Amazon corrals FX’s Justified to exclusive Prime Instant Video deal
If Amazon’s recent foray into British period drama leaves you cold, its Prime Instant Video service now has something grittier on tap: The FX Network’s Justified. Thanks to a new deal with Sony...
View ArticlePassbook ticketing available in 13 MLB stadiums this season
Major League Baseball and Apple’s quest to banish paper ticketing received a boost last night after the former revealed that 13 stadiums would offer the latter’s Passbook integration this season....
View ArticleHow Physicists Separate Oreo Cookies
Separating Oreos is a serious business—especially for physicist David Neevel. In this video he explains how he designed and built perhaps the world’s most intricate machine for separating cookie from...
View ArticleSamsung announces Android Wallet app for tickets and coupons, opens API to...
If your heart bleeds Android, but your eyes occasionally wander in the direction of Apple’s Passbook, good news. Samsung has announced “Wallet,” a ticketing and coupon app of its own. Unveiled at the...
View ArticleSamsung Wallet is Apple’s Passbook, on Android
Samsung has just announced its new Wallet mobile payment app at the Mobile World Congress and… and it looks a hell of a lot like Apple’s Passbook. More »
View ArticleGates, Zuck and crew entice kids into programming through a short film
Kids in many parts of the world are growing up surrounded with technology, some from a very tender age. Many schools aren’t teaching much if any programming, though, which has led Code.org to make a...
View ArticleA preview of Ubuntu Touch is coming for Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei and Motorola...
After Canonical issued the alpha version of its mobile version of Ubuntu for the select Nexus devices (Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10), the company has now updated the list of upcoming...
View ArticleNFC Writer WP8 app from Nokia will help you make the best out of NFC tags
Nokia is pushing a suite of exclusive apps to differentiate their Lumia phones from the other Windows Phone handsets. The latest addition is the NFC Writer app – as the name suggests, it writes info or...
View ArticleWatson ponders careers in cooking, drug research as IBM makes it earn its keep
While mad game show skills are nice and all, IBM has started to nudge Watson toward the door to begin paying its own freight. After a recent foray into finance, the publicity-loving supercomputer has...
View ArticleChrome Super Sync Sports lets you play games with your smartphone as a...
A nifty new Chrome experiment has caught our eye recently, one which lets you and your friends use smartphones or tablets to control online games.
View ArticleChina claims its defense sites face constant US hacking attacks
China is routinely accused of launching concerted hacking campaigns against the US, many of them reportedly tied directly to the army’s Unit 61398 in Shanghai. If you believe the Ministry of Defense’s...
View ArticleTake a look inside the Mobile World Congress venue
The Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona is coming to an end. Until 2013 the event took place at Fira de Barcelona in the foot of the Montjuïc hills, but this year the exhibition has moved to the...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Try to Skydive With an Umbrella
Mary Poppins flew with a magical umbrella, but can you actually soar with one real life? Pretty much—provided you have the right umbrella, which pro skiier Eric Roner did. He captured the crazy feat...
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