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The Terrafungia Transition has been under development since 2006 and flying since 2009, however, it was only a month ago that a street-legal version of the $279,000 flying car took flight again. Following approval by the US National Highway Traffic
Microsoft, in a stament obtained by Joystiq. has said that it is “conducting a thorough investigation” into claims from researchers that information can be swiped from used Xbok 360 consoles with simple molding tools. Microsoft claims that the “Xbox is
Suitland, Maryland is the the Smithsonian’s store area for thousands of Antarctic meteorites, and it’s done in such a way that they will be preserved for future generations.
Google Map has added “typical traffic” to it’s system, a feature that lets you pick a day and time to see what the traffic has looked like over time, so you can expect the degree of traffic at any given
Earlier in the day, Sprint announced an April 12th preorder date for its LG Viper 4G, one if its first LTE devices to enter the market. Sprint is known to be one of the bew that still offer unlimited data
The US Army has a new recruit, Hewlett-Packard. Today, the Palo Alto company has announced that it has signed a $249 million contract to provide the Department of Defense and other federal agencies with enterprise level cloud computing services.
It looks like Facebook isn’t taking things lying down when it comes to Yahoo. The social network giant has filed a countersuit against the website in the light of a patent infringement claim made by Yahoo.
The joint venture, Japan Display, that agreed on its formalities in November, has now started operation. While Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi have a 10% stake in the business, the core investment comes from the government-backed INCJ.
Sony is set to make some clearcut statements on its plans to bring Google TV to Europe. According to financial paper, Les Echos, Sony France’s marketing director has said that two devices, a set-top box priced at roughly $255 and
Facebook has just formed an odd partnership with Opower, launching a new social energy app that taps into technology from the National Resources Defense Council and Opower.
A new trampoline-based gaming system is the latest in natural user interfaces, and it’s one heck of a laugh. Designed to ‘make exercise less intimidating’ and reduce injuries from moving around on a hard floor, the trampoline is placed atop
Not to be left behind after President Obama’s Facebook profile update, the White House has one ahead to add the timeline feature to it’s profile as well. The new page comes with a history of the building and its occupants,
977 F Street NW, Washington, DC. That is going to be the address of the first North American retail store of the super high end German camera maker Leica. The store will be officially opened on May 2nd and 3rd,
The Met Office, UK’s national weather service, is hoping to expand its range well beyond Britain or even Earth for that matter. The Met Office and a team from the University of Exeter have announced that they will begin forecasting
Due to the difficult economic climate and changes in the video game market in the U.S. and Europe, Sega Sammy has said this morning that it expects Sega’s operating losses for the previous year to hit billions of yen, and
Research in Motion may not be in its best possible shape, but the BlackBerry brand still holds undeniable value in certain markets, which only increases the possibility of it becoming a target for foreign acquisition.
In an interview with The Daily Dot, Steve, a self-described 24 year old man elaborates his dubious bot-powered spam business that clutters Pinterest with recommendations for random things from dressed to boats from bogus accounts, and makes thousands of dollars
Sony has a been forced to remove PSP titles from the PlayStation Store in an attempt to close security holes in the PS Vita. The problem creating titles, Motorstorm : Arctic Edge (named Raging Ice in Japan) and Everybody’s Tennis,
Adobe seems to be trying extremely hard to remain relevant in the worked of gaming. Today, they announced Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, which strengthen Adobe’s goal to enable ‘console quality’ games like Shadowgun on your web browser.
Since 2005, Google has sponsored a “Summer of Code”, a program where students are given paid internships to work on open source projects. The program operates in a three-phase cycle. First, organizations and mentors submit proposals for their projects, then,
England is falling behind the US, Asian nations and the rest of Europe in the installation of 4G LTE networks. The 800MHz spectrum has been cleared for the purpose, but a scuffle between carries and regulator Ofcom has caused numerous
Have you ever wanted more Twitter followers than Lady Gaga? Twitter plugin Fame may now make that dream come true. After connecting to the service, Fame will automatically enter the user in a draw made once a day. By default,
US President Barack Obama is one world leader that successfully managed to use the web and social media to accomplish his political goals, and he’s now added Pintetest to his social media portfolio.
Facebook seems to have solved a problem many of its users face; sort and filter out the feeds you want and don’t want to see. The ‘Acquaintance List’ suggestion box points out people you may not want to hear much
Israel has passed a law this week requiring publications to note when an image has been edited to make a model look thinner, and also bans the feature of underweight models in advertisements. However, it isn’t clear how this law
NASCAR driver Mark Martin saw his twitter account going very erratic after clicking on a link this past weekend. All his tweets were deleted, his password was reset and his screen name was changed to ‘EPICSWAGG’. But kudos to the people
Some iOS app developers have reported that Apple has begun rejecting apps that access a device’s unique identifier (UIDID), a move that was initially brought up when Apple disapproved the UDID in iOS 5 back in August of last year.
After the success of the Angry Birds franchise, it looks like every other developer is jumping on the bandwagon. Draw Something popped out of nowhere in February 2012, turning into the faster growing social gaming sensation around.
According to Facebook, the social networking giant has racked up over 10 million active users in Japan, a number that is double of what was reported only six months ago.
A few days after the Associated Press investigated employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords in order to perform background checks, the social networking giant has responded in a blog post. In the blog, Facebook starts by repeated its motto