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Patent trolls are the villain du jour — taking advantage of an arcane and barely-functioning IP system to profit off of other people’s painstaking labors. Most often the strategy relies on a wide-net approach — wherein the troll gathers a portfolio of bafflingly broad patents and issues suits against everyone they can. The hope is Continue Reading →

Well, we’ve seen this sort of thing before. You’d think being handed a rare prototype for a major new phone before its unveiling would engender a greater sense of um… responsibility. Turns out that whatever sensibilities it does instill don’t necessarily preclude folks from taking these devices to bars, knocking back a few, then hitting Continue Reading →

Do you ever wish you could get rid of your cable box altogether and just watch everything through one device? If you’re a Time Warner customer, you may soon be able to do just that. Time Warner recently admitted that many of its customers hate set top boxes, so the company is working on making Continue Reading →

Amazon has yet to officially unveil its forthcoming Kindle Fire HD, but that hasn’t stopped a steady stream of information from coming out about the device. Now BGR has gotten its hands on exclusive photos showing the device’s brand new form factor. The new look features a more angular design than its predecessor… while the Continue Reading →

Since I’ve been told not to mess with Mother Nature, even though this Wikipedia personification is very positive, it seems best for your career planning to avoid what she abhors. Unfortunately, there’s a long list of what “nature abhors,” according to Google. Nature Abhors a Vacuum Perhaps this is why voids get filled quickly. It’s obvious when Continue Reading →

Most of the time getting caught playing a video game in class will get a student scolded. Many Millenials can wistfully recall surreptitiously passing around and playing games like Puzzpack and Drug Wars during high school math class… and today’s generation of students carry around phones powerful enough to play high-octane games once reserved only Continue Reading →

Google has acquired Bump — a super-popular sharing app for iOS and Android. The announcement was made today on the company’s official blog. Bump, founded in 2008, lets users share information by bumping phones together. It came into existence even before NFC technology, and quickly proved insanely popular. The app has been downloaded over 100 million Continue Reading →

The Turing test is one of the oldest ideas for imagining machine intelligence. Dreamed-up by computing legend Alan Turing, the idea is genius in its simplicity — if the average person can’t distinguish a particular machine from a real person through conversation, then that machine is said to possess thought. Each year, chat bots are Continue Reading →

There used to be a time when observing a top secret military base in one of the world’s biggest and most powerful countries would have required cutting-edge technology, scaling a fence or two-dozen, and more guts than any reasonable (or sane) person should have. Today, all you need is Google. According to Time, an eagle-eyed Continue Reading →

If you’re going to make the world’s largest walking robot, you might as well go for broke. That’s what Zollner Elektronik AG — a firm out of Germany — did when it unveiled “Tradinno,” its 11-ton, 51 foot, winged, fire breathing dragon powered by a 2 liter turbo diesel engine. Now the real question is, Continue Reading →