When the App Store was fresh and new, you’d see different apps pop up in the Top Apps list. Those Top Apps lists were actually usable. But ever since Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja and whatever else decided to squat down, it’s the same damn apps over and over. So how popular does an app have to be to crack these lists? Read more…
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How Many Apps Does an App Need to Sell to Be in the Top Apps List?
We transmit almost a thousand petabytes of data over the ‘nets every month—an amount that’s growing exponentially, thanks to your narcissistic obsession with Snapchat. In fact, we’re quickly closing in on the limits of how much data optical fiber can transmit. Luckily, scientists at Boston University recently unveiled what could be the next generation of bandwidth tech. Read more…
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Corkscrew Lasers Are About to Revolutionize Internet Bandwidth
Our eyeballs are some of our more delicate organs, and the mere thought of them having to be sliced open for surgery is unsettling. So researchers at the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich have created a magnetically-guided microbot , barely larger than a few human hairs, that can be embedded in the eye and externally controlled to perform delicate surgery without any part of the patient having to be sliced open. Read more…
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Magnetic Microbots Perform Eye Surgery Without a Single Incision
In iOS 7, Siri’s voice is becoming less robotic and more human (we’ll have to wait and see if she’s more useful). One of those improvements will be how she pronounces names. Instead of butchering your name or choppily spelling out letters of your friends’ names, she’ll be able to be ‘taught’ what the correct pronunciation is. Read more…
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Siri Actually Cares How Names Are Pronounced in iOS 7
A million of anything is pretty much always an insanely impossible number. Winning a million dollars, having a million Twitter followers, selling a million products—anything done a million times is something to be proud of. But maybe not getting your song streamed on Pandora a million times. All you get sometimes is 16 measly dollars. Or $16.89 to be exact. Read more…
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An Artist Got 16 Bucks for a Song That Pandora Streamed a Million Times
Adobe’s shift to cloud-based software provision for its new Creative Cloud design suite was partly motivated by anti-piracy concerns. Which, of course, means… it’s already been pirated. Read more…
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Adobe’s Creative Cloud Has Already Been Pirated
A couple of months ago, Seiki announced a 50-inch 4K TV with a suggested MSRP of $1500—which is still an absurd price point for a 4K TV. The price has continued to drop, and now Amazon’s selling it for $1081. Read more…
If you’ve got a powerful desktop, it probably sounds like a jet engine. You could opt for watercooling, but if you stick with fans you’re out of luck. They’re just loud. Until you bolt on some active noise canceling . Read more…
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First Active Noise-Canceling Computer Fan Will Finally Shut Your Computer Up
Good news AT&T iPhone owners, you’re getting a push-to-talk app, a first for the iPhone in the US! Whether non-corporate customers will be privy to the app is anyone’s guess. The AP has clarified its original story and now says the app will not work unless it’s been properly integrated by both AT&T and its corporate customers. [ AP ] Read more…
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Good news AT&T iPhone owners, you're getting a push-to-talk app, a first for the iPhone in the US!
3D printers just got a little more mainstream. Amazon has now opened its own 3D Printer page for the sale of printers and filaments so you can get all that jazz shipped right to your door with the greatest of ease . Read more…
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Amazon Has a 3D Printer Section Now