It’s not just the Windows UI that’s getting a complete overhaul with Windows 8. has released their redesigned logo for all the world to see. The plain, light-blue logo is reminiscent of Windows 1.0 – a throwback, in some ways, to that classic design. “We wanted the new logo to be both modern and classic […]
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Imagine driving in a car that does all the work for you – like ‘s Siri voice technology, but at the wheel of the vehicle you’re riding in – your life, in other words, in the palm of a computer’s hand. It’s not science fiction, either. This is technology already being developed. Wired has a […]
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eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor’s corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of ‘bookservative’ and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital tomes. “Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I […]
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Digital books, streaming music, apps that allow people to compare prices at brick-and-mortar stores with the price on The more we talk about these things, the more I feel like we’re having the same conversation over and over again with a slightly new twist each time: how to think about the future and the co-evolution […]
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Singer unveils the mRobo Ultra Bass portable speaker and dancing robot at the TOSY Robotics booth at the 2012 CES in . All the CES naysayers need to just go home and stop complaining that nothing big was going down at CES this year. No major innovations at CES these days? Nothing worth tweeting home […]
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Matt Yglesias points out that Apple has a patent on this: Now, this is pretty silly. In the world of software, this is like getting a patent on a doorknob. Sure, a doorknob is a very clever thing. In fact, doorknobs make doors far more useful – without them, we might not even want doors […]
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