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When was the last time you went to a library? If you have the standard gadgets that many households in the country have, you might not ever need to go to the library at all. In the next half decade, all of that could change. I love looking at old pictures of libraries. I’m always […]
If you want to get a look at the way your city will be operated in the future, you just have to go to San Francisco for a little while. The guinea pig city is a glimpse into the future of other cities around the country. Silicon Valley Internet startups aren’t always in the bits […]
It’s great that video games are getting bigger, more complex, and with better graphics. However, there’s a challenge. Downloading them might make you feel like you’re trying to download a movie through a dial-up internet connection. Sony UK Managing Director Fergal Gara caused a bi
Dropbox isn’t satisfied with just keeping all of the pictures you upload to your computer. They want screenshots and everything else as well. They want to be your picture hub and it might just be working. Dropbox already lets you automatically upload your photos and videos to the cloud, but no
The big players stepped up early on because they were expected to. Now, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook will be joined by Foursquare, Twilio, and Automattic in the fight against secret data requests from the government. Today or tomorrow, the U.S. Justice Department is expected to file a brief with
He’s crazy, he’s brilliant, and he has a plan to fight the battle for the people against the evils of the NSA. He’s John McAfee and he’s ready to fight the good fight. From the mind of eccentric billionaire John McAfee — founder of McAfee Antivirus — comes a “new and revoluti
Life patterns are within the hands of the NSA regardless of whether you’re a person of interest or not according to further revelations about the government’s internal surveillance program. The National Security Agency is storing the online metadata of millions of internet users for up t
The shift that has been happening in the gaming industry is towards fewer, proven titles rather than a lot of small or midsized titles. We documented our thoughts on the matter in “Why GTAV’s success is bad for gaming.” Now, here’s another perspective: Tens of millions of peo
Around 3,000 people working in the television division for Toshiba will be cut as that portion of their business is failing miserably. Toshiba said it would increase outsourced production to 70 percent from 40 percent and reduce its global staff in the division by 3,000, with two-thirds of those pos
The rise of tablets and other mobile devices are affecting the sales of PCs. Intel knows that. They were just hoping that it hadn’t hit the back-to-school bump that they always get. It did. Perhaps this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, given that sales of personal computers have in recent
There are some good things about the website that is currently off the radar, politically speaking, but that may be a central point of attack in the coming weeks. Then again, there are bad parts to it as well. Tomorrow, for the first time, Americans will be able to easily compare health insurance pl
Leave it to the brains at MIT to take a technology in its infancy and advance it ahead a few steps. That’s what they’ve done with their new 3D printing technique. How do you fit a 50-foot-long (15 metres) chain into a 5-inch (12 centimetres) box? It sounds like a brainteaser you might ge
