Will libraries evolve by 2020?
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...
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A future of many San Franciscos
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....
Game files are growing faster than internet speeds
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...
Dropbox wants all of your pictures
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...
Is this the new iPad 5?
It could be the real thing. It's possibly an elaborate hoax. Either way, the iPhone launch is so far behind us that we barely even remember what their numbers were....
Grand Theft Auto Online will be a rocky launch
Don't take our word for it. Rockstar North didn't expect their biggest game ever to be as huge as it has been in the early going and are fearful that...
11,000 Microsoft Surface 2s purchased for Delta pilots
This is a very big win for Microsoft that desperately needed some positive buzz for their next generation tablet. Delta pilots will be turning in their bulky charts and paperwork...
Google makes HTML5 designing easy
Bad news for ad designers for HTML5. Google is trying to take your job and put it in the hands of novices. Don't worry. It won't take them long to...
More big tech names join the fight for transparency
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...
Provo. Google Fiber. October.
Utah appears to be the next home for Google Fiber, the fastest internet this side of the Grand Canyon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QU5lHzgvK0 The energy that Google has harnessed around its fiber effort...
John McAfee versus the NSA
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...
Facebook opens graph search to posts and status updates
Graph search has had a lackluster launch so far. Few are using it with confidence thinking they can find what they really want. Now, it will include status updates and...
Secret files – codenamed Marina – show NSA keeps metadata for a year
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...
Will you get “stitched up” on Facebook?
Be careful what you like and how you comment on Facebook. More specifically, be careful whose posts you engage with. The editing feature on Facebook may have you "stitched up"....
Big games are bigger than ever
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...
Toshiba to chop TV division staff in half
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...
Twitter beats Facebook in #BreakingBad buzz
People are discussing real-time entertainment such as last night's Breaking Bad series finale on Twitter more than Facebook. Despite being much bigger by hundreds of millions of users and having...
Intel mourns the death of back-to-school PC purchases
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...
Obamacare price comparison site gets mixed reviews
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...
Windows Phone is getting more popular… in Europe
It's a bigger win than most realize. The Nokia deal seems to already be paying off. As you might expect, new research out today shows that Android is Europe's favourite...