Tanks Replace Taxis For London PR Stunt
The endlessly deep Mariana Trench pockets of Electronic Arts have provided money for the above to happen. Tanks, in London, because EA has another little war game coming out quite soon.
The endlessly deep Mariana Trench pockets of Electronic Arts have provided money for the above to happen. Tanks, in London, because EA has another little war game coming out quite soon.
Flickr is a shell of what it used to be; Instagram makes everyone's pictures look the same and Picasa isn't really ideal for browsing great pictures taken by a great community. 500px, on the other hand, seems to only have great pictures. Their iPad app is an extremely elegant way to browse them.
Today's announcement that Sony is buying out Ericsson's share of its mobile phone joint venture leads to one very big question. What will Sony be like without the guidance of Swedish mobile giant Ericsson?
When you think of Facebook you don't exactly think 'environmentally friendly'. All those data centres burning through electricity, powering your virtual social lives. Facebook's first push out of the US might be a tad kinder to the environment, using Arctic cooling.
It's not just BlackBerry Tag anymore -- Bold and Curve users will also be able use their NFC chips to pay for stuff too. MasterCard has cleared the Bold 9900 and Curve 9360 for its PayPass contactless payment system. Now we just need the banks on-board. [Recombu]
Printers aren't exciting. They're printers! We make fun of them, and of HP for stuffing them full of apps. But professional-photography-grade printers? Yeah, we care about those. And Canon's new PIXMA PRO-1 inkjet is really dang impressive.
Boeing's first 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight today. After years of delays the future of aviation has arrived. And according to reviews, it was a totally pleasant flight. Even if the 787 can't totally fix flying, it might make it a whole lot better.
Looks like Google's latest flagship Android phone is slightly less awesome than we thought it was -- no Corning Gorilla glass, just 'fortified glass'. Of course Samsung didn't actually speak about the glass originally, we just hoped-and-wished it was furnished in Gorilla. [Twitter via Phandroid via Android and Me via Engadget]
The charming rural scene pictured above actually contains 50 tonnes or our discarded water bottles and sandwich containers, which were blended up and refashioned into this 90-foot-long plastic bridge.
My, how times have changed. Just 60 years after the Ten Pound Pom campaign saw millions of Brits jump ship to Australia, those Orrstrayans are being lured back to the mothership by the UK Trade & Investment, hoping to capitalise on the country's fresh way of thinking.
Sony-only phones are coming back. The Japanese electronics giant has announced that it will acquire Ericsson's share of Sony Ericsson partnership bringing it into the Sony 'platform of network-connected' products.
Removing tumours at the base of the skull have traditionally required going in through the facial area — sometimes with disfiguring results. However, a doctor at John Hopkins University has figured out how to reach the back of your head using the skulls natural openings.
The Nokia 2110 was somewhat unremarkable on the surface when it first appeared in 1994. It wasn't impossibly pint-sized, nor did it have an overly complex industrial design. But it had something that no other phone at the time had: software.
The ESNET security company is reporting that the Tsunami Trojan originally developed for Linux systems has been ported to OSX. The Trojan is designed to hijack an infected system and use its network connection in DDoS attacks or to automatically download more malware. More details are available at MacWorld.
What if you're driving down a dark road in the middle of the night and you have no idea where you are? Navigating twists and turns would suck. But what if your car could display all the relevant info in front of your eyes?
A British man noticed an unidentified 'flying' object in the night sky and said it was flashing a bright white light into his home. He called the police trying to explain his situation. The police dutifully logged it down until... the same guy called back later and apologized, saying it was only the Moon.
