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Developers Dish On How iOS 6 Will Change Your Favorite Apps

We talked to iOS developers a few hours after they got the chance to download and play around with iOS 6 to get them to dish about what changes consumers can expect to see to their favorite apps.

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Can Google Show Racism In Elections?

A provocative paper makes the case that racism cost now-incumbent presidential candidate Barack Obama between three and five points during the last election.

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Get Ready For A Search Engine Right Out Of George Orwell’s 1984

In a move that’s both groundbreaking and eerily Orwellian, the University of Glasgow has announced that its begun work on a future search engine that utilizes city audio-visual sensors to answer complex queries.

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Oatmeal Creator Crashes Indiegogo To Address Lawsuit, Raises $20,000 In 64 Minutes

The creator of a popular online comic fights a lawsuit by raising money on IndieGoGo, which crashes the site.

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Turner Broadcasting Introduces Its Startup Accelerator’s Inaugural Class

Turner Broadcasting is embracing the future of digital video with the inaugural class of its new startup accelerator Media Camp.

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Can’t Find Your Keys? Ask Your Kinect Where They Are

If you’re prone to misplacing items around the house and also a Kinect owner, computer science researchers at the University of Virginia have an interesting new solution for you.

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Surgeons Go Hands-Free With Microsoft’s Kinect

Microsoft’s Kinect motion camera isn’t just a gaming tool anymore. Doctors in the UK have been using it to control medical imaging during surgical procedures — a task that, up until now, had to be carried out through an assistant.

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Art Lab: MoMA’s Second Mobile App Encourages Learning Through Creation

After the introduction of its first iPhone app back in 2010, New York’s Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new kind of interactive art app for the iPad called Art Lab.

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Is Google A ‘Brand Killer’?

Google fired back today against charges that its search policies and market dominance make the company a “brand killer,” able to bury rivals by making subtle changes to the algorithm that ranks pages, and letting clients with fat wallets buy better rankings.

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Absinthe, Ovaltine, And Google Product Search. Soon To Be Renamed Again.

Product Search is one of the odd Google services that’s always been kind of crummy, but has never been canceled or put on the back burner.

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