Russia tells U.N. during secret talks, it wants to censor the web to repress political opposition
359 days 19 hours ago - dailymail writes: Russia wants the ability to censor the internet - but the U.S. plans to stonewall the plans at a U.N. conference later this y... | News | Web
The swirling maelstrom of the sun, pictured in outstanding detail during the Transit of Venus
359 days 21 hours ago - dailymail writes: It is difficult to think of the sun as anything more than how we view it from Earth - a great, bright ball, uniform in appeara... | News | Culture
World's best hacker World Cup kicks off. Be the next zNinja!
360 days 3 hours ago - computerworld writes: There’s a hunt going on and an all-out hack-off competition among hackers to discover who the best digital ninja is, dubbe... | Article | Culture
Japanese Officials Failed to Use U.S. Data Tracking Radiation After Tsunami
361 days 4 hours ago - nytimes writes: The United States shared detailed radiation measurements with Japan in the early days of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disa... | Article | Culture
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Engineer Sends Robotic Bees To The Rescue
361 days 4 hours ago - livescience writes: Robert Wood, founder of the Harvard Microbiotics Lab, develops robots inspired by nature. He heads a team of more than 40 re... | News | Hi-tech
Keeping you safe, citizen: fingerprint scanner works from 20 feet
361 days 20 hours ago - dvice writes: Fingerprinting used to be a complicated affair, involving ink and paper and making actual prints. Well, okay, so it wasn't that co... | News | Culture
Google Threatens To Sue Huge YouTube MP3 Conversion Site
361 days 20 hours ago - torrentfreak writes: According to a letter seen by TorrentFreak, Google are threatening action against one of the web’s largest YouTube conversi... | News | Industry
14 techie turntables that any geek DJ would kill to scratch on
361 days 20 hours ago - dvice writes: Just as every bartender has his or her favorite cocktail mixer, a DJ must wield his turntable. DJs are the kings of virtually ever... | Opinion piece | Culture
Facebook Buys Facial Recognition Firm Face.com: What It Wants With Your Face
362 days 11 hours ago - huffingtonpost writes: Prepare for Facebook to be a whole lot more in your face. Facebook announced Monday that it will acquire facial recog... | Article | Web
Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria
362 days 11 hours ago - computerworld writes: Almost every inbox has been plagued by them: Emails offering a chance at a share of millions of dollars (or pounds or eur... | Article | Culture
Nine Things We Really, Really Want from Windows Phone 8
362 days 11 hours ago - gizmodo writes: Windows Phone has a great premise—a set of beautiful, minimalist tiles take the place of a million apps. It's brilliant in its... | Opinion piece | Software
The Windows Phone 8 Start Screen Is the Best of Any Phone
362 days 11 hours ago - gizmodo writes: I love Windows Phone 7's start screen: neatly organized square tiles that clearly show information in real time—from emails to... | Opinion piece | Software
Windows Phone 8 Looks Great, but It Screws Existing Users
362 days 11 hours ago - gizmodo writes: Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8 today, with multi-core support, a new Start screen, native code sharing with its forthcomin... | Opinion piece | Software
Tactile robot finger outperforms humans in identifying textures
362 days 11 hours ago - gizmag writes: We’ve seen the development of a number of technologies that could be used to provide robots with a sense of touch, such as proxi... | Video | Hi-tech
The Desks of 10 Famous Tech CEOs
362 days 11 hours ago - complex writes: Your workspace is quite possible the most important factor in getting your work done. Makes sense, right? That's why people go... | Article | Culture
Indian ISPs Unblock BitTorrent Sites After Appeal
362 days 11 hours ago - torrentfreak writes: Millions of Indians can today breathe a sigh of relief. They are once again able to access their favorite file-sharing sit... | News | Services
Men Are From YouTube, Women Are From Instagram
362 days 22 hours ago - jezebel writes: Next time you have to buy a gender-specific baby present, what about a Yelp or Spotify account wrapped in a pretty pink or blue... | Image | Services
Why a Keyboard—not a Processor or Screen or Anything Else—Is the Only Way to Beat Apple
362 days 22 hours ago - gizmodo writes: The killer (or be killed) feature of that new Microsoft Surface for Windows RT is its keyboard. The tablet itself is a wonderful... | Article | Culture
Stop using email for everything
362 days 22 hours ago - macworld writes: Robert Corrao has seven different Macs, an Apple TV, and of course an iPhone and an iPad to carry with him wherever he goes. Th... | Article | Web
Wildlife camera catches Austrian politician having sex in forest
365 days 9 hours ago - telegraph writes: An Austrian politician is in line to get up to £16,000 in compensation after a hidden camera used for snapping wildlife photog... | News | Culture
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