The world’s sweetest ATM dispenses cupcakes, not cash
Is a 3D chocolate printer too rich for your blood? If so then Sprinkles Cupcakes has a slightly cheaper way to satisfy your sweet tooth …
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Scientists find bats can call dibs on their food, warn rival bats to stay away
It turns out we’re more like bats that we ever imagined, for just as we can call dibs on the last slice of pizza, bats …
Video: Facebook is using laser-shooting drones to spread Internet access
Facebook and Internet.org on Thursday announced the Connectivity Lab, a team that will work on connecting more people to the Internet by using some new …
Google Naps leverages the power of Maps to find a cool place to sleep in
Google Naps is a new service that allows tired users to find a place to sleep nearby by leveraging the power of Google’s Google Maps …
New poll shows the more education you have, the more you hate the Comcast-TWC merger
Does being more educated actually give you more common sense? A new Reuters poll finds that while Americans as a whole dislike the idea of …
BlackBerry’s long, hard slog back to respectability
BlackBerry’s fourth-quarter earnings were markedly better than expected, with its loss of $0.08 per share a share significantly better than the consensus estimate of a $0.67 …
BlackBerry Q4 loss much narrower than expected but revenue sinks below $1 billion
BlackBerry’s last earnings report was truly a thing of spellbinding horror as the company had just taken down its “for sale” sign and posted earnings …
Clock ticks for mankind as ‘Cyberdyne’ goes public
Of course, Skynet cannot triumph over humanity until a corporation solves the problem of how to create sentient killer machines. We are now one step closer …
Carbon dioxide leak kills worker at Samsung factory
A worker died at a Samsung factory in Seoul after carbon dioxide was mistakenly released, according to Korean news agency Yonhap News. The factory’s fire …
How to avoid wrecking your vision while staring at a computer screen
Nowadays, we spend nearly 6 hours each day staring at a display, whether it’s a desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet. After looking at screens all …
U.S. Department of Defense throws BlackBerry 10 a welcome lifeline
If there’s one mobile platform that needs a lifeline these days, it’s BlackBerry 10. BlackBerry’s hardware sales have been in free fall over the past …
Tim Cook makes his most un-Jobs-like move yet and acts graciously toward Microsoft
Apple CEO Tim Cook may not be a charismatic visionary like legendary Apple cofounder Steve Jobs but he definitely seems to have a lot more …
Amazon will reportedly launch free video streaming service
Between a rumored set-top box and the evolving price of Prime, Amazon has been making headlines on a daily basis. Now The Wall Street Journal is reporting …
Google and Facebook get sued over their ‘incomprehensible’ privacy policies
Have you ever tried to really read through Google and Facebook’s privacy policies? If you have then you might find that your eyes start to …
This amazing interactive 6GB photo of our galaxy took NASA 10 years to capture
The photo you see above is one minuscule portion of a staggeringly massive infrared panoramic photo captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope that manages to squeeze …
Steve Jobs happily got a Google employee fired for trying to recruit Apple engineers
Pando’s Mark Ames has been doing a terrific job covering fresh revelations about the probably illegal collusion between Apple and Google to not recruit one …
Comcast won’t force you to rent its modems
While there are certainly many reasons to gripe about Comcast, being forced to rent its modems shouldn’t be one of them. As Ars Technica, Stop …
Ad watchdog agrees that Google customers are getting ‘Scroogled’
Take a victory lap, Microsoft: Your claims that Google is “Scroogling” its customers have stood up to scrutiny. The Guardian reports that the Advertising Standards …
Microsoft employees already like new CEO Nadella vastly more than Ballmer
Glassdoor this week came out with its list of employees’ most highly rated CEOs for 2014 so far and the usual suspects in the tech …
BlackBerry’s big moment: Can it make money with BBM?
The messaging app market has really started to heat up after Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion and after Alibaba’s investment in the far more obscure …
Google denies snooping on Gmail users to hunt down leaks
Responding to allegations from TechCrunch former editor Michael Arrington that Google had accessed his Gmail email address to trace a leak from inside the company, …
AT&T Mobility CEO says Netflix should pay a traffic tax, not customers
AT&T pulled in a staggering $128.8 billion in revenue in 2013. The company’s operating income for the full year totaled more than $30 billion. According to the …
On Oculus Rift and Facebook’s grand acquisitions
So… Microsoft buys Nokia, Yahoo buys Tumblr, Twitter buys Vine, Google buys Nest, Facebook buys Instagram, Facebook buys WhatsApp, Facebook buys Oculus Rift. Notice the pattern …
Watch a man narrowly escape death in heart-pounding rescue video from Houston apartment fire
A massive new apartment complex still under construction in Houston, Texas caught fire on Tuesday. Footage all over every news channel showed the huge complex …
BlackBerry sues exec to stop him from escaping to Apple
BlackBerry has probably not been a fun place to work for the last couple of years for rather obvious reasons. So when a company that’s …
Yet another survey shows Comcast and TWC are hated by their customers
Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes and rock-bottom customer satisfaction ratings for America’s two largest cable companies. Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy …
Spotify cuts subscription prices in half for college students
As the music streaming market becomes increasingly crowded, each service is finding new ways to stand out. iTunes Radio teamed up with NPR, Samsung’s Milk Music …
New app lets you search through Google without being tracked
After Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks, Internet privacy is on everyone’s minds. One way in particular that people are looking for privacy is through their search …
Facebook to buy virtual reality gaming company Oculus VR
Wow. It seems Facebook’s ambitions are growing by the day. Little more than a month after his company bought messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion, …
Google is reportedly cleaning up Android’s security flaws for a major push into the workforce
Is Google finally getting ready to take enterprise customers’ concerns about Android security seriously? Two unnamed sources tell The Information that Google is planning a …
