The backlash over 3D has become so fervent that College Humor wonders if even 2D has become superfluous. So they put together a trailer for Transformers in 1-D that makes a very convincing case.
Internet Explorer has long been declining in popularity, but it hit an abandonment milestone in October as its market share dropped below 50 per cent for the first time in more than a decade. What browsers are reaping the benefits?
We knew this day would come. Duke Nukem Forever might have been a bona-fide turkey on the next-gen consoles, but the source material still has its fans. Rebirthing the original classic on the Android platform, Duke Nukem 3D is proof positive that you can't keep a good ol' boy down.
Without fail, one of the most boring stories every Christmas is Hamley's top toys for Christmas. Justin Bieber dolls? R/C helicopters? Singing Elmos? What are we, five? Firebox's kicked off Christmas early with their top predictions for this year's big sellers, and most of them are actually aimed at people like us.
The BBC is celebrating its 75th television anniversary today, and instead of presenting it with a zimmerframe and turning its hearing aid up a few notches, we decided to look through the archives for our personal highlights from three-quarters of a century of British broadcasting.
Following yesterday's revelation that the Gmail App was in the works for iOS, it's now available for download on both the iPhone and iPad (and iPod touch, too).
Sixteen feet. That's taller than Yao Ming standing on Shaq's shoulders, more than an average-sized giraffe, and yet slightly less than the diagonal measurement of this gargantuan display. The days of Back to the Future II-style 3D advertising are nearly upon us!
Late last year, Apple sued little-known Android tablet maker NT-K for "copying" the iPad. No big deal there; Cupertino's always had pretty lax lawsuit trigger discipline. But that December it also took the batshit nutso step of filing criminal charges, which were finally tossed this week.
Japan is hoping to have the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant safely shuttered by the end of the year, but a little radioactive wrench just got dropped: inspectors have discovered evidence of very recent fission. That's bad news.
Apple is engaged in a very public lawsuit with Samsung, alleging that Samsung has gone too far in mimicking their product designs. Now Samsung is putting Apple's design guru Jonny Ive on the stand to explain all the ways they've supposedly infringed on patents.
This image was taken by the Arecibo Radar Telescope in Puerto Rico on April 2010. It shows an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier on direct interception course with Earth's orbit. The arrival day: November 8. This is its trajectory.
One of the central tenets of the Google Mothership's model is "free." Everything's free! Free, free, free. Except, um, when it gets too popular? Starting January 1st of next year, developers will be charged when their apps access the Google Maps API more than 25,000 times in a day.
According to Ofcom's recent infrastructure report for 2011, British households download 17GB on average per month over their fixed broadband lines. That's the equivalent of streaming about 12 hours of BBC iPlayer.
Self-portraitist clickflashwhirr has been snapping shots of her mug every day for over a year — and that's nothing new on the net. But averaging 500 of those snaps into one artificial face? Beautifully creepy.
NMA, the absolutely weird and wacky animation group that whips up those hilariously ridiculous videos about any 'news' event, has released an iPad app. Called NMA.tv, the app was originally banned by Apple a few weeks ago but has now been approved.
Cnet is delving further into the death of the Microsoft Courier, looking at the differences between Steven Sinoksky and J Allard, who ran the Windows 8 and Courier projects respectively.
