Google is constantly beefing up its search results. You can now find out who in your social network has +1′d a page, who has shared it on Google+, and even makes it easy to add bloggers to your Google+ circles right from your search results. If you want to find out a bit more...
It’s the final day of our ten-day investor gift guide series. We’ve asked ten venture capitalists and angel investors for their favorite apps, technology and gadgets. We’ll be featuring a master list of the coolest gift ideas on Monday. We asked Ben Lerer of Lerer Ventures and Thrillist to kick off the series. We’ve...
With one part robot, and all parts attitiude, the 2-XL robot will make you feel like an absolute moron if you don’t answer its questions correctly: Imagine the horror of giving this toy to your child, and coming to find out that they don’t know who the first person to step on the moon...
When Microsoft premiered Silverlight as something called WPF/E in 2007, it was with the idea of enabling developers to build “rich Internet applications,” and to conceivably run them outside of browsers, and on platforms other than Windows. The “A” in “RIA” stood for “applications” – the full word, the complete class that also includes...
I’ve always said that if you’re going to be shooting down any jets (virtually of course), you should do it with some panache. It looks like Battlefield 3 player Stun_gravy took that advice to heart, with this dramatic takedown of an ingame opponent. Probably the best 30 seconds you’ll watch all day. The A-Team...
Google launched a news-reading app called Currents on Thursday, something it has been working on for some time — ever since it was a much-rumored skunkworks project called Propeller — and much of the coverage of the new app has called it a challenger to existing tablet and iPhone news-readers like Flipboard and Zite....
If I had to pick one word to describe Rachel Shechtman it would be trendy. Not trendy in the your-Louboutin-heels-go-so-well-with-your-Prada-purse are trendy, but like the way helvetica, Internet TV and hybrid cars are trendy. (For the record Rachel also dresses very well.) For the past decade, she’s taken retail consulting to a new level, working...
Sometimes you get bored on the Internet because everything seems to look and sound the same, and then you see something like this that reminds you that life is grand on the web. We know that Twitter, Facebook, Apple, and Google are all in big tech battles to find out who will reign supreme...
It’s amazing how technology continuously weaves itself into every facet of society — even the performing arts. The following video, “Seraph,” is a collaboration between CSAIL (the largest Interdepartmental lab at MIT) and the Pilobolus modern dance company. Perhaps the highest form of art is the collaboration between man and machine. If not, at least it’s...
Apple has placed CFO Peter Oppenheimer in charge of its retail division while it continues to search for a replacement for Ron Johnson, reports 9to5Mac. Johnson left the company in November to become the new CEO of J.C. Penney. According to sources with knowledge of the search for a replacement, Oppenheimer has been drafted...