Skype has announced its intentions to acquire the GroupMe company, a new app startup founded in 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. GroupMe has created and provides a group messaging service that helps users stay in touch with each other and will enable Skype to enhance further its mobile … [Read more...] about Skype Acquire GroupMe, Group Messaging Service
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Harvard Lab Wants To Find The Missing Link Between Birds And Dinosaurs
The lab in particular is Arhat Abzhanov's. The scientist is on quite a mission. Without having to plod through excess jargon, he wants to find out which genes among bird embryos are dormant. When he does, he intends to apply the method to curing a birth defect known as HFM or Hemifacial microsomia. … [Read more...] about Harvard Lab Wants To Find The Missing Link Between Birds And Dinosaurs
California Police Experimenting With Computer Program That Predicts Crime
To be more specific, what's predicted is the likeliness of crime in a specific area. The police department field testing the program are from Santa Cruz. The exact name of the software the program runs is unknown, but what it does is compute and predicts crime by analyzing past trends from a sizable … [Read more...] about California Police Experimenting With Computer Program That Predicts Crime
Unorthodox Gamera Helicopter Actually Flies (Video)
Ladies and gentlemen, an American biology student now holds the record for the world's longest human-powered flight by a female. She's Judy Wexler, and in the picture below, she's on Gamera, a carbon fiber four-rotor aircraft that's on track to bag the Sikorsky prize. It's a holy grail of sorts … [Read more...] about Unorthodox Gamera Helicopter Actually Flies (Video)
Microsoft Unveils Un-Photogenic Patty Stress Test Robot
In what would amount as a historic occasion over at Microsoft Surface HQ, a team member officially blogged about Patty. There's even a video of it in action. Wait, who's Patty? Patty is a wonderful robot that conducts stress tests on the screens of Microsoft Surface units. See, with lots of touching … [Read more...] about Microsoft Unveils Un-Photogenic Patty Stress Test Robot
Google+ Update Brings YouTube Hangout Support (video)
This week, Google has rolled out a couple of new updates to its Google+ social networking service, which include a new feature that allows you to start and watch YouTube videos in a Google+ Hangout. In the near future, it is also expected that Google will further integrate the YouTube service with … [Read more...] about Google+ Update Brings YouTube Hangout Support (video)
Ridley Scott Agrees To Create New Blade Runner Film
Ridley Scott, the visionary director behind the cult classic Blade Runner film created back in 1982, has agreed to create a new version of this fantastic film. However, it has not yet been decided whether the new film will be a prequel or a sequel to the original Blade Runner. This announcement has … [Read more...] about Ridley Scott Agrees To Create New Blade Runner Film
13 Year Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence To Increase Solar Panel Efficiency By 50 Percent
Aidan Dwyer is just 13 years of age, but has been able to use the Fibonacci Sequence to increase the efficiency of solar panels yielding 50 percent more with his new design than a standard flat solar panel. Aidan had a eureka moment while hiking in the Catskills and was intrigued by the patterns … [Read more...] about 13 Year Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence To Increase Solar Panel Efficiency By 50 Percent
Chinese Geniuses Have An Idea For Deflecting Scary Apophis Asteroid
What a team of physicists from Tsinghua University plan to do is launch a small solar-sail powered spacecraft to intercept the asteroid and smash it off course. The tiny details involving such a hair-raising operation are still vague, which is understandable. For starters, who'll build the … [Read more...] about Chinese Geniuses Have An Idea For Deflecting Scary Apophis Asteroid
Bloon Is The Simplest Semi-Orbital Craft Ever
Or should it be suborbital? It's basically a large helium balloon that goes up, up, up until the passengers feel they can touch the stars. The people who got the idea off the ground is a Barcelona-based company called zero2infinity, and they are now accepting reservations for a 2013-2015 schedule. … [Read more...] about Bloon Is The Simplest Semi-Orbital Craft Ever
Dr. R.E. Cycler Robot Crushes Cans Without Remorse
You should be glad it doesn't crush human skulls. But that's in the near future, when the War has begun. Anyway, for now they're just cans. Long story short, high tech firm Florida Robotics built Dr. R.E. Cycler to educate the youth about the recycling process. What the Dr. does is pretty visceral; … [Read more...] about Dr. R.E. Cycler Robot Crushes Cans Without Remorse
iFixit Launches Cloud Based Manual Service, Dozuki
iFixit, well-known for dismantling the very best gadgets around and uncovering their inner secrets, has today announced an exciting new project. This initiative is designed to make technical documentation and how-to guides easily accessible within a cloud-based, Wiki-like environment. The new site … [Read more...] about iFixit Launches Cloud Based Manual Service, Dozuki
