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Sphero announces two new versions of the Sphero Mini
New Sphero toys are on their way. They announced today that a new Mini Activity Kit and new version of the Sphero Mini will be available later this fall.
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Tumblr Reader Sets Off 8-Hour Race To Save Suicidal Teen's Life
Some people long for small-town life — to live in a heartwarming place where everyone knows your name and your neighbors have your back. But these days, one could argue that the whole world is like one, well-connected community. At least that's what a New Jersey teen found out recently. The girl had been struggling. She was clearly spiraling down, with signs of depression all over her...
Researchers: Algorithm Can Tell If You're Lying on Twitter
Social media can be a tremendous force for good during an emergency. News agencies and local governments can disseminate urgent alerts in an instant, providing valuable information to a distraught public. Unfortunately, as services like Twitter are user-driven and unfiltered, plenty of errant info can spread like wildfire too. Someone’s pants are on fire here, as this totally untrue...
T-Mobile USA Revenues Slide, Customers Continue to Flee in Q2
T-Mobile USA reported its second quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, in which the carrier noted that its service revenues totaled $4.4 billion for the quarter, down 5.2% from the $4.6 billion recorded during the same period last year. Those revenues, however, remained on a par with the $4.4 billion reported during the first quarter of this year. The carrier also noted net customer...
Man Orders HDTV From Third-Party Amazon Retailer, Gets Assault Rifle Instead
Seth Horvitz, a Washington, D.C. resident, recently took to Amazon to order a brand new 39-inch Westinghouse LED HDTV from one of Amazon’s third-party retailers. He didn’t get a television. He didn’t accidentally get a monitor. He didn’t get an empty box (which might have been better than what he received). He did get, however, a brand new $2,132 Sig Sauer SIG716 semi-automatic assault...
Google Records $12.21B in Q2 2012 Revenue
Google just announced its second quarter earnings for 2012 in which it said it generated $12.21 billion in revenue and $2.79 billion in profit on $8.42 per share. Wall Street originally projected the firm to record a lesser $8.41 billion in revenue. The company's revenues represent a 21% increase over the same quarter last year, and that was attributed to new products. "Google...
Pioneer of Augmented Reality Claims Mickey D's Accosted Him, Fast Food Joint Denies It
It's unbelievable, what a tech genius has to go through these days just to get a chicken wrap: Professor Steve Mann said he and his family were at a McDonald's in Paris when employees accosted him, trying to rip his camera away from him before kicking him out. Problem was, the unit he was carrying was physically installed in his head. A University of Toronto professor of Electrical and...
Yahoo Cutting 2,000 More Jobs
Yahoo announced today that it is cutting a further 2,000 jobs in an effort to make it self “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate.” The company that really launched the search engine business into the stratosphere has fallen on hard times, and with that comes the need to keep trimming itself down. Yahoo is going to cut a further 14 percent of its workforce...
Facebook Posts List of "Most Shared Articles" of 2011
Though perhaps a bit premature, Facebook has just published its "Most Shared Articles" for 2011. (Really? The year's not even over yet…) So what can we learn from this list of 40 articles that have set the social webs abuzz? Well, maybe that the death of traditional media outlets has been greatly exaggerated, considering that CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times all loom...
Convenience Driven vs. Purpose Driven: Can Facebook Kill Twitter?
Social networks such as Facebook and Google+ have continued to expand in both popularity and functionality. I am continually amazed by the amount of interactivity that can be accomplished at such sites: I can message, post pictures and videos, let people know what I'm doing and instant message, just to name a few. It's just so convenient to stay within the walled garden of those sites...