Robotics Team Teaching Their Robot to Play Basketball
Aditya Aswani, team member from Daniel High, working on the pneumatic control system for the robot. slideshow It’s not every day that you get to be part of a team that designs, builds and teaches a robot to play basketball, but that is exactly what the members of Pickens County…
Fort Greene Park Goes WiFi
Fort Greene Park became the 18th park in the five boroughs to receive free WiFi service on Thursday, joining an increasing number of public spaces to receive Internet service via a partnership between city agencies and wireless providers. The greenspace joins other free WiFi locations in the borough, including Herbert…
Apple to Bring iPhone, iPad Features to Mac
CUPERTINO, Calif.Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook wants to make its Mac more like an iPhone. CEO Tim Cook said the next version of Apple’s Macintosh OS, “Mountain Lion,” due in late summer, would incorporate features from the software that powers Apple’s hit mobile devices, Jessica Vascellaro reports on…
Des Moines checks into Foursquare
By TD WebmasterPublished: February 15, 2012 Last Modified: February 15, 2012 7:29 PMPosted in: NewsTags: Around Des Moines Photo: Carter Oswood Ladies and gentlemen, Des Moines just became a little bit cooler. With the help of a new social media strategies course being offered at Drake this semester, the city of Des Moines now has…
Smartphone apps dial up privacy worries
A new furor has erupted over digital privacy concerns following disclosures that Twitter Inc. and other social networking companies are reaching into people’s smartphones and retrieving their personal contact information without getting explicit permission. Twitter acknowledged this week that anyone who used its “Find Friends” feature on iPhones and Android…
Amazon pulls iPad 2 tablets from Chinese site
Summary: After a request from Apple, Amazon has pulled iPad 2 tablets from its online shelves in China, as it is not an authorised seller. Proview claims to have no involvement in the action. Apple has asked Amazon to remove resellers’ iPad 2 tablets from its Chinese website, as the site Although…
Asian Air Travelers Ask: Where’s Our Wifi?
Massive commercial aviation deals and talk of increased defense spending may have grabbed headlines at this year’s Singapore Air Show, but as the world’s biggest names in commercial travel gathered, some had a different question on their mind where’s our WiFi? Though travelers in the U.S. on carriers like American…
Virgin Media Tivo: set-top box TV recorder
Tivo is the new set-top TV recorder available to Virgin Media customers. It is more expensive than the existing V+ box and duplicates some of its features such as pausing and rewinding live TV, and ‘series link’ recordings. But it’s also much more intuitive than V+ and can cleverly ‘learn’…
Beaverton is the least romantic US city, Foursquare finds
Foursquare has determined that the city is the least romantic in the United States. According to this geeksugar post, Foursquare studied 1.5 billion check-ins on the location-based social app and looked for places deemed romantic. Think wine bars, flower shops and French restaurants, and Beaverton comes up short. Perhaps it doesn’t…
Google+ For iOS Finally Gets Instant Picture Uploading !
Google+ has been available for Apple devices for quite some time, but the option to automatically upload your photos has been missing since it release. The feature, which has been available on the Android version since its release, enables you to automatically upload photos from your device to Google+. That…
