This Algae Battery Could Power A Tesla With 200X The Charge
In a small lab, near a lake at the edge of West Berkeley, sits the prototype of what could revolutionize battery power as we know it. The secret to this power? Algae. OK, just hang with me here. Lots of research has already been done on algae’s possible power capabilities. Prototype creator Adam Freeman says this new kind of battery, the one he’s working on, could power even a Tesla. Read More-
deviantART Makes Its Case For Administering The .Art Domain
Online artists’ community deviantART is hoping to become responsible for the new .art web domains, and it recently sent a letter to ICANN (the organization responsible for managing top level domains) laying out its perspective on the stakes in the decision. The letter also presents deviantART’s case for why it deserves a “community designation” in the application… Read More -
Meet Raptor, The New Running Robot That Will Smother Your Soul In Fear
Another day, another bipedal robot that will eventually run you down and crush you! This new robot, called the Raptor, can run 26 miles an hour without falling over and even jump over obstacles. Read More -
Meet One Of The Tech Dudes Who Dated Those Women Flown In From NYC To Meet Tech Dudes
The very idea of it was appalling to many – an online dating site, the Dating Ring, was shipping women from New York City to date San Francisco tech dudes. Greg Benson was one of those tech dudes. And he says, after meeting the women who came all that way, he wasn’t that interested. As a strapping 6’4″, the 34 year old Bay Area based app developer who actually wants… Read More -
Don’t Freak Out You Guys, But Twitter.com Has Switched To A New Font
Apparently Twitter has switched its web interface from the Helvetica Neue font to Gotham Narrow SSm. Honestly, I barely have any idea what that sentence means, but that is what people who seem to know what they’re talking about were saying yesterday, and judging by the current consternation on Twitter, the change has now gone live for everyone. Also, if I squint at the different fonts… Read More -
Stanford Asks Students To Learn From Snapchat Founder’s Mistakes. We All Should.
Following the leak of sexist, crude emails sent by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel during his time at Stanford, the university’s Provost John Etchemendy has issued a memo to students imploring them to “learn something from this.” “We can choose to turn a blind eye to such statements and chalk them up to youthful indiscretion,” Etchemendy wrote. “Or we can be… Read More -
Google Said To Be Planning Android TV Launch At I/O In June
Google has long been rumored to replace Google TV with Android TV, a new crack at the home media market with more roots in its mobile OS and less of a separate focus, but a new report from GigaOM today suggests we’ll see it very soon; in fact, it’s apparently set to make its debut at the I/O developer conference taking place at the end of this month. The Android TV platform… Read More
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Google’s Rumored Stars Bookmarking Service Gets A Bit More Real As Chrome Extension Leaks
We’ve been hearing rumors about Google Stars — a new bookmarking service from Google — for quite a while now, but today, the project got a bit more real thanks to an extension the well-known Google watcher Florian Kiersch found earlier today. German blogger Carsten Knobloch has made the extension available for download and you can find a link to it at the end of his post… Read More -
Arts And Tech Non-Profit Gray Area Is A Symbol For A Changing City
All great art institutions were once startups too. I was wandering around the U.S.’s largest art museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the other week (on one of those #museumhack walks) when I learned that the institution’s very first acquisition in 1870 was a lowly unused and unfinished Roman sarcophagus dug up from what is now modern Southern Turkey. Basically… Read More -
What To Expect At Apple’s WWDC 2014
Starting Monday, Apple will be unloading a week’s worth of news and resources for software makers at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. Apple always kicks things off with a keynote at the beginning of the show, wherein it reveals new and exciting things for both developers and consumers alike. This year will be no exception, but what… Read More -
A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster
It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but it’s actually a cast for healing bones. The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, incorporates 3D printing and ultrasonic tech to make healing a broken bone more bearable. The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones (and other wounds) has been around for a while. But the problem was doctors couldn’t… Read More -
Our New Favorite Mad Scientist Builds A Terrifying Wrist-Mounted Flame Thrower In His Garage
Insane garage mad scientist Colin Furze promised three absurd X-Men themed projects by the end of the month — and man, has he delivered. First came his ridiculous, automatically extendable Wolverine claws. Then came his Magneto boots, which let him walk upside down across the ceiling. His last project, though, might be the most dangerous of the lot: wrist-mounted flame throwers. Read More -
Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report
The relationship between ISPs and large content providers like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube has become pretty contentious lately. To bring some transparency into how well ISPs deliver video content, Netflix launched its ISP Speed Index a while ago and today, YouTube is bringing a somewhat similar report to the U.S. Read More -
CEO Tony Fadell Hates When Nest Is Called An ‘Internet-Of-Things’ Company
We here in the tech press have gotten used to categorizing new, interesting products that are getting smart and connected under the umbrella term “Internet of Things.” But today at CODE Conference in Southern California, Nest CEO Tony Fadell said he hates the term, and sought to clarify why Nest shouldn’t be described that way. Read More -
Confirmed: Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel Is Kind Of An Ass
I’ve known Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and co-founder, for a while now. We have had more than half a dozen in-person conversations, far more phone calls, and even shared twenty minutes together on stage at Disrupt SF. And try as I might, I’ve had a hard time liking him. Now, after reading emails sent by Evan Spiegel during his undergrad time at Stanford, I clearly understand… Read More -
Apple Silently Becomes One Of The Most Influential Companies In The Smartwatch Industry
Somehow, despite the fact that Apple hasn’t even announced a smartwatch product, the company is still the second-most influential corporate entity in the smartwatch industry, just behind Samsung. Read More
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