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In addition to the expected launch of iOS5 and the latest version of OS X, Apple has a few surprises up its sleeve today. One of which is a store for buying tones to use when you receive text messages or alerts. It’s built into the on-device iTunes app, offering “an incredible spectrum of music...
We posted about DNA 11′s DNA-based art way back in 2008 — basically, you send in a DNA sample, they perform an electrophoretic analysis, and then print a picture of the resulting gel on a nice little bit of canvas or in a glass frame. But between the big prints and the little prints,...
If there’s ever been any doubt that Apple is dead serious about movies, this should help to quell the thoughts. Apple has just released a brand new app for iOS (4.3 or higher) called iTunes Movie Trailers that brings movie HD movie trailers to your pocket. Access hundreds of movie trailers, clips, behind-the-scenes featurettes,...
Apple’s iOS 5 is available now and includes a host of great new features. Among these, apps like Notification Center, Reminders, iMessage, and Cards completely destroy some of the most popular third party apps out there. We’ve put together a list of the third party apps that will likely see their sales crash and...
Screenshot of Foursquare 4.0 Radar (click to enlarge) Foursquare on Wednesday launched a new version of its mobile application for the iPhone, Foursquare 4.0. The biggest change in Foursquare 4.0 is the addition of an opt-in feature called Radar, which is made possible by the latest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS...
One day it could be commonplace for a regular person to invest in, and make money by putting solar panels on rooftops. At least, that’s the idea behind startup Solar Mosaic, which has built a Kickstarter-style platform that’s starting to bring together peer-to-peer lenders who want to make loans for solar projects in underserved...
It was only a few years ago that 23andMe and other personal genomics companies began to fulfill the futurisitic promise of allowing consumers to test their own DNA for hundreds (rather than hundreds of thousands) of dollars. And now it won’t be long until these screens become far more exhaustive, with such tests comprising...
Cloud-based DNA-sequencing specialist DNAnexus has closed a $15 million second round led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech. Elsewhere, we learned Wednesday that agribusiness giant Monsanto has deployed Cloudant’s NoSQL database as the underpinning of the company’s genomics system. Big data technologies, it seems, can now include biotech — and genomics, specifically — among...
Apple is set to launch iOS 5 today and you can expect the update to pop up in iTunes any time now. The update, arguably the most significant one in iOS’s history, includes a new notification system, iMessage, Newsstand, Reminders, Twitter integration and freedom from the computer, among 200+ features in all. But what...