Apple Announcing Plans For $100b Cash Balance Tomorrow
Apple will be holding a press conference to announce its plans for the $100 billion of cash balance they've been sitting on for a while.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Demands A #Penny4NASA To Dream For The Future
The final mission of the space program, launched in July 8th 2011, left a significant void in the hearts and minds of anybody who was fascinated by the discoveries of the world beyond our own. But Ph.D astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has begged to differ, claiming that America's encouragement and interest in space exploration has been slowly dying off way before the previous manned spaceflight.
Canon 5D Mark II Used With 93-Year-Old Lens
For anybody who believes that instagram is an adequate photographical meeting point between modern technology and vintage style, this Canon 5D Mark II with a lens from 1919 attached would beg to differ.
Gizmodo Films Co-Workers Gushing Over The 'New iPad' (It's Really An iPad 2)
Though revisions and re-launches of older hardware models is nothing new, at the current pace companies are getting through iterations, there is a definite feeling creeping in of feeling burnt-out by incremental updates to hardware/software or a combination of the two. Apple's new iPad will quite deservedly draw many people in with its super-crisp retina display (a 'resolution' in tablet PC's, as many are putting it), slightly better camera (who really takes photos or videos with their unwieldy iPad anyway), admittedly more powerful processor and 4G capabilities (the UK has no networks using such connectivity). But is that enough of a reason to make the jump from the iPad, let alone the iPad 2?
Scientists Build Artificial Bones Using Lego
Researchers at Cambridge University have used Lego Mindstorms robotics kits for something more practical than we've created, forming a fully automated production line for the creation of artificial bones.
Sky's 'F1 Race Control' For iPad Puts You In Control Of How You Watch The Race Unfold
F1 fans listen up! If you weren’t already beside yourself with excitement awaiting the first grand prix of the season at Melbourne this weekend, the lovely people at Sky (who hold the rights to every F1 race of the season, lest we forget) have unveiled a superb revamped Sky Sports for iPad app that comes packed to the rafters with a range of features for race day.
Russell Brand Arrested For Paying “Tribute” To The Late Steve Jobs
Comedian, actor and self-confessed playboy Russell Brand was arrested yesterday by police in New Orleans on a charge of criminal damage to property valued at $700 (£450). The property in question? A paparazzi photographer’s iPhone, which bore the brunt of Brand’s apparently unprovoked attack after the actor took it upon himself to ‘grab’ the phone from the man and proceeded to throw it through the nearby window of a law firm as “a tribute” to the late Steve Jobs, ex Apple boss.FBI Warrant To Get Google To Unlock Pimp's Smartphone Approved
A San Diego court judge has approved the FBI's request that Google submits all the information stored on a pimp's Android phone, including pattern lock code and other sensitive data you'd think was secure just to yourself.
Editorial: Can iTunes-Style Download Charges Really Work In Online Journalism?
If you’d pay 79p for an iTunes music download, a further few quid for a digital movie rental, then why wouldn’t you pay for the privilege of expanding your mind with access to “independent, in-depth reporting about science and technology”, the journalistic equivalent of one-off downloads. Currently raising start-up funds through funding platform Kickstarter, the San Francisco-based project has so far seen $121,000-odd pledged to what its creators are calling “the new home for the best journalism about the future”.
Orange & T-Mobile Approved By Ofcom To Bring 4G LTE To UK This Year
Preliminary approval has been granted by Ofcom for the 'Everything Everywhere' partnership that is Orange and T-Mobile to launch Britain's first 4G LTE network later this year.
Homeless Used As Wi-Fi Hotspots Causes Controversy
Ad agengy Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) has come under fire for their use of the homeless people of Austin Texas as wi-fi hotspots during the SXSW festival.
Think 'Big Issue' sellers for the modern public.
Why The Smaller iPad Was A No-Show
Apple's 'New iPad' launch event largely went as rumors predicted, with one glaring exception. The smaller iPad anticipated by many, including the normally rock solid Wall Street Journal, was missing in action. So what happened? There's been too much buzz around a lilliputian iPad for too long to presume Apple has not at least thought about it.
The History Of Animated GIFs
Ever wandered where the craze began that led to animated images of Nigel Thornberry as Disney princesses in your Tumblr feed? Look no further than the Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium, a rather in-depth and hugely informative six and a half minutes of the history behind some of the strangest imagery on the internet.
Water In The Desert - Why Apple Didn't Launch Siri For The iPad
One of the features not brought to the iPad was, somewhat surprisingly, Siri. Instead, Apple announced a dictation option for translating your words to text. Apple ordinarily does an excellent job of adapting features of one product line for another; and at first glance Siri would appear to be an excellent fit for their tablets. But a close look at how Apple has presented Siri to the public shows why it could not have been brought to the iPad in a way that preserves it’s concise, understandable messaging.
iOS 5.1 Shows '4G' Indicator On iPhone 4S
For meeting network downlink speeds of 14.4Mbps, what AT&T considers to be 4G, the iOS 5.1 update has begun to show "4G" in the status bar instead of "3G." We can't help but feel that this may be everso slightly disingenuous.
The New iPad, 'New iPad', Finally Unveiled By Apple
The tech world sits, watches, waits as Tim Cook walks on stage of what is his second major keynote as the new head of Apple to unveil the long-rumoured third incarnation of the world's most popular tablet. The iPad 3 has been heavily rumoured arguably ever since the iPad 2 finally made its way out to the world, such is the tenacity of Apple fanboys (we've fuelled the fire from time to time, it has to be said), but this evening the curtains have finally been lifted and we can welcome the device with welcome arms, fingers, voice.
This Week In New Releases [Week Of 5th March 2012]
We all need a gentle reminder from time to time. This Week In New Releases from New Rising Media aims to do just that – remind you of the biggest, best and hottest new media releases to look out for this week. From the latest big screen blockbusters, to this week's most anticipated Blu-Ray discs, via details of the next big triple-A videogame to reach consoles. This isn't a total run-down of everything new this week, though, these are carefully hand-picked for your viewing/playing pleasure entirely by us, enjoy.
Man Sues Google For Catching Him Peeing On Google Maps
A middle-aged man in France has sued Google because of a particular Street View image, showing him taking a leak in his front yard.
The Japanese Robot That Helps You Find Lost Things
Whether it’s losing your car keys just as you’re ready to step out the door to work, or misplacing your phone after a heavy night drinking, losing property is quite simply a fact of life. No matter how hard you strive to keep things in your possession, somehow fate always comes along and puts it in some obscure place nowhere to be found. That all might be a thing of the past however, if a robot being developed by Japanese electronics firm Hitachi ever becomes commonplace in residential homes.