PSA: Virgin Media begins charging for tube WiFi today
Virgin Media WiFi on London Underground update more stations coming online As you’re probably aware, free WiFi on London Underground is coming to an end this month. But, from 29th January, millions of Virgin Media, Vodafone, EE, T-Mobile and Orange customers can stay connected at no extra cost thanks to…
Apple releases new iPad with 128 GB of storage
Everything else about Apple’s tablet is the same, including the dual-core A6X processor, 2 gigabtyes of RAM, and 10 hours of battery life. To account for the added storage space, the 128 GB Wi-Fi model will now cost $799, while the LTE model will cost $929. To offer some differentiation from its other iPads…
More details leak of Apple’s rumored ‘budget’ iPhone
A new model aimed at building market share in countries such as China and Brazil will combine styling cues from across the existing iPhone and iPod range. As rumors continue to surface that Apple is planning a low-cost iPhone to build its customer base in China and Brazil, one site,…
NASA’s RASSOR robot shape-shifts to haul lunar soil, help make fuel and water
NASA believes our return to the Moon could be sustained by extracting water from the lunar soil to produce air and even fuel. But how to get large amounts of that soil without bringing heavy, failure-prone machinery? The agency’s RASSOR (pronounced “razor”) excavator robot might do the trick. Rather than…
Facebook could pay users in class-action Sponsored Stories settlement
Million of Facebook users got a notice that they may be eligible for a class-action payout from Mark Zuckerberg’s company. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) But don’t get your hopes up just yet: Your chances of actually seeing that much cash are pretty slim. In April 2011, five Facebook users filed a…
Geek deals: D-Link WiFi home security camera, BioShock Infinite pre-order, more
Many of the pet owners reading Geek, myself included, have probably wondered what exactly our furry (or slithery?) babies do during the day. Are they secretly cleaning themselves on your pillow, investigating your cabinets, or just sleeping innocently on the couch? Thanks to technology these days it is plenty easy…
InMoov: A 3-D-Printed Robot For The Home
A French sculptor is developing a 3-D printed robot which can be made for under $1,000. The InMoov is an open-source, life-sized animatronic robot which can be manufactured by anyone with a basic 3-D printer. Developer Gael Langevin told CNN’s George Webster that building the robot is “about as difficult InMoov…
Netbook learning
PHILOMATH One by one, students filed out of the computer lab at Philomath Middle School on Wednesday. Tucked under their arms were black Acer netbooks, which they opened and activated when they sat down at tables in the school library. Then the students quickly started using the netbooks to research…
Telcos’ six-strikes plan could kill public WiFi
As America’s phone and cable companies roll out their “six strikes” plans (which they voluntarily adopted in cooperation with the big film companies), it’s becoming clear that operating a public Internet hotspot is going to be nearly impossible. Anyone operating a hotspot will quickly find that it can no longer…
Facebook’s Categorial Imperative
Facebook’s newest feature adds some much-needed relevance to the huge proportion of its data hoard that no user has seen or, if we’re honest, thought about, in days, weeks, or years. But Graph Search is ultimately nothing more than a handy sorting algorithm, and it’s indicative of the fact that…
