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TechCrunch: Michigan Tech Sponsors A 3D Printers For Peace Contest
Now that Defense Distributed is on the defensive, it’s time to think a bit harder about what 3D printing really means. To that end, Michigan Tech is sponsoring a Printers For Peace contest that is encouraging designers and engineers to make amazing ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:31am -07:00T (373 words)
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Om Malik: Benetton teams up with Little Printer creator Berg on connected devices
Remember Little Printer, the cute connected gadget we reported on about 18 months back? It’s a great collision of old and new: a thermal printer that can push out everything from news snippets to Foursquare check-ins – the kind of stuff you’...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (482 words)
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Om Malik: Aruba buys indoor-location startup Meridian. Here’s why
Aruba Networks is already building a good deal of the world’s enterprise Wi-Fi networks, pumping wireless signals to malls, conference centers and hotels around the globe. Now it has another use for those networks beyond mere connectivity: it can pinpoi...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:31am -07:00T (416 words)
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Slashdot: Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox
hypnosec writes "Mozilla is not going ahead with its plans to block third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of its upcoming Firefox 22. Mozilla needs more time to analyze the outcome of blocking these cookies. The non-profit organization releas...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:31am -07:00T (177 words)
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Slashdot: 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made
An anonymous reader writes "A meta-study published yesterday looked at over 12,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate science that appeared in journals between 1991 and 2011. The papers were evaluated and categorized by how they implicitly or explicitly endo...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (277 words)
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Techdirt: Saudi Religious Police: Anyone Using Twitter 'Has Lost This World And His Afterlife'
A couple of days ago Techdirt wrote about how Murong Xuecun, a well-known user of the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo with over a million followers, had his account closed down suddenly. Murong has now written a fine article about the background to what h...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (512 words)
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Ars Technica: Unreleased Wii U games will be demoed at Best Buy during E3
One of these things is not like the other.
Nintendo has announced a handful of games set for launch on the Wii U through the spring and summer. Releases include the exclusive Sonic: The Lost World, a new version of Super Luigi U, an...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (209 words)
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MacRumors: U.S. Department of Defense Approves iOS 6 Devices for Military Networks
Following a report from earlier this month indicating that the U.S. Department of Defense was preparing to approve Apple devices running iOS 6 for use on military networks, Bloomberg now reports that the department has officially issued the authorization,...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (508 words)
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Om Malik: Binge-watching forces “One Life to Live,” “All My Children” to cut back on new episodes
The original idea behind soap operas was that daily episodes would keep viewers hooked and advertisers happy. But few people have time to devote to mid-day TV any more, and as TV viewing shifts online, the model is changing. It’s been just two and a...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:46am -07:00T (726 words)
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TechCrunch: Social Trip Planning App Tripshare Converts Travel Inspiration To Bookings
Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee #1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasib...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:31am -07:00T (824 words)
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TechCrunch: Big Data Visualization Goes Public As Tableau Software Raises $254M, Shares Pop 58%
The march of the enterprise software IPOs continues, with not one but two companies debuting on New York stock exchanges today. Business intelligence provider Tableau Software, trading as “DATA”, is one of the more highly anticipated tech IPOs...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (378 words)
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Om Malik: The future, according to Google
During a fireside chat with four Google Research heavyweights — artificial-intelligence guru Peter Norvig, Google Glass guy Thad Starner, MapReduce paper co-author Jeff Dean and distributed computing wizard Alfred Spector — on Thursday, an aud...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (287 words)
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Techdirt: A Framework For Copyright Reform
I watched a large part of the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property's first hearing on copyright reform, and came away somewhat disappointed. While the panelists presented a variety of interesting viewpoints and worked hard to highlight areas of ag...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:31am -07:00T (1195 words)
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TechCrunch: Google's Street View Trekker Backpack Co-Creator Talks Unmanned Hikes, Pack Animal Street View
Google impressed a lot of people when it debuted its Grand Canyon Street View imagery in October. The Trekker backpack used to capture that imagery, which is essentially a backpack-mounted version of the same all-seeing eye that sits atop the Google Stre...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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TechCrunch: Google's Street View Trekker Backpack Co-Creator Talks Unmanned Hikes, Pack Animal Street View
Google impressed a lot of people when it debuted its Grand Canyon Street View imagery in October. The Trekker backpack used to capture that imagery, which is essentially a backpack-mounted version of the same all-seeing eye that sits atop the Google Stre...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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