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Tweeting from Mars: NASA Embraces Social Media in Full Force
March 13, 2013 | Jayden KerrFor 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
March 7, 2013 | Jayden KerrAfter 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
March 5, 2013 | Sophie Blackshaw‘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
January 10, 2013 | Jayden KerrThe 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
December 19, 2012 | Ross HealyMany 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!
December 17, 2012 | Danita van der WeegenThere 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
December 14, 2012 | Jayden KerrIn 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
Swarm Bots: Advancing through the years
November 25, 2012 | Danita van der WeegenOver 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
November 21, 2012 | Jayden KerrMuch 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
Microsoft’s Head of Windows Out
November 19, 2012 | Jayden KerrNot to be beaten by Apple’s executive shake up, Microsoft has just announced it’s head of Windows Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company, effective immediately. He is being replaced by current chief marketing officer and CFO, Tami Reller, who … Read More