Chief Executive of Rovio, Maker of Angry Birds Game, to Step Down
Rovio, the Finnish gaming company behind the popular “Angry Birds” franchise, said on Friday that its chief executive, Mikael Hed, would step down at the end of the year.
August 29, 2014 at 10:19AM
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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
The story of a technology whose time has come again.
August 29, 2014 at 9:17AM
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MSN Messenger is finally shutting down after 15 years
Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it’s now known, will be fully retired on October 31st. The software maker originally announced its plans to shift users over to Skype last year, but Microsoft kept the service running in China. After October 31st Chinese Messenger users will need to use Skype, bringing an end to 15 years of the service.
August 29, 2014 at 9:17AM
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Your Cellphone Company Says Your Location Info Is Private. Think Again.
U.S. cell carriers won’t say what they’re doing to stop private companies from tracking your whereabouts.
August 29, 2014 at 8:14AM
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WTF Just Happened: How Do They Pull Off the Vertigo Effect in Movies?
You probably arrived at this page after pressing pause on “Vertigo” or “Jaws” or “Raging Bull” or “Poltergeist” or “Goodfellas” or “The Wire.” A certain camera trick used in each of them might have broken your brain. While objects in the foreground appear the same size throughout a shot, objects in the background appear to morph in size.
August 29, 2014 at 8:14AM
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Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
After two years of development, the Silicon Valley company reveals to The Atlantic that it has substantial research effort into building flying robots than can deliver products across a city in a minute or two.
August 29, 2014 at 6:29AM
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In the Future, Your Clothes Will Be Cleaned By Schools Of Robotic Fish
A South Korean industrial designer has conceived of a radical new way of cleaning clothes. Instead of using a traditional washing machine, fleets of robotic fish will clean your clothes in a water tank — and without detergent.
August 29, 2014 at 5:39AM
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The “Worthless Currency Exchange” at Burning Man’s Camp Bitcoin
Flipping through my 160-page official Burning Man book of events, I noticed something strange: Camp Bitcoin was hosting a “worthless currency exchange.”
August 29, 2014 at 4:36AM
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Google’s Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer
Smith, 49, is a top candidate for the CTO role, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. She would become the third person to fill the job, after Aneesh Chopra and Todd Park, who recently resigned and is returning home to California this month.
August 28, 2014 at 6:54PM
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One apartment’s Wi-Fi dead zones, mapped with a physics equation
A doctoral student does the math on where his Wi-Fi is, and isn’t.
August 28, 2014 at 3:16PM
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