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In February we saw the usual small movements in the browser market. More significantly, however, we didn’t see any significant movements in the operating system market. For the second month in a row, Windows 8.x’s share is basically unaltered… and so is Windows XP’s. The desktop browser space today seems steadier than it has been Continue Reading →

Tesla plans to support its customers in Europe with a larger network of charging stations and over 30 new service centers and retail stores. The electric car manufacturer said it would rapidly expand the number of Superchargers available across the continent, allowing more Model S owners to quickly refuel their vehicle for free. There are Continue Reading →

We’ve all been in a situation where nature calls at a crowded event and an empty toilet is nowhere to be found. Airpnp is an experimental service that aims to solve this problem — by letting residences and businesses rent out their bathrooms to people in their immediate location who need to use it. Airpnp Continue Reading →

Overstock.com has surpassed $1 million in sales generated from Bitcoin transactions. The retailer partnered with Coinbase on January 9 to let consumers purchase items with the digital currency, meaning the milestone was achieved in less than two months. As you can see in the charts above shared by Coinbase, more than 4,000 customers made purchases Continue Reading →

Music is personal. It’s tied to our identities, our emotions, even our friends. So the idea that a complex algorithm could make us smarter about music is counter-intuitive. The creators of Cone, a wireless speaker that learns what you like and builds on it, think they’ve cracked the code. Cone is the first product by Continue Reading →

  Seemingly out of nowhere, a major promotional campaign for a “real” hoverboard known as HUVr has launched online on Tuesday. It all began with a pair of bizarre video clips featuring testimonials from celebrities including Tony Hawk, Moby, and Back to the Future’s own Christopher Lloyd. One clip shows Lloyd delivering the HUVr to Continue Reading →

Baseball is a game of inches, and those inches will be measured in a brand new way. Major League Baseball Advanced Media on Saturday introduced a revolutionary plan for in-ballpark infrastructure designed to provide the first complete and reliable measurement of every play on the field and answer previously unanswerable analytics questions. The announcement was Continue Reading →

Got multiple people using your Chromebook, the way I do? Each member of my family has a profile on mine so that everyone can have their own custom experience that synchronizes data with their own Google account. The bad news is that Chrome OS doesn’t support fast user switching, so for my kids to use Continue Reading →

Dish has agreed to restrict the ability of its Hopper DVR to automatically skip over ads when Dish customers watch ABC shows, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The agreement comes as part of a larger retransmission deal that will continue to give Dish the ability to carry broadcast and cable networks Continue Reading →

The big boys came out on the side of the broadcasters in their upcoming appearance in front of the Supreme Court in the Aereo case. The solicitor general’s office put the Obama administration solidly in the anti-Aereo camp with a 40-page amicus brief (read it here) filed with the SCOTUS today. The broadcasters say that Continue Reading →