The scene outside of Y-Combinator’s summer 2011 demo day Silicon Valley startup incubator Y-Combinator held the first of two demo days for its Summer 2011 class on Tuesday, unveiling 63 new companies to investors and journalists at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. About half of the startup presentations were off the record, meaning just...
This past weekend Aviary, a startup that offers a free suite of online photo-editing tools and General Assembly, (one of the 5 coolest coworking spaces in New York City) hosted Photo Hack Day, the world’s largest photo hackathon, right here in NYC. At General Assembly, the room was packed with NY’s best developers and designers, along with other hackers from around the country....
It’s common knowledge that gaming is one of the most popular activities on the Web, but we often don’t have a good sense of what type of person a modern gamer is. A new research report from Latitude set out to answer the question: who is today’s gamer? As one participant in Latitude’s study...
China’s appetite and interest in technology shows little sign of slowing with the news that the last quarter saw the Asian giant overtake the US as the largest shipper of PCs in the world. Full details and statistics come from the IDC: Approximately 18.5 million units worth US$11.9 billion shipped in China during the quarter,...
It wasn’t long after the last week’s Amazon Web Services outage was resolved that the cloud hosting services provider had some big news. A new zone, called AWS GovCloud, was launched for the explicit purpose of giving U.S. government agencies and contractors a secure, cloud-based environment for sensitive data and applications. While this month’s...
Do we really think that Dish wants to build an LTE-Advanced mobile broadband network? I know that last night it filed a waiver asking the FCC to grant it the ability to use its satellite spectrum to deliver a combo terrestrial and satellite network, but let’s get real for a moment. This isn’t about...
If you’re familiar at all with the premise of Portal then you’ll instantly recognize the heroine of this short film as Chel, a test subject imprisoned by the Portal corporation and forced to ‘test’. No Escape differs from the game in that it’s a live action piece by filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg. This short took...
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Earlier today, for reasons too egotistical to go in to, I found myself looking back at the columns I wrote for the Guardian back in 2003. Inevitably, with industries as fast moving as media and technology, my 23-year-old self made a whole load of terrible predictions. I dismissed the fad of “cameraphones”, for example,...
Just about a week ago Apple relased its first update to OS X Lion, version 10.7.1. Today it has made that update available through the Mac App Store as well. The previous version of the 10.7.1 update was available as a standalone update only and had to be downloaded outside of the Mac App...