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Participate in The Great Brain Experiment by Downloading an App
The rest of the Great Brain Experiment inevitably makes you wonder what makes smartphone games successful.
The Smartphone Market Has Turned into the Cereal Aisle
That's why everything coming out of the world's annual smartphone bonanza in Barcelona feels like it was developed by engineers whose only orders were "More!"
Meet Roboy, the First Service Android Born with Corporate Tattoos
Want to get your company's logo on "the first truly anthropomimetic robot"? It's cheap.
Will India's $20 Android Tablet Actually Work?
A new tablet with comparable features that also runs on the Android operating system and sells for a tenth of the price—that’s just madness, right?
With the iPad Mini, Tim Cook Has Rebuilt Apple in His Image
“Make no mistake about it. This is the year for Windows,” Steve Ballmer "said in New York in September":http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2012/09/05/microsofts-ballmer-touts-the-year-for-windows-says-its-greatest-opportunity-for-developers/…
Smartphones Can (and Will) Get Smarter
Remember when the iPhone first came out? Steve Jobs was still alive, and he really knocked everybody's socks off with this candybar-sized piece of glass and metal. It's a widescreen iPod with touch controls and a revolutionary mobile phone and an Int…
Apple's Patent War on the Galaxy
Last Friday, Apple was granted a preliminary "injunction on US sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus":http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/29/3126934/apple-samsung-judge-bans-galaxy-nexus, a decision Samsung quickly appealed Sunday night arguing that Apple had “…
Sorry But Your Next Apple Thing Will Be Made by Microsoft
This is a story about software, but it begins with hardware. On Monday, Microsoft unveiled its first ever Windows PC that it built from the ground up, the new Surface tablet. It’s a bold move for a company that built an international monopoly on the…
Even in 3D, Google's New Map is Underwhelming
They look like cut-scenes from the next installment of Grand Theft Auto. It’s not. This is Google Earth, reimagined in glorious real-time 3D, available soon on your mobile phone. It’s Google at its finest, another earnest step in the company’s quest…
ONES + ZEROS: Lying is OK, Stealing Too
Ones and Zeros is Motherboard’s weekly investigation into the particle accelerator that is the internet.
Cure Loneliness With Hugvie, a Vibrating Pillow Robot
Hugvie is also equipped with its own heartbeat and a vibration system that adapts to the callers voice, becoming faster and more intense depending upon the volume and pitch of the conversation. Which makes me think of a few things people are likely t…
Carrier IQ, Big Brother's Hidden Tracker App, Must Be Stopped
Ever since the issue came to a head with Apple's "location tracking debacle":http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-tracks/ earlier this year, mobile phone carriers and manufacturers have been adamantly insisting that nothing on a mobile phone…
Bad Apps Are A Government Spending Cut We Can All Agree On
With Obama's Deficit Super Committee poised to "fail yet again":http://www.c-span.org/Events/Deficit-Super-Committee-Wont-Meet-Deadline/10737425695/ in their mission to formulate a balanced debt reduction plan, American taxpayers are starting to get
Ones and Zeros: Gas Leaks, App Leaks
_Pluto's planetary party just got bigger_ h3. One: "New Pluto Moon Discovered By Hubble Space Telescope":http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/new-pluto-moon-hubble-space-telescope_n_904578.html (Huffington Post) h3. Zero: "google kills 'lab…
As The Cloud Descends, Can Google Music Beta Make it Rain?
Yesterday Google announced "Music Beta":http://music.google.com/about. It’s essentially a service that allows to you upload your personal music collection to the cloud so you can stream it anywhere on any device when you please; keeping the media and…
