a recent test flight really brought that concept to life. Now robotics startup and iPhone-enabled toy maker Sphero has a concept of its own to reveal, complete with a shot-for-shot remake of the original video by the online
Dish’s attempts to disrupt Sprint’s buyout with SoftBank may not have come to fruition, but apparently that doesn’t mean the two companies can’t make up and sign a deal. The two are teaming up to test out broadband service that pick ups wireless signals from Sprint’s 4G
Amazon is the future of retail in America. Like its biggest competitors, it is not unionized. But that could change soon. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has won the right to hold a union vote among 30 technicians working at an Amazon center in Delaware. Amazon.com’
PayPal is showing that it’s serious about supporting developers. Today, the company announced that it has acquired mobile platform StackMob in a move that will bolster its efforts to accelerate adoption of its payment system within apps. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but we do know that
Samsung is planing to release a total of four new tablets in the first quarter of 2014 alone in an apparent effort to improve upon the gains that it’s made over the last year in global tablet sales. Samsung’s ambition of grabbing a larger pie of the tablet market share next year has been reported an
Amazon has purchased GoPago, a San Francisco-based tablet point-of-sale and mobile payment startup. GoPago’s platform allows users to pre-pay for goods at a participating business with a mobile app, and works as a Square-like point-of-sale system for businesses. The terms of the deal have not been d
Sprint has rolled out 4G LTE service in 70 new markets this month. While still lagging behind Verizon and AT&T in regards to total coverage within North America, the addition of major markets like San Diego, St. Louis and Orlando as well as many other areas will potentially help Sprint regain ma
The revelation of the of the NSA’s spying has created a chain reaction across the globe as numerous countries begin developing their own anti-spying countermeasures. Countries ranging from France to Finland have started responding to NSA revelations in different ways, ranging from new fiber op
Scientists from the University of Singapore could very well have come up with a more refined invisibility solution, calling it a “beam of darkness” which will be able to envelop objects, where in turn, it would make them invisible to the naked eye. Researchers at the National University of Singapore
The city and county of San Francisco teamed up with Earthlink and Google nearly a decade ago to build what was planned as a citywide Wi-Fi network, only to see Earthlink retreat from its municipal Wi-Fi business in 2007. The citywide system was never built. Now San Francisco is taking another shot a
