| R.I.P. Posterous | | Friday, February 15, 2013 11:03 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Posterous, the blogging platform acquired by Twitter early last year, announced Friday that it will be shutting down its services in April. "On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter," Posterous founder and CEO Sachin Agarwal wrote in a blog post.
|
| Goats Yelling Like Humans Will Delight Your Ears | | Friday, February 15, 2013 10:11 PM | Neha Prakash |
| All those childhood tales of goats saying "Baaaaaaa" were just plain incorrect. The noise goats make more similarly resembles the drunk guy squawking outside your window at 4 a.m. SEE ALSO: Goat Headbutts TV Reporter — Twice And, boy, are these farm animals the chatty type, as witnessed in this supercut of goats just going off.
|
| Touchscreen T-Shirts Only a Few Years Away | | Friday, February 15, 2013 9:02 PM | PSFK |
| Most people have to keep their smart phones within reach. But what if instead of having your technology an arm’s length away, it was actually on your arm? Imagine clothing with touchscreen capabilities built right into the fabric — a truly "wearable" technology. Under Armour is working on it as we speak, but the technology isn't quite there... yet.
|
| Experience the Magic of LA in This Spectacular Time-Lapse | | Friday, February 15, 2013 8:16 PM | Neha Prakash |
| From the sun to the architecture, the palm trees to the bright lights, the celebs to the beach, Los Angeles has it all. SEE ALSO: Take a Mental Time-Out With Stunning Time-Lapse of World Landscapes This video shows the glitz and the glamor of the city in stunning visuals that will have you booking a flight to SoCal in no time. Video and image courtesy of Vimeo, iVideoMaking.
|
| WeeWow Turns Your iPhone Into a Talk Box | | Friday, February 15, 2013 7:50 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Not only are we inseparable from our devices, we can make ourselves sound like machines, too. If you're a fan of autotune, there's an app for that, or, a WeeWow. WeeWow turns your iPhone into a talk box with an adapter and tubing. The device routes your speaker's sound through the tube and lets you use your lips and teeth to shape the tone. Talking like a robot has never been easier.
|
| Ubuntu for Phones Hits Developers Next Week | | Friday, February 15, 2013 7:24 PM | Christina Warren |
| While the first Ubuntu-based smartphones won't be available to the general public until October, developers will gain access to preview builds of the OS next week. Canonical — the company behind the Ubuntu project — announced that the Touch Developer Preview of Ubuntu will be available for the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 on Feb. 21, 2013.
|
| How Social Media Is Making Over the Fashion Industry | | Friday, February 15, 2013 7:13 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Technology made its mark at New York Fashion Week this year with the rise of social media on the runway. One study from eBay Deals looked into data from five social networks during NYFW and found more people are using social media for wardrobe advice, inspiration and the latest trends.
|
| The Ultimate Mashup of Movie Heartbreak | | Friday, February 15, 2013 6:29 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Now that Valentine's Day is over, you can go back to fighting with your significant other and enjoying the more sinister things in life. And what is more sinister than the brutal end of a relationship? SEE ALSO: Watch This Guy Propose — And Get Rejected No one does heartbreak better than Hollywood. So relive the most painful break-ups in cinema history with this video montage.
|
| 3D-Printed House Can Be Assembled in Just One Day | | Friday, February 15, 2013 5:52 PM | PSFK |
| Just last month, Dutch architects unveiled plans to build the world’s first 3D-printed house out of sand, with a construction time of 18 months. Now British architecture collective Softkill Design has announced that it too is planning to build a 3D-printed house, but it can be printed in three weeks and built in one day. Rather than sand, the structure, known as the ProtoHouse, will be built out of highly fibrous laser-sinted bioplastic.
|
| 3 Companies You Hate But Investors Love | | Friday, February 15, 2013 5:40 PM | Charlie White |
| There's a disconnect between companies that are popular with consumers and companies that are popular with investors. This infographic sets out to show you a microcosm of that phenomenon, picking out three companies that are loathed by many but the favorite of many investors, and three companies that are loved by consumers but might cause investors to be more wary.
|
| World's Cutest Frog Puts Internet Cats to Shame | | Friday, February 15, 2013 5:24 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Sorry, Lil' Bub and Grumpy Cat, the Internet has a new cutest animal and it doesn't even use a litter box. A little Namaqua Rain Frog we'll just dub "Bud" has the web vocalizing a collective "awwww." YouTube user Dean Boshoff posted a thirty-second clip of what is most likely the world's cutest frog chirping like a squeeky toy.
|
| Internet Activists Deliver 300,000 Anti-CISPA Signatures to Congress | | Friday, February 15, 2013 5:03 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| An army of Internet freedom activists immediately leapt into action after the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, was recently reintroduced to Congress. Among them have been Demand Progress and Fight for the Future, who this week helped 300,000 citizens send a petition against CISPA to the lawmakers behind it.
|
| Iron Man Blasts Bad Guys in Free Storybook App | | Friday, February 15, 2013 4:52 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| The whole world knows that the armored Avenger, Iron Man, is actually genius billionaire playboy Tony Stark. The high-flying superhero will land in theaters again this May in Iron Man 3, but if your child wants to read up on his adventures before that, check out the latest installment of Marvel Reads.
|
| Malware-Serving LA Times Page Went Unnoticed for 6 Weeks | | Friday, February 15, 2013 4:24 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Malicious code lived on the website of the Los Angeles Times for six weeks, clandestinely redirecting visitors to another site booby-trapped with the Blackhole exploit kit. The problem first came to the attention of security blogger Brian Krebs, who on Feb. 7 followed up on tips from readers by reaching out to his Twitter followers.
|
| How to Connect With Top Influencers in Your Industry | | Friday, February 15, 2013 4:23 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| LinkedIn may be useful for helping professionals research and connect with others in their industry, but Relationship Science hopes to go a step further by showing users how to connect with top influencers who may not even have a social media presence.
|
| 12 Bill Cosby GIFs for National Jell-O Week | | Friday, February 15, 2013 4:14 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Happy National Jell-O Week! J-E-L-L-WOAH. The jiggliest holiday this side of International Santa's Belly Day was started in 2001 by the Utah State legislature. (Fun fact: Jell-O is the official snack food of the Beehive State.) SEE ALSO: The Internet Smells Like Urine To celebrate this delicious holiday, we skipped around the Internet looking for the best GIFs featuring Jell-O's most famous spokesman, Bill Cosby.
|
| Georgia Politician Wants to Ban Lewd Photoshopping | | Friday, February 15, 2013 4:07 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| What's wrong with a little Photoshop pranking? Plenty, if you ask Georgia State Rep. Earnest Smith. Smith is calling for such mock-ups to be made illegal in his state and punishable by a $1,000 fine, after being embarrassed by a blogger who photoshopped the politician's head on a nude male porn star's body.
|
| Neighborhood Watch Moves Online With Social Site Nextdoor | | Friday, February 15, 2013 4:05 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Nextdoor, the social networking site for neighborhoods that launched in 2012, is becoming the digital version of the neighborhood watch. With Nextdoor, communities can share vital information about crime, lost pets, home repairmen and general neighborhood happenings. However 20% of Nextdoor posts deal with crime and safety.
|
| Sesame Street to Release Secret Video After 1 Billion Views | | Friday, February 15, 2013 4:00 PM | The Daily Dot |
| The Count is about to count his way to a milestone. Sesame Street is about 22 million views away from becoming the first nonprofit organization and the first U.S. children's company to reach one billion views on YouTube, Geekosystem reported. At press time, the channel's videos have 978,247,378 total views.
|
| Elon Musk vs. The Times: Why This Can't End Well for Tesla | | Friday, February 15, 2013 3:43 PM | Chris Taylor |
| "Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel." That line, often misattributed to Mark Twain, used to mean something in the glory days of newspapers. Ink was a scarce commodity, as were presses and trucks; you couldn't very well print or distribute as many copies of your version of the facts as the New York Times could. Electrons, however, are the opposite of scarce.
|
| Bionic Eye Implant Approved for U.S. Patients | | Friday, February 15, 2013 3:34 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| A prosthetic device that can restore some sight to the blind has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company that makes the device, Second Sight, based in Sylmar, Calif., can now market the retinal prosthetic to patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that can cause blindness. This is the first approved treatment for the disease in the United States.
|
| Soccer Star Comes Out on Blog | | Friday, February 15, 2013 3:17 PM | Sam Laird |
| A former U.S. national team soccer player announced he's gay in a powerful blog post, making him one of the biggest-name athletes to do so.
|
| NJ Transit Authority Should Bring Us E-Tickets, Not More Paper | | Friday, February 15, 2013 3:05 PM | Andrea Smith |
| To expand its fare payment technology, New Jersey Transit will now give you paper dollar bills in some of those vending machines that sell paper tickets. Yes, they're finally moving away from using $1 coins (which no one wants as a form of change anyway). But here's a thought: Why not bypass the change and the paper tickets altogether and move to e-tickets? I take NJ Transit trains to commute into New York City every day.
|
| The Social Psychology of the Selfie | | Friday, February 15, 2013 2:55 PM | Christine Erickson |
| The "selfie." I kind of cringe every time I hear that word, imagining Myspace-style angles, duck faces, peace signs and dirty mirrors. I'm not alone either. Many are hesitant to take and share photos of themselves, for fear of looking vain, vulnerable or being scrutinized. But still, photo sharing sites like Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr are filled with self-portraits.
|
|  |  | | | TOP STORIES TODAY TOP TOPICS | |
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق