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Shape of Sounds Calorie Counter Now Pays You to Count Calories
Shape of Sound have updated their Calorie Counter 1.2 to include support for the AchieveMint service to reward healthy activities with cash prizes. Every time a registered user enters the calories they eat they will not just be monitoring their food intake, but also fill up their wallet. The Calorie Counter itself is designed to [...]Show More Summary
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 headed to Three UK
First UK network to confirm it'll carry Samsung's 6.3-incher Three UK is the first (and so far only) major UK network to confirm plans to launch the 6.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega. The Mega 6.3, which dwarfs even the Galaxy Note 2, packs a 720p display resolution, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and the latest TouchWiz UI. Show More Summary
Capture an Unexpected Pair for Our Vine Challenge
Chicken and waffles for breakfast, Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl as a couple in Knocked Up, Snoop Lion and Miley Cyrus teaming up for a reggae song: some things shouldn't work — yet, they totally do. For our vine challenge, we wantShow More Summary
Microsoft's new ad slams Siri hard
Microsoft has released a new ad featuring the Windows 8 ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet and an iPad. The commercial slams the iPad pretty hard by picking and choosing examples of things the iPad can't do that Windows 8 tablet can, like live updating of tile apps, its inability to use multiple apps at once, and lack of Microsoft PowerPoint support. Show More Summary
Weimaresque Hyperinflation Is Ravaging One Of The World's Most Popular Video Games
As virtual fantasy worlds go, Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 is particularly foreboding. In this multiplayer online game played by millions, witch doctors, demon hunters, and other character types duke it out in a war between angels and demons in a dark world called Sanctuary. Show More Summary
Rodeo Games's Turn-Based Strategy Title 'Warhammer Quest' Due Out Next Week
According to Wikipedia, "Snotlings" are cousins of Goblins and Orks. They're smaller and are used by their much larger brethren as "cannon fodder, food, or cannon missiles." You can imagine tough life must be for these little dudes, but you'll probably find yourself being an even bigger bully to them when you get your hands [...]
Microsoft turns Siri against Apple in hilarious new Windows 8 ad
After coming out swinging a few days back with a Surface ad that focused on Office, Microsoft has a new ad that confronts the iPad head-on. And here’s the crazy part: it’s surprisingly amusing. The commercial is a takeoff of Apple’s iPad Mini piano commercial. Show More Summary
Microsoft Turns Siri Against Apple in New Ad
The Microsoft-Apple rivalry is heating up again
In a new 30-second ad for Windows 8, Microsoft manages to skewer the iPad, Siri and Apple's promotional strategy
The ad shows the iPad and a Windows 8 tablet side-by-side with Siri repeatedly apologizing for not being able to do what Microsoft's tablet can. Show More Summary
Heads up: 'Angry Birds Space' Is Free
If you're among the, like, 12 people who don't own Angry Birds Space [Free / Free (HD)], now's an awesome time to fix that. The outer space-themed take on the series is free to download across iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You got zero dollars, right? Get clicking! My favorite thing to do in Space [...]
LED Etch-a-Sketch built without a microcontroller
This project is a wonderful example of what can be accomplished with a rather complicated logic circuit. It’s an Etch-a-Sketch made from a 16×16 LED grid. That in itself is only somewhat interesting. But when hearing about the features and that it is driven by logic chips we were unable to dream up how it was designed. There’s no … Read the rest
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton: Empowering America's Rising Workforce--Latina Girls--in Computing and Innovation
It recently came to my attention, that throughout the nation, young men and women who are Latino are, unfortunately, caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Peek at the best-looking PlayStation 4 mockup yet
A mockup of the PS4. (Credit: Andy Gilleand) When Sony has a secret up its sleeve, the company loves to tease. If you missed last week's video enigma, Sony revealed very brief pictures of the mysterious PlayStation 4 hardware, leaving gamers in the dark about what the highly anticipated gaming console will look like. Show More Summary
New Microsoft video slams the iPad on multitasking, PowerPoint and price
A new Windows video (presumably a TV commercial) knocks the iPad over multitasking, its lack of a PowerPoint app and the price of the 64GB configuration.
Out Now: 'Combo Crew', 'Poker Night 2', 'Epic', 'Stickman Tennis', 'Zombie Fish Tank' and Much More
It's another Wednesday evening here in the US, which means that it's another batch of new iOS game releases. Tonight is a pretty extensive list, with a little something for everybody. Telltale's odd and awesome looking poker game Poker Night 2, which features a mashup of characters from a number of cool games, made a [...]
Teen's Invention Could Create 20-Second Phone Charge
Tech manufacturers that boast how fast their devices can juice up might want to listen up: A California teen has developed a super-capacitor that could lead to a 20- to 30-second phone charge.
Super-capacitors are energy-storage devices that have a long cycle life, and have the potential to store a lot of energy per unit volume. Show More Summary
Microsoft Makes Fun Of The iPad In Its Best Windows 8 Ad Yet (MSFT, AAPL)
Microsoft is taking the fight right to Apple and the iPad in a new commercial. In the spot, embedded below, Microsoft uses Apple's Siri to highlight things that the iPad can not do that a Windows 8 tablet can do. Interestingly, it's not an ad for Microsoft's Surface tablet. Show More Summary
Tarun Wadhwa: Beyond Sexting: We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication
The Internet wasn't built with security in mind, and we're still dealing with the consequences of that. The next generations are going to be the ones who pay the true cost of the design decisions we make today.
Jayson DeMers: 5 Ways to Prepare for the Release of Call of Duty: Ghosts
Identify which store will be the go-to spot to score the game first and consider the weather conditions.
Mobile Online RPG 'Ultima Forever' Hits the Canadian App Store
Details for a free-to-play Ultima game coming to PC and iOS courtesy of EA Mythic surfaced all the way back in July of last year, and the following month we got a few more details on the game, known officially as Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, by way of an interview with one of the [...]
Portland, Oregon rejects drinking water fluoridation by wide margin
Public health measure goes down amid vague concerns about safety and purity.
