Need To Pump Up Your iPhone Voice Recordings? The Pint-Sized iRig MIC Cast Is Now Shipping

Need To Pump Up Your iPhone Voice Recordings? The Pint-Sized iRig MIC Cast Is Now ShippingThe microphone in the iPhone 4S is pretty good â€" I have found it to capture excellent quality on all my consumer-ish recordings and videos. Of course, that is not to say it could not be improved. When the iRig MIC Cast was announced at CES this year, I was pretty excited. I have gotten a lot of use out of the original iRig MIC and this miniaturized version seemed poised...

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Three Questions for PayPal’s New Boss

Three Questions for PayPal’s New Boss Payment president: David Marcus of PayPal.PayPal Three Questions for PayPal’s New Boss David Marcus aims to push the service into physical stores. Wednesday, May 30, 2012 By Rachel Metz PayPal has built up its mobile offerings in the past several...

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Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains

Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level DomainsToday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed its window for new generic top-level domain name applications. ICANN will publish a list of all the applied-for strings in two weeks, but Google today already announced some of the names it applied for. Among these are, as expected, .google and .youtube. According to Google’s chief Internet evangelist and “father...

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First Impressions On Fluent, The Startup Promising “The Future Of Email”

First Impressions On Fluent, The Startup Promising “The Future Of Email”Y Combinator’s Paul Graham recently begged entrepreneurs to consider “frightening ambitious startup ideas,” like building a better search engine or replacing universities. “Any one of them could make you...

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Timing Is Everything: Indie Movie Discovery Platform Prescreen To Close Its Doors

Timing Is Everything: Indie Movie Discovery Platform Prescreen To Close Its DoorsIt was just last September that we covered the launch of Prescreen, the startup founded by former Groupon and Zoosk execs that aimed to help independent films find the publicity they nearly always lack. To do so, they built...

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Here Come the Arctic Drones

Here Come the Arctic DronesAs it becomes increasingly clear that climate change and the race for new sources of oil and gas are going to turn Earth’s poles into hotbeds of military contention, Northrup Grumman is responding by offering Canada a drone that can fly under even the harshest of conditions. The RQ-4 Global Hawk has been used by the US military for surveillance since its introduction in 1998. And now it’s going to get a second life protecting Canada...

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iPhone 5 Might be Announced on June 11 at WWDC

iPhone 5 Might be Announced on June 11 at WWDC Rumors point to a June 11 announcement for Apple’s iPhone 5 at WWDC. The biggest upgrade, its display, will reportedly be “3.999inches, with a resolution of 1136×640, giving the screen the ‘Retina’-like feel of the new iPad.” Continue reading for more pictures and information. Other hints given away by the photo – and more are available at 9to5Mac – are that Apple has redesigned the dock connector to be...

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Is This the Key to Vastly Better Batteries?

Is This the Key to Vastly Better Batteries? Power maker: This component is part of a new, cheaper process to make ionic liquids (upper left) that could greatly boost the storage capacity of batteries.Boulder Ionics Is This the Key to Vastly Better Batteries? One company thinks it’s solved a key...

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Why we need to blow the article up in order to save it (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

Why we need to blow the article up in order to save it (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM) Many media outlets â€" and not just traditional players like newspapers or magazines, but even some newer and more digital-savvy ones â€" still think of the article or the story as the bedrock foundation of news and journalism....

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Verizon to Offer 300Mbps FIOS Internet Plan

Verizon to Offer 300Mbps FIOS Internet Plan Internet users in the US who demand the fastest speeds will be happy to know that Verizon will soon offer 300Mbps / 65Mbps FIOS internet plan. To put the speeds into perspective, a “two-hour HD video can be downloaded in 2.2 minutes instead of 4.4 minutes. A batch of 10 songs can be downloaded in 1.4 seconds instead of 2.7 seconds.” Continue reading for more information and to see the slower, yet still blazing fast...

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The Chromebook’s New Ambitions

The Chromebook’s New AmbitionsGoogle, together with hardware partner Samsung, just announced the next iterations of Chromebook. Samsung’s putting out a new Chromebook laptop, as well as a “Chromebox”–essentially a desktop device. You could be forgiven for forgetting what exactly a Chromebook is. Though they launched last year with much hype, Chromebooks did not become wildly popular, in a year dominated by the rise of the tablet computer. But to refresh...

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Reeling ACTA treaty rejected by three European Parliament committees (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

Reeling ACTA treaty rejected by three European Parliament committees (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)Momentum against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continued to build on Thursday as three different committees of the European Parliament voted not to recommend adoption of the treaty. A final vote by the full European Parliament is scheduled for July. The EU-wide votes followed on the heels of a Wednesday vote in the Dutch parliament. The Dutch government...

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Real Animals as Pokemon

Real Animals as Pokemon[unable to retrieve full-text content] Pokemon may not exist in the real world, but thanks to Photoshop and a few dedicated fans, we get a look at what they would look like. First up, we have a miniature Pikachu along with Blastoise, complete with cannons. Continue reading...

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Why Parents Should Think Twice Before Password-Protecting a Computer

Why Parents Should Think Twice Before Password-Protecting a ComputerIf you’ve got a child who’s addicted to the internet, banning them from the computer entirely might be the best idea, as just putting a password on it might have dire consequences. Click here to view the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading to see what happens when goal celebrations meets special FX. Virtual Credit Card, Virtual Credit Cards INPUT kw TERMAHAL MU!!!!...

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Soviet Moon Lander Discovered Water on the Moon in 1976

Soviet Moon Lander Discovered Water on the Moon in 1976The possibility of water on the moon has excited scientists and science fiction fans for decades. If we ever decide to maintain a human presence on the moon, clear evidence of water will be an important factor in the decision.  In recent years, that evidence has begun to mount. The data comes from several sources. First there was the pioneering Clementine mission in 1994, America’s first return...

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Pill Could Reverse Effects of a Stroke Long After It Hits

Pill Could Reverse Effects of a Stroke Long After It Hits Pill Could Reverse Effects of a Stroke Long After It Hits One pharmaceutical company aims to lengthen a stroke’s drug-treatable period from hours to months. Wednesday, May 30, 2012 By Susan Young Brain attack: Strokes occur when blood...

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Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To-Play Model (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To-Play Model (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)Google Product Search is getting a new name, Google Shopping, and a new business model where only merchants that pay will be listed. It’s the first time Google will decommission a search product...

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Paralyzed Rats Walk Again

Paralyzed Rats Walk Again Paralyzed Rats Walk Again Spinal stimulation combined with assisted walking therapy generates new neural circuits and restores voluntary leg movement. Thursday, May 31, 2012 By Susan Young Stair master: After training in a supportive robotic device while receiving...

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Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward Commercialization

Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward Commercialization Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward Commercialization Printable photovoltaics could become viable, thanks to a new advance. Wednesday, May 30, 2012 By Peter Fairley Solar to dye for: The colored windows at left in a government...

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Top 5 Coolest Projects by MIT Researchers, Students

Top 5 Coolest Projects by MIT Researchers, Students MIT, or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is known for its strong emphasis on scientific and technological education as well as research. So, it’s no surprise that many of the school’s students have created some cool projects over the years. Continue reading to see five of the coolest. 5. One Trillion FPS Imaging System MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire...

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Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G LTE launching June 2 (Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)

Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G LTE launching June 2 (Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) After a patent-based delay, the HTC Evo 4G LTE is ready for its spotlight. (Credit: CNET) After a delay, Sprint and HTC have a launch date locked down for the HTC Evo 4G LTE, Sprint’s new flagship device: June 2. A patent spat with...

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The Great Bandwidth Brawl

The Great Bandwidth Brawl The Great Bandwidth Brawl Wireless networks are scrambling to feed the growing hunger for mobile data and downloads. Wednesday, May 30, 2012 By Tom Simonite Flickr Creative Commons | Henry__Spencer AT&T has a problem in Chicago. The city was one of the...

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