Banjo App Hits One Million Users In Nine Months
April 18, 2012Think Facebook and Twitter hit critical mass fast? They’ve got nothing on ambient location app Banjo, which just hit one million users in nine months. Banjo beat out the two.
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Gmail Outage Irks Users
April 18, 2012Google scrambled Tuesday to fix an outage on the company’s popular email service Gmail that may have affected as many as 7 million users. Affected users saw an error informing.
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Anonymous Takes Down Mi6, CIA and DOJ Websites In Massive DDoS Attack
April 17, 2012Members of the hacker group Anonymous flooded Twitter today with triumphant calls of TANGO DOWN, as websites for the CIA and Department of Justice, as well as two websites for.
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Twitter’s New “Innovators Patent Agreement” Makes Yahoo “Look Like A Mean Old Drunk”
April 17, 2012Twitter announced a new, surprisingly progressive “Innovators Patent Agreement” (colloquially referred to as the “IPA”) which aims to put more control over patents back in the hands of the inventors:.
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Today’s Most Talked-About TV Is From… IKEA?
April 17, 2012[youtube id=”0Nm7-EuctOs” width=”600″ height=”350″] IKEA, the manufacturer of build-it-yourself furniture and purveyor of Swedish meatballs with an addictive potential similar to crack (I tell you, it’s something in the lingonberries).
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Facebook Returns To Its College Roots, Rolls Out Groups For Schools
April 17, 2012Last night I received a push notification from a classmate at UChicago to join the official UChicago Facebook Group. Requiring a valid uchicago.edu email address to join, the group, like.
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Raspberry Pi Ships To Warm Reviews
April 17, 2012[youtube id=”mgT3rb4uMtg” width=”600″ height=”350″] The credit card-sized Raspberry Pi Model B has finally shipped, with early reviewers praising the device’s responsiveness, value, and tiny form factor. “Raspberry Pi is just.
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Google’s Sergey Brin: Governments, Legislation, Hollywood Threaten Open Web
April 17, 2012Google co-founder Sergey Brin criticized recent legislation, media and web companies, and totalitarian governments for threatening the open internet during pointed remarks that drew on a tense year that has.
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Valve Employee Reveals “Wearable Computing” Project
April 17, 2012This week, in a rather lengthy blog post Valve employee Michael Abrash wrote about the game company’s development of what he’s calling “wearable computing.” Abrash describes the technology as a viewfinder.
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This Company Created The 2Pac Hologram At Coachella [Video]
April 17, 2012[youtube id=”DQgrce1VflI” width=”600″ height=”350″] Although news of the stunt leaked days before the performance, audience members at the Coachella music festival were astonished by a posthumous performance by late hip.
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