With court rulings as hard to predict as a substitute NFL referee’s penalty calls, it can be hard to keep track of who’s suing who in the tech world and how everyone’s getting on. Here’s a quick update on recent developments. Samsung has failed to overturn a temporary sales ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. […]
Apple knows that we consumers eat up any new version of any product they manufacture — especially when it comes to their iPhone brand. But what happens when you present an iPhone 4S to innocent, random men and women on the street, but SAY it’s the new iPhone 5? Well, Jimmy Kimmel wanted to find […]
Have you sometimes found that when you’re facing a really tough problem, an old kindergarten trick can sometimes work quite perfectly? Well apparently that can extend to quantum computers as well. At the University of Toronto, researchers have combined superconducting materials and semiconducting materials using good, wholesome two-sided Scotch tape. Quantum computing is a highly […]
This is a project that I’m backing right now. A LED light bulb that generates as much light as a traditional 60 Watt incandescent bulb, can be controlled wirelessly, lasts up to 25 years, and consumes less power than a fluocompact bulb (without all the nasty chemical), now how awesome is that? Sure, it’s a […]
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he doesn’t agree with a California court’s decision to rule in favor of the company in its patent battle with Samsung. He also attacked the entire idea of the rival lawsuits. Speaking to Bloomberg, Wozniak said: I don’t think the decision of California will hold. And I don’t agree with […]
A new semi-autonomous four legged robot by the people at Boston Dynamics: The Legged Squad Support System (LS3) is a rough-terrain robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. It is designed to carry 400 lbs of payload and travel 20 miles without refueling. LS3 has sensors that let […]
The man who hopes to become the first to drive at 1,000 mph has inspected the track where the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car will make the record attempts. Meanwhile project staff are working on the first test of a hybrid rocket engine that will be among three separate engines in the vehicle. The Bloodhound Project, based […]
It was a great day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Today’s big haps, in no particular order: Soccer gets a newer, creepier bioengineered makeover Photo: John O’Shea Synthetic soccer balls are so last century. (Replace “soccer balls” with “footballs” if you’re not American.) After making waves at last year’s Abandon Normal Devices festival with his throwback […]
This is a pretty neat innovation coming out of Japan. Lack of electricity in disasters can make the situation worse than it already is. Green House Co. Ltd. has created a solution to that problem with a lantern, which generates electricity using nothing more than carbon, magnesium rods and salt water! In the ‘GH-LED10WBW’, 350ml […]
I’d like broadband speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. I suspect you’d like 1 Gbps. And it turns out large parts of Kansas City would definitely like 1 Gbps. The difference, sadly for you and I (KC residents excepted), is that we’re not getting it any time soon while the folks of Kansas City will. […]