Taiwanese studio Next Media Animation has blasted its re-creation of the -branded projectile.
Thursday, Google finally launched its long-rumored magazine-style publishing platform for tablets and smartphones. It's called Currents, and it's available now in the U.S. for both Android and iOS.
Jerry Robinson, the legendary comic book artist who helped create pillars of the Batman mythos like Robin, Joker, Alfred Pennyworth and Two-Face, died Wednesday in New York at the age of 89."Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture?s greatest icons," DC Entertainment co-publisher Jim Lee said in a statement. "As an ...
As we reported in last week's podcast, Jawbone's UP activity-monitoring wristbands have been failing at an alarming rate. Today, Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman issued a statement on Jawbone's website explaining the cause of the failures, and offered solutions for anyone unhappy with his or her purchase.
The government is seeking to block Bradley Manning's attorney attempt to call nearly 50 defense witnesses at a pre-trial hearing next week over the private's alleged leaking of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.
Finnish entrepreneur Timo Poij?rvi wants to change the way we discover music with Hitlantis -- a visually-impressive rethink of the traditional box of search results. The service, which is currently offered on the web as well as in iOS and Android app form, arranges its catalog as a huge circle of bubbles, with each orb representing a band or artist.
[nggallery id=97 template=carousel]After months of loosely composed images of tent encampments, bad pictures of clever signs and flat portraits of rag-tag protestors, some of the first iconic images have come out of the Occupy Wall Street movement by way of recent pepper spray photos. 84 year-old Dorli Rainey photographed in Seattle by Joshua Trujillo. Elizabeth ...
In the wake of surpassing 10 billion Android Market downloads, Google has released a detailed, visual look at the sales metrics of its store. Google's infographic reveals a number of interesting downloading stats, such as the specifics of peak downloading times, the most popular types of apps downloaded, and the most app-hungry nations worldwide.
The U.S. Army disciplined 15 people over their failure to adequately supervise suspected WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, including at least one who was demoted.
With a few liberating swipes of their paws, a group of research rats freed trapped labmates and raised anew the possibility that empathy isn't the province of humans and a few extra-smart animals, but is widespread in the animal world.
Twitter launched a site-wide redesign on Thursday, completely reworking the user interface in an effort to be better understood to a wider audience.
NYU students are trying new ways to put science on your lap.?The online magazine Scienceline's motto is "the shortest distance between you and science." Now, with the release of its brand new iPad app, that distance just got a lot shorter.Graduate students at New York University?s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (full disclosure, I'm one ...
China and Russia are apparently chomping at the bit to get a look at the American spy drone that went down over Iran. But if Iranian officials are to be believed, all they have to do is fire up YouTube to get a glimpse.
Like so many others, EMC?s Greenplum unit is dressing up Hadoop for a go at big business. On Wednesday, EMC announced a data analytics platform that starts with a structured database, adds the Hadoop Big Data software, and wraps them in a social network. Known as the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform, it handles both structured and unstructured data, incorporating the company's SQL database and Hadoop implementation and allowing data to flow from one to the other.
Google has started pulling Google+ profile information into Gmail's contacts list to show a more complete picture of your friends. The contacts list also now includes any Google+ circles in your list of groups.
If your host country won't allow you to launch a 5-story suborbital rocket, where do you go? Rocket Shop blogger and DIY space architect Kristian von Bengston provides the watery answer.
A reconstruction of a fossilized, 515-million-year-old sea monster suggests compound eyes evolved long before the typical hard, crunchy exoskeletons of arthropods.
New app-plus-accessory combo fulfills the tablet's promise as a control surface for almost any electronic tool you can think of.
Animators at game developer Naughty Dog bring characters to life by hand—which saves your PS3 from being overtaxed.
We've all heard of aerating wine. But as Vinturi demonstrates, all spirits can be improved by mixing in a little O2.
Dozens of private cord blood banks in the U.S. will, for a fee, store stem cell-rich blood taken from a newborn baby's umbilical cord. But while it's safe and legal, many health care professionals say expensive and barely useful.
Physicist Paul Davies explains that traveling to and subsisting on the Red Planet isn't the hard part—it's getting people home.
A simple invention sets the stage for trans-Atlantic telephone, cable TV and broadband internet.
When Olympic swimmers hit the water in London, they'll "feel like a superhero" wearing the most streamlined swimsuit, cap and goggles ever.
NASA's Opportunity rover has seen a mineral on Mars that could only have formed in the presence of liquid water.
The Afghans must not have gotten the message about how awesome the war is going. To make sure they do, the U.S. military is contracting out for a Pashto-language radio station, housed at the sprawling Kandahar Airfield. Cue the Afghan Robin Williams.
Melora Hardin lost out on a sweet part in the sci-fi comedy when Michael J. Fox landed the lead role. The actress talks about the missed opportunity, moving on to publicity photos.
The Art Genome, composed of some 550 "genes," offers up a formula for finding art that exactly matches your personal taste, no matter your budget.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Microsoft will be able to throw a "kill switch" to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation released earlier this week for its upcoming Windows Store.
This week saw we learned a wealth of news about tablets and Google’s Android OS. Here are five stories we think you need to know about.
Evernote's popularity has grown substantially in 2011. The note-taking app can increase your productivity and organize your sprawling digital life.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may be moving forward too fast on a plan to sell hundreds of new generic top-level domains...
Google has started pushing its Google+ social networking service further into Gmail with new features that let users add to their circles directly from their email accounts.
Microsoft plans to close 2011 with a bang--14 security bulletins are slated to be released next week for the December Patch Tuesday.
Federal agencies will soon have a government-wide security standard for assessing, authorizing and monitoring cloud products and services.
Twitter once again updates its interface--this time to bring it in line with its popular mobile apps.
Google has removed visual voicemail app YouMail from the Android Market, thanks to a complaint by T-Mobile that the app "causes adverse network disruption."
A Toshiba executive said Thursday his company will look to differentiate its tablets in emerging countries by pre-loading them with exclusive, local content.
Two U.S. lawmakers have released an alternative proposal to two controversial bills intended to crack down on online copyright infringement, and they're asking...
A Sharp executive said Thursday he was not concerned with the introduction of a rumored "iTV" designed by Steve Jobs and other smart TVs in the U.S. market, and...
The European Union’s foreign ministers issued a statement on Thursday reiterating the rights of whistleblowing websites such as Wikileaks.
Amazon Web Services customers this week are worrying about a server reboot the provider is pushing out, but if users have architected their applications...
This catapult on Kickstarter uses the power of magnetism to fling objects, but it may not be for the faint of heart.
With its app developer agreement, Microsoft makes a place for free and open source software in its upcoming Windows Store.
Microsoft quietly launches Answer Desk, a free and fee remote help desk solution for Microsoft products.
A MacBook Pro was put through the paces to see if it could keep up with the demand of multiple storage devices on a Thunderbolt daisy chain.
Nintendo general manager Shigeru Miyamoto is interested in passing the torch of big game development to established teams in order to step down and work on smaller projects.
I was already a fan of Box, and avid user of the iPhone and iPad app, but the features added in the new version make Box a must-have app for iOS devices.
Retailers are using Amazon's offer to bring up a longtime bone of contention between them and online retailers: collection of sales taxes.
Scientists discover new mammoth bones with intact bone marrow and begin a joint project to clone a living woolly mammoth within a few years.
Four residents of Romania have been charged for their alleged participation in a multimillion-dollar scheme to remotely access point-of-sale systems at more than...
A French court has denied Samsung's preliminary injunction request to stop the sale of Apple's iPhone 4S, both parties confirmed on Thursday.
Skype cofounder Niklas Zennstrom is a driving force behind the start-up company, which has signed a wholesale network agreement to provide the service.
IBM is buying analytics vendor DemandTec for US$440 million in a bid to build out its line of e-commerce software, the companies announced Thursday. The...
Acer says it will concentrate on selling Intel's new class of super-thin laptops in established markets such as the United States.
Gemnet, a Dutch company that provides SSL certificates for the Dutch government, has closed down its website after it was compromised by a hacker who found...
A manual for Nokia's Lumia 710 has appeared on the Federal Communications Commission website and T-Mobile has been sending out invitations for an event with Nokia.
Text-message spam is coming under close scrutiny from the U.K.'s data protection authority, which is trying to blunt an increasing wave of insurance industry and...
The app features a new navigation menu and moves the notifications and messages to the top, similar to the iOS version.
Cloud gaming service brings titles like Batman Arkham City and Assassin's Creed Revelations to tablets and smartphones.
Verizon said in the past 24 hours, some 4G LTE customers have reported that their devices are operating on 3G data service where they would normally get 4G.
Facebook is making online privacy headlines once again, but privacy issues are not limited to Facebook, and this certainly won't be the last time data gets exposed.
A limited quantity of refurbished TouchPads will reportedly go on sale at HP's eBay Store starting at 6 p.m. Central Time (7 p.m. Eastern) on Sunday, December 11.
Micro Focus has adapted its SilkPerformer platform for testing of mobile web applications, in a effort to help users improve performance, the company said on...
Chinese authorities continue to inspect a factory that produces aluminum casings for Apple's MacBook laptops, following residents' complaints of unbearable odors...
With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix...
Microsoft and General Electric's healthcare IT business are setting up a 50:50 joint venture to develop and market an open, interoperable technology platform and...
Microsoft is hoping to capture the next generation of PCs and tablets in one fell swoop with Windows 8, but straddling the line between the two worlds is more complicated than it might seem.
GeekBytes takes a look at some holiday themed hacks and gifts.
As tablets move into their adolescence, what changes will we see?
Best Buy is selling the 16GB Asus Eee Pad Transformer for only $299.
Pay only $669 for a Panasonic 42-inch 3D plasma HDTV at B&H, and shipping is free.
Use a coupon code and pay only $703 for a just-released HP Folio 13 Ultrabook.
Here is a look at some of the best cloud services of late 2011 compared.
The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad range of users...
Evernote Food and Evernote Hello make it easier to keep track of the food you eat or the people you meet. We tried them both out.
I love reading, and I love books. I don't care much about the medium--paper or digital, it's all the same to me, for the most part.
Employees don't have to suffer under the tyranny of a bad boss. Management experts say employees possess the power to soften a bad boss's sharp edges. Here are some tips.