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You’ve heard that Google is working on computerized glasses. They’re called Google Glass, and developers can already buy them. It turns out Microsoft is working on something similar. It filed some patents on the project and Unwired View dug them up. There’s a big difference between what Microsoft is working on and Google Glass, though. The...
There’s a South Pacific island positioned midway between Australia and New Caledonia featured on various marine charts, world maps, and has appeared in publications since at least the year 2000. It’s listed as Sandy Island on Google Maps and Google Earth, and yet Australian scientists have just discovered it doesn’t exist. As part of...
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When George Entwistle gave his first speech to BBC staff after becoming director general in September, he delighted many in the digital media sector. For some years now, BBC Online has approached online much as a medium to deliver conventional broadcast content, through iPlayer — in many ways, far less ambitious than the strategy...
Call them makers, hackers DIYers or nerds, but I’ve been spending more time hanging out with and talking to people who are building cool products on Kickstarter, helping startups understand the ins and outs of product design and people who are combining existing tech in cool new ways. So I’ve asked a subset of...
A former Apple engineer is the latest to argue that the giant consumer-electronics company he used to work for should acquire Twitter, an argument that has been made a number of times in the past year or so. But Patrick Gibson — who worked on the original iPad — isn’t saying that Apple should...
It’s Thanksgiving for us here in the U.S. of Gorging On Turkey and we wanted to give thanks for you, our dear audience. It’s your constant readership and semi-trollish comments that keep us waking up in the morning and keep us from going to sleep at night. To thank you, we want to give...