“There’s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere,” Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg told the Wall Street Journal the other day. He was talking about a phone! But not just any phone… A “games-oriented” phone, to be precise, and that sounds a heck of a lot like something tentatively [...]
No one’s going to be calling Nokero out for falling behind. Just a few short months after revealing its first commercial light bulb for developing nations, the outfit has now rolled out a second version, the predictably titled N200. This guy strikes a vastly different pose compared to the original, with the LED enclosure hanging on a [...]
Last week, Facebook added feature that allowed users to ignore friend requests without rejecting them. It seems, though, that it also acts like Twitter’s “follow” feature—the requesting user sees the requested user’s statuses, but not the other way around. In a strangely unpublicized move, Facebook has replaced the “Ignore” button with a “Not Now” button [...]
In only two weeks, Alexthemoviegeek constructed this meticulously detailed, full-size Power Loader. He has generously offered instructions so you can do the same. But first, let’s watch his take on a full-size Alien Queen replica:
Windows only: Freeware utility The Handy Start Menu organizes the applications in your Start Menu into categories automatically, so you don’t have to deal with organizing everything yourself.
A 17-year-old boy from Australia claims he inadvertently triggered a chain of events that led to thousands of people being affected by a Twitter security flaw yesterday. But it all may have been started by a Japanese developer a couple of hours earlier. Pearce Delphin, or @zzap on TwitterTwitter, says he exposedthe security flaw by tweeting a piece of [...]
What’s nearly two meters tall, weighs 230kg, and can lift the equivalent of a generously proportioned man? No, it isn’t the ED-209 from RoboCop, but rather the latest robotic biped from Japan. The Core project that’s being developed by the fuRo lab in Chiba’s Institute of Technology may look and sound quite a bit like your favorite rogue [...]
Yahoo isn’t ceding the webmail market to the likes of Gmail and Hotmail; the company has announced the launch of a cleaner, faster and more social version of Yahoo Mail. The new Yahoo Mail Beta, which will debut in the next few weeks, focuses on providing the user with a slicker, cleaner and snappier interface. Yahoo says [...]
Have you always wanted a hacker of your very own? Well, now you can take one home with Adopt a Hacker — provided you’re part of the New York startup scene, that is. Adopt A Hacker is a project that launched yesterday in order to persuade more [...]