October 21, 2013 The First Known Picture Of People It’s easy to forget how old photography is. Given that flying, internal combustion engines, electricity, the telephone, and other staples of modern life didn’t…
October 18, 2013 Android Co-Founder Rich Miner on How He Is Spending Google’s Money Rich Miner set out a year ago to make sure that Google Ventures had its hand in more mobile deals. And it’s fair to…
October 18, 2013 1300-Foot-Wide Asteroid 2013 TV135’s Near-Earth Flyby : Orbit Animation The space rock was discovered on October 8th, 2013 by the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Ukraine. It came within 4.2 million miles and currently…
October 17, 2013 Google to support Windows XP a year longer than Microsoft will Google won’t even let its employees use Windows machines unless they have a darn good reason, but the company knows its customers. A lot…
October 17, 2013 Windows 8.1: where to get it and why you want it Today’s the big day: Windows 8.1 is now available for download. So how do you get your hands on it, and perhaps more importantly,…
October 16, 2013 Moose Die-Off Alarms Scientists CHOTEAU, Mont. — Across North America — in places as far-flung as Montana and British Columbia, New Hampshire and Minnesota — moose populations are…
October 16, 2013 Amazon Said in Talks With HTC Since June on Prime Handset Plans Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world’s biggest e-commerce company, and HTC Corp. (2498) have been in talks since at least June to develop handsets for…
October 15, 2013 Verizon Begins Deploying AWS LTE Network, 80 Mbps Download Speeds to be had – Droid Life Earlier this year, Verizon told us that they would begin to deploy their recently acquired AWS LTE spectrum before we hit 2014. via Pocket…
October 15, 2013 Cisco Checks on the Cloud and Confirms That It’s Getting Bigger Ever heard of a Zettabyte before? I’m going to use that word a few times in this story, so it will probably help to…
October 15, 2013 Rescue teams evacuate residents after typhoon in India BHUBANESWAR, India, Oct. 15 (UPI) — Typhoon Phailin and flooding in the Indian state of Odisha has affected more than 12 million people and…