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Teens Starting to See Facebook as Old and Creepy

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Facebook may have a budding problem on its hands with its teenagers, suggests a report released Tuesday by Pew Research Center. Teens expressed waning enthusiasm for Facebook in focus groups, according to Pew, saying they disliked the growing number of adults on the site, were annoyed by "inane" status updates, and viewed the drama commonly played out on Facebook as draining. Finally, managing their reputation on Facebook was stressful they said. However, teens seemed to be far more favorably disposed toward Twitter than in the past. [More...]

Microsoft Could Be Saving Xbox One's Best for E3

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Microsoft's new Xbox One video game console, announced with fanfare on Tuesday, is certainly a step forward -- but the early reaction has been mixed at best. Much of the massive attention it caught from Twitter users, for example, seems to be anything but positive. There's a perception that Microsoft focused too much on living room entertainment and too little on gaming. [More...]

Qualcomm Puts Super High-Res Mirasol Magic on Display

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Qualcomm, which has been struggling to market its futuristic Mirasol display technology, demoed the product at the 2013 Display Week conference being held in Vancouver, Canada. The company displayed a 5.1-inch panel with 2,560 x 1,440 pixel resolution. It also put demoed a 1.5-inch panel embedded on a smartphone and on a smartwatch, but these were apparently mockups. [More...]

WHICH APPS DO I NEED?
All Things Appy: Top 5 Firefox Social Networking Tools

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

This week we take a look at the top five must-have social networking tools for the Mozilla Firefox desktop environment. Social networks have taken mobile by storm, but the PC is still a player -- particularly based on its copious screen real estate. Aggregation across social networks, one-click helpers, easy search, sharing, and detailed image viewing present themselves well in this field. [More...]

TECH TREK
Amid Threats From Anonymous, Guantanamo WiFi Shut Down

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Despite cries from the Left, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is still up and running. The same, however, can't be said for Guantanamo's WiFi. The U.S. military turned off wireless Internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base amid threats from the hacker collective Anonymous. Officials have also nixed access to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, a spokesperson for the prison said. [More...]

Yahoo Throws in 1 TB of Free Storage With Flickr Revamp

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Yahoo has announced the overhaul of Flickr, its photo and video sharing site, after purchasing social microblogging website Tumblr. The new Flickr has "a beautiful, completely reimagined experience that puts photos front and center," Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote in a blog post that is reminiscent of what Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said when announcing his company's overhaul of NewsFeed. [More...]

3D Food Printer Could Sustain Long-Distance Space Explorers

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

In space no one can hear you call out for pizza, but technology being developed in a NASA-funded project might let astronauts print one instead -- or any number of potentially delectable meals. Systems and Materials Research Corporation received a $125,000 grant from NASA to build a prototype device that prints food. [More...]

LINUX PICKS AND PANS
Midnight Commander Will Whip Your Files Into Shape

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Midnight Commander is one of those original computing tools that keeps getting better with age. It may be old school, but its file managing capabilities keep it at the head of its class. Midnight Commander is a text-mode file manager that runs in a terminal. It uses a two-panel interface and a subshell for command execution. It is reminiscent of the Norton Commander file manager. [More...]

IBM Suits Up Watson to Tackle Thorny Customer Service Problems

Tuesday - May 21, 2013

IBM on Tuesday announced that it will offer Watson -- its artificial intelligence software package that won the Jeopardy game show -- as a customer service solution called "Watson Engagement Advisor," a cognitive computing assistant that rapidly learns, adapts and understands a company's data. [More...]

Microsoft Packs Xbox One With Home Entertainment Power

Tuesday - May 21, 2013

Microsoft has officially unveiled the Xbox One, promising it will usher in a new generation of games, TV and entertainment. The One comes a dozen years after the original Xbox video game console debuted, and eight years after its best-selling Xbox 360 proved that Microsoft was a serious contender in the gaming arena. The reveal took place at an event at its Redmond, Wash., campus on Tuesday. [More...]

Teenager's Power Storage Project Lights Up Science World

Tuesday - May 21, 2013

Interest in nanochemistry research and energy storage led 18-year-old Eesha Khare, a senior at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, Calif., to develop a supercapacitor that could potentially be used in flexible displays and fabrics. Her effort won her first prize at the Intel Science Fair and the Project of the Year award in the California State Science Fair's senior division for 2013. [More...]

TECH TREK
Congressional Investigation Scopes Apple's Web of Tax Havens

Tuesday - May 21, 2013

A series of subsidiaries spanning numerous countries have helped Apple avoid billions in United States taxes, congressional investigators reported Monday. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., head of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is looking into Apple's suspected transgressions, said that Apple "sought the holy grail of tax avoidance." [More...]

Food Testing for Safe Tasting

Tuesday - May 21, 2013

As parents of children with peanut sensitivities well know, awareness of what's in their kids' food is of paramount importance. In order to detect this allergen -- and many others -- engineers at UCLA have created a system called iTube. It involves placing a small amount of food in a test tube, shining a light on it, and then using a smartphone's camera and a specially-designed app. [More...]

Stay and StatsBar Worthy Additions to a Mac's Utility Belt

Tuesday - May 21, 2013

Designers of operating systems can't think of everything that should be in their programs. Utilities are a testament to that. Utilities are software programs that do things that should have been included in an operating system, but weren't. They can help you keep your system performing at top speed or solve irritating problems. [More...]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Neo Technology's Emil Eifrem: 'Cloud Is the New Open Source'

Tuesday - May 21, 2013

Graphs are everywhere. You find them on websites adding social capabilities. Telecommunications companies use graphs to personalize customer services. Innovative bioinformatics researchers, and other organizations are adopting graph databases to model and query connected data. Neo Technology has pioneered graph databases since 2000. [More...]

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