Tag Archives: technology

Yeah I want pretty much everything in this ad. And a flying car. We were all promised flying cars, you know.

Digital music sales have plummeted since their 2005 peak.

Twitter has suspended their affiliation with UberMedia, a company that owns a broad variety of Twitter applications used to amplify the traditional user experience. UberMedia owns TweetDeck, UberTwitter, EchoFon, and Twidroyd, among other Twitter-based applications. Twitter says: We ask all developers in Twitter ecosystem to abide by a simple set of rules that are in the interests of our users, …

It should be obvious by the absence of Ken Jennings, but this is a news story about the technology, not a recap of the ongoing challenge.

A business district in Amsterdam has begun using “DNA spray,” an adhesive mist triggered by store clerks, motion detectors, or by remote camera surveillance operators during a robbery or holdup. Chemical markers injected into the mist identify the precise time and location of the incident. “The procedure is simple: during a holdup a nebula of invisible liquid with a synthetic …

The Catholic Church has launched an official confession app for the iPhone. And unsurprisingly, absolution isn’t free. The program – called Confession – went on sale last week through iTunes for $1.99. Described as “the perfect aid for every penitent”, it offers users tips and guidelines to help them with the sacrament. Now senior church officials in America have given …

An Ontario internet provider is the first in Canada to impose greatly lowered usage caps on its customers. This move comes in response to the exploding popularity of heavy-bandwidth sites like Netflix. Customers who exceed their contracted usage will page steep fees. Starting on March 1, Ontario TekSavvy members who subscribed to the 5Mbps plan have a new usage cap …

Google has launched Art Project, an interactive site allowing users to wander around the world’s great museums and zoom in on masterpieces with great detail. Pretty damn cool. And talk about an internet time suck!

The cereal brands at your grocery stores may soon be shouting and dancing at you courtesy of a new technology called eCoupling. An electric induction strip under the boxes powers the animation and records inventory levels as items are removed. Very Minority Report.

Nearly a billion more people in just ten years and almost twice as many endangered species. Embiggen for a better look. (Source)

OK, this one kinda blows my mind. (Via – The Daily What)

Using stem cell technology, scientists have been able to create male and female baby mice from two male parents. Most notably for us here, the breakthrough raises the possibility of same-sex couples having children genetically related to both parents. In the work reported today, the Behringer team manipulated fibroblasts from a male (XY) mouse fetus to produce an induced pluripotent …

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Russia Today reports: A private company has launched a spacecraft in a bold demonstration test for NASA. The Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 is carrying a capsule named Dragon. The company, known as SpaceX, hopes to place the capsule in orbit and then bring it back to Earth three hours …

Smartphone market shares stand at about a three-way tie, with third-place Android predicted by some to take first place in the next few months. Lots of wonky demographics at the link.

Apple is teasing a “huge” announcement for iTunes that will make the product “unforgettable.” Tech watchers are betting on a change to a cloud-based service in which your library would be hosted remotely, but accessible from any web-enabled device such as your iPhone. Others are guessing on a Zune-like subscription service in which you’d have access to all of iTunes …

More than 3.6M views on YouTube in just three weeks.

The commenters here do a pretty good job of explaining both sides of the chart.

After test-running the feature in some markets, this week Time-Warner Cable officially launched its free “Look Back” feature, which is a sort of On Demand function that allows you to pull up shows that have run in the previous 72 hours. That’s handy if you forgot to set your DVR or see a bunch of raves about something on Facebook. …