HTC One: HTC Claims to Reinvent Smartphone With Latest Android Phone
HTC is kicking off the start of Android phone season. At an event in New York City today, the Taiwan-based company announced its latest flagship Android phone — the HTC One. “We think it’s time to shake things up in the smartphone space,” Mike Woodward, President of HTC America, told…
Robot cars are here
Would you trust your car to drive itself? Google is asking the populations of two states in the US to take that chance. The robot taxi, common in science fiction since the 1950s, is now set to become a reality. The fully autonomous Google car has passed the legal hurdles…
iPad Usage Far Ahead of the Rest of the Pack. LinkedIn Gives Every Employee …
Chitika Insights measured tablet web traffic during the week of January 19 to 25 in the US and Canada and the iPad had by far the highest usage at 81% with the Kindle Fire at 7.7%. The bar chart and the line graph covering the December and January timeframe compared Due to the heavier…
Broadway flop ‘Scandalous’ a costly investment for Foursquare Church
There was no divine intervention for the musical “Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson.” The Broadway show about evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson written by TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford opened and closed within a month. The Foursquare Church, a global Christian denomination based in Echo Park, watched…
Watch a Robot Interview Portlandia’s Fred Armisen
Here at Wired we don’t fear losing our jobs to robots in fact, we advocate for it. So when Fred Armisen stopped by the Wired office after the SF Sketchfest tribute to his Peabody Award-winning show Portlandia, we decided to let our robot Rob-EE do the talking. Armisen and Rob-EE…
Foursquare Church burns; blaze threatened nearby homes
Derrick Miller The Duncan Banner The Duncan Banner Mon Feb 18, 2013, 05:44 PM CST DUNCAN Duncan firefighters will remain on the scene at Fifth and Pine overnight as they watch for hot spots after spending Monday battling a fire that destroyed the Foursquare Gospel Church and threatened neighboring homes. Attacking the fire…
What do you get when you cross a robot with an octopus?
Inspired by the way they grasp objects, the Army is developing self-sealing suction cups for robots — just like those on an octopus. The design, from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and University of Maryland scientists, features a self-sealing component and the capability to activate suction…
Firefighters “In Defense Mode” at Foursquare Gospel Church
DUNCAN Okla_ A raging fire has engulfed the Four Square Church in Duncan in flames.7News Reporter Sara Whaley is on the scene gathering the footage and information. We hope to know more on how the fire A church burned to the ground in Duncan Monday, after being put up…
Twitter hack to hinder e-commerce service uptake
The recent hack on Twitter which affected 250,000 users will have left subscribers uneasy over linking their microblogging accounts to their American Express credit card accounts to conduct e-commerce activities. The saving grace would be American Express’ efforts in beefing up its online transaction security these past years, which should convince…
After withdrawing from Japan, BlackBerry is reportedly considering an exit …
Last month BlackBerry (as the company formerly known as RIM) revealed that it would not release BlackBerry 10 devices in Japan and would instead withdraw from the market. Now media in Korea suggest the Canadian company may exit that market too, leaving during the first half of 2013. Korean news wire Yonhap…
