Tweeting from Mars: NASA Embraces Social Media in Full Force

For years, NASA had controlled every publicly facing asset of it’s business, ensuring that it’s representatives (representatives being astronauts, spokespeople, or simply everyday employees) maintain a professional and well spoken manner. This was to ensure that nothing that wasn’t supposed … Read More

HBO Attempt to Cull Piracy by Accelerating International Releases

After being awarded the title of most pirated show by torrent news site TorrentFreak last year, Forbes is reporting US content producer/provider HBO is making changes to it’s policies on the international release of of it’s original shows.

Currently, … Read More

Google it? Not Forever

‘Just Google it’.

It’s possibly the best advice you can get right now. However, The Observer’s John Naughton contends that someday it will be a suggestion of the past, and useful to none.

On Sunday, Naughton published this article regarding, essentially, the … Read More

Generation M: The Worstest Generation

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas at the start of each new year, is renowned for it’s keynotes. Some of the biggest names in consumer electronics take to the stage to discuss their strategies for the … Read More

Filter Your Rage: Instagram’s Not Making a Profit Off You

 Many Instagram users were angered to discover that the app’s terms and conditions had changed, allowing Instagram to claim ownership and profit from user’s photos, but the issue has since been clarified.

The internet was abuzz with news sites … Read More

Build us a Death Star Obama!

 There have been many doomsday scares in years gone by, such as the predicted catastrophe with the release of Doomsday by Charles Berlitz in 1981, the May 2000 planetary alignment and Y2K computer-date bug. Each of these doomsday … Read More

1 Millions Stops: Google Maps Comes to iPhone

In wake of the recent disaster that was Apple’s home baked mapping service, online mapping service top dog Google has made a return to the iPhone, this time in a native, beautifully designed app.

After being ousted from Apple’s iOS … Read More

Convenience vs Quality: The Battle of Compact Cameras

“Why lug around a camera when I have one on my phone?” This question has become the bane of the compact camera’s existence. With camera technology becoming increasingly advanced, there are now smartphones capable of high quality photographs … Read More

Swarm Bots: Advancing through the years

Over the past few years, automated, self-reliant robots have been gaining traction within the robotics community. First created in 2008 as wireless powered bots capable or traversing a set path around a table, these robots (dubbed “Swarm Bots”) became an … Read More

Another Holiday Season, Another Apple TV Rumour

Much like the iPhone and iPad before it, the fabled Apple TV/iTV is receiving another round of “confirmations” this holiday quarter.

As usual, the culprit behind these confirmations is none other than Gene Munster, senior analyst at Piper … Read More