August 2011
93 Stories
NASA visualization of a black hole devouring a star
In late March 2011, NASA's Swift satellite alerted astronomers to intense and unusual high-energy flares from a new source in...
Voice calls are still the biggest complaint of cell users
J.D. Power and Associates is reporting in their U.S. 2011 Wireless Network Quality Performance Study that performance levels for networks...
3/4 of US states do not have solar incentives
When it comes to renewable energy, solar is often considered the easiest to acquire. The sun is a source of...
Nintendo gives up, defers to Google
Companies are often no longer the experts about their own products. The internet has allowed us to find information like...
Sony introduces world’s first recordable binoculars
Although the $1,400 price tag for Sony’s all-new high-end binoculars is a bit steep, the DEV-3 and DEV-5 are anything...
What Steve Jobs really brought to Apple
As the man most responsible for the success of the largest tech company in the world steps down for medical...
I know the Steve Jobs story is big, but @techmeme – seriously?
This is huge news. It has been huge news for a while ever since we found out that the co-founder...
Live-action Portal video is pretty darn epic
Ever since the Portal phenomenon started in 2007, memes, strategy groups, and a sequel have popped up. What started out...
Mind-Blowing fact: there were over 900 million mentions of the Copa America Tournament on Twitter
If the statistic is true (and there's no reason to believe otherwise - heck, it's on the internet!), then there...
The social evolution of gaming
Gaming was once ripe with solitude and individualism. Sure, there were multiplayer games, but that required people to be playing...
Billabong V1 wetsuit: safer surfing for brahs everywhere
As sports go, surfing is one that has always had the stigma of being both relatively safe and potentially deadly....
The Sprint iPhone
Whether it's a reality or simply another example of the fast-turning iPhone 5 rumor mill, it's news either way: Sprint...
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