A fantastic explanation of the Who, what, and why of the Internet by German information designer Philipp Dettmer. Nuclear war, cat gifs and reddit? Wait, what? Who was the genius who came up with all of that? The internet is such a crucial tool in our daily lives today that we hardly remember that it […]
From the folks over at Hoot Suite, a parody of the Game of Thrones intro featuring all the current popular social networks: At HootSuite we’re big fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones and with the 4th season of GoT finally here we wanted to do our own rendition of the iconic opening titles. After all, […]
The man who revolutionized the way hard drives work has been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize, an honor awarded only every second year. Stuart Parkin received the prize of one million euros (approximately US$1.39 million) from Technology Academy Finland, a partnership of industry and government in the country. It’s sometimes described as the tech equivalent […]
Critics of the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable argue it will hurt competition in the TV industry. But Comcast says the deal will be good for consumers when you look at the wider communications market. The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing the merger because it would give the firms a combined share […]
Researchers at Harvard and Northeastern say Google’s Flu Trends service, which tries to predict flu outbreaks based on search activity, has become less reliable over time. They say the effects of even small changes such as those to Google’s own autosuggest tool may have been allowed to mount up and call it a lesson for […]
Kim Novak’s appearance at the Oscars wearing no make up has led to a craze that’s raised more than $12 million for a cancer charity — and caused some confusion with polar bears. Novak’s appearance sparked some media criticism from folk who seemed confused that an 81-year-old without makeup looked different to how she once […]
Many of us spend hours a day on the Internet, and whenever we have a question, it’s easy to go to Google to quickly look up information. Is this changing the way our memory works? Anthony is here to explain how living in a world of constant information is affecting us. [DNews | Via LS]
One of the breakout stars from this year’s SXSW festival took his passion for music and his desire to create a new collaborative experience for musicians and the entire music industry to a deeper, more enriching level. MIT grad Philip Cohen has created a new cloud-based platform that transforms the way music is created. AudioCommon […]
A ruling this week means Google will have a much easier job of defending claims that it broke the law by scanning Gmail accounts. A range of people had looked to sue Google over the way it used automated scanning of messages both to produce targeted advertising that appears at the top of the inbox, […]
The American pay-TV industry as a whole has had an overall drop in subscribers for the first time. But even if it’s evidence of “cord-cutting,” the firms involved haven’t really lost out much. There have been a few cases before where individual cable firms have had a quarterly decline in pay-TV subscribers. Now Leichtman Research […]