Woodlawn High to host robotics competition Saturday
Woodlawn High School will play host Saturday to a robotics competition that will pit the high school against Baton Rouge rival Parkview Baptist as well as as 18 teams from across the state as well as Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas. The event is free and open to the public, with doors…
Tracks is a film for the Wifi generation
Author Robyn Davidson, whose remarkable real-life journey forms the basis of the new film Tracks, said at the Venice Film Festival that the film will resonate with young people who need to get away from modern life. The theme of solitude as a tool to aid self-discovery is central to…
Facebook’s value climbs above $100bn for first time
Facebook has been pushing hard on its mobile strategy. Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Facebook bobbed above a $100bn market capitalisation for the first time on Monday, almost exactly one year since its record low. Last week, Facebook’s stock rose to $38 its IPO value for the first time, Coincidentally,…
Discovery-oriented Foursquare app arrives on Windows 8
Foursquare delivered a version of its social networking app for Microsoft’s Windows 8 on Wednesday, focusing more on local discovery than actually checking in and meeting friends. For Foursquare, the app allows the company to continue pushing away from its roots as a way to alert friends of your location, and…
Syrian Electronic Army Twitter Account Claims Twitter.com Takeover
A Twitter account allegedly belonging to the Syrian Electronic Army claimed to have taken over Twitter.com, though the site appeared to be functioning normally. The hacker group’s apparent Twitter account claimed it hacked into Twitter’s registry account, or what is known as a domain name server (DNS). The account…
We give up! Sony and Samsung relent on bloated 4K prices with major discounts
Sony and Samsung are slashing prices on their 4K/Ultra HDTV sets by as much as $1,500, and LG may soon follow with a new, less-featured and less-expensive line of Ultra HDTVs as well, according to TWICE magazine. Citing “multiple retail sources,” TWICE reports that Samsung issued price cuts on its…
Twitter Updates Android, iOS And Web With New Conversation View, Abuse …
Twitter has just released an update for iOS, Android and the web application with a brand new interface for conversations, as well as enhanced sharing and abuse reporting capabilities. According to the official blog post, the idea is to make it easier to follow and discover conversations. With the updates,…
Robot Rodeo puts robots bomb squads to the test
No, it doesn’t involve any tasseled cowboys (roboboys?) trying to stay seating on a bucking BigDog. Nor is there any prize for roping a speeding cheetah-bot in the shortest amount of time. Still, the annual Western National Robot Rodeo has plenty of events, and while they might be quite the…
New images of the iPad 5 front panel leak
Apple’s management team must hate the name Sonny Dickson by now. The website continues to leak high resolution images of what look to be legitimate, near final components for upcoming Apple devices. Recently Sonny has leaked images of the iPhone 5C, 5S, new iPad Mini, and today we get the…
TiVo Roamio Reinvents the Cable Box for the Digital Streaming Age
With the TiVo Roamio line, TiVo hopes to marry the cable TV with digital streaming services. But is it enough to keep the company relevant? I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for TiVo. Even before I bought my first TiVo box back in 2003, I was a The…
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