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Google boosts Shopping Express to better compete with Amazon

Oct 14, 2014

Google Shopping Express, rebranded to simply “Google Express” as of this morning, is no longer entirely subsidizing the costs associated...

Apple faces $350 million lawsuit from the iPod days

Oct 4, 2014

Once upon a time, music purchased in Apple's iTunes store was saddled with a DRM technology called "FairPlay." It did...

Intel apologizes from pulling ads from Gamasutra

Oct 4, 2014

When Intel pulled advertising from the business-focused gaming website Gamasutra earlier this week, it was due in large part to...

After 20 years, Yahoo has decided to kill itself

Sep 26, 2014

As part of Yahoo's ongoing mid-life crisis, the company very quietly announced today that it's killing off the original internet...

Google is testing out drones that could bring internet to remote areas

Sep 16, 2014

Man, Google really is all in on drones. After testing delivery drones as a part of its Project Wing program,...

Researchers have developed a radio that’s the size of an ant

Sep 14, 2014

This is the promise of the near future: all of your gadgets — from your smartphone to your fridge —...

Android Wear vs the Apple Watch, which is better?

Sep 11, 2014

One thing that Apple has always done exceptionally well is to make clean, intuitive user interfaces that don’t overload you...

America’s first corn-to-ethanol conversion plant just opened in Iowa

Sep 7, 2014

This week in energy we’re looking at the grand opening in Iowa of the first facility to commercially produce ethanol...

4chan has finally adopted a DMCA take-down policy

Sep 4, 2014

The 4chan forums have managed to gain a pretty bad reputation for themselves over the years, no thanks to the...

Chicago’s mayor received $100,000 in “donations” from Comcast

Sep 3, 2014

Comcast Corporation is bragging of widespread support for its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable, but the victory...

Read a physicists explanation for why your house has Wi-Fi deadzones

Sep 1, 2014

If Wi-Fi can track a heartbeat through walls, why can't I get internet in my corner bathroom? Jason Cole was...

The Somebody app sends strangers to verbally deliver messages to you

Aug 31, 2014

How do you make messaging more interactive? Perhaps by removing the phone intermediary - by adding a human intermediary. Artist,...