New iPhone Dating App Either Fake or Comes Bundled With Old Headphones
After the iPhone poker that was really a bluff, here comes another application that wants to date the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/first-third-party-iphone-app-probably-a-bluff-251171 This time, instead of being vague about it, the developer goes on the record and says that “this will be an application running on the iPhone in summer. It’s currently in development and will soon…
Old-Fashioned Rechargeable Batteries Get New-Fashioned Way To Charge
Energizer just announced that it’s trying to get the “tech-wired and wireless younger generation” to switch to rechargeable NiMH AA and AAA batteries. The best way to reach that coveted consumer demographic? Colorful USB chargers, of course! The Energizer Duo can plug into a USB jack or wall outlet, comes in red, yellow or blue,…
The Man Wants Your PS3
We all know that you can get a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside by contributing your PS3’s idle time to processing sh’loads of Alzheimer’s research data. Apparently, Stanford’s Folding@home is generating so many teraflops of good buzz, Big Corporate wants in. Masa Chatani, chief technology officer at Sony Computer Entertainment, told the Financial Times yesterday…
Xerox Gets X-Ray Vision on the Web
As if there weren’t enough reasons for Web-related paranoia, Xerox just patented a technique to get a demographic lock on you—age, sex, and possibly income—by just looking at the sites you have visited. The patent explicitly describes the invention as a workaround for all of those pesky users who input incomplete, inaccurate or, God forbid,…