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LONDON, United Kingdom When Tim Cook gave his keynote speech on Apple’s iOS7 last month, he described it as “the world’s most advanced operating system.” Press coverage focused on the minimalist, skeumorph-less interface, the “control centre” for quick-access to the most-used features and the fullscreen view. But it was the…
Swimming robot hunts overpopulated jellyfish and shreds them
There’s a new, deadly predator in the sea, but swimmers need not be worried: it’s a man-made tool designed to hunt down jellyfish. As jellyfish populations explode due to warming waters and overfishing, researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have worked to combat them by…
LG Electronics unveils curved smartphone in race against Samsung
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc unveiled a curved smartphone on Monday in a move to catch up bigger rival Samsung Electronics Co. Curved displays and flexible screens are the new battleground for phone makers as the screens open up possibilities that could eventually transform the high-end smartphone…
Casey Neistat Records Journey To New York For Foursquare Co-Founder’s …
Casey is attending the ceremony of Chelsea Skees and her famous beau, Dennis Crowley — co-founder of the popular Foursquare location-based app. See Casey skate through Paris traffic to catch the first flight out Saturday morning, to land in NYC at 1 … Keep reading…
Stepping Out Of The Lab: Steve Cousins’ New Robotics Company
Exclusive for Forbes At the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, several of the leading voices in robotics, including Rodney Brooks, CEO of Rethink Robotics, and Steve Cousins, former CEO of Willow Garage gathered to have a candid discussion about the future of robotics. Steve Cousins, Founder & CEO, Savioke Cousins, also…
Atlantic Broadband announces TiVo service
Atlantic Broadband will offer a new TiVo digital entertainment service in Aiken come December. Atlantic Broadband announced on Tuesday with TiVo, Inc., a digital video recording service company, the start of the country’s first cable service provider to offer TiVo’s newest digital service. “There’s been a little confusion in the…
Windows 8 a small first step to fixing the software update problem
According to a study by Secunia, which makes software to detect and update third party application software, ” [o]n a typical PC, users have to master 25 different update mechanisms to patch the 75 programs on it, in order to remediate vulnerabilities”. Few of them are totally automatic, and so Microsoft started…
Mobile Ads Fuel a Jump in Profit at Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO Perhaps Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, should ditch the hoodie and dress up as a mobile phone for Halloween. After all, that’s how half of his company’s users connect to the social network and where half of its advertising revenue comes from. He just has to be careful…
gdgt’s best deals for October 30th: Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13, 55-inch LG 4K …
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Netflix Gets Boost From TiVo in Its Cable-TV Bid
San Francisco Netflix, pressing cable operators to grant equal footing to its Web-based films and television shows on their pay-TV systems, is getting an assist from set-top box maker TiVo. Netflix, the world’s largest subscription streaming service, is in discussions with U.S. cable-TV providers to add its application to their…
