Sphero goes modular, spins out for a drive (video)

Sphero’s hooked up with a new whip, albeit a retro-fitted one. Skylar, a Junior Developer at Orbotix, modded an old RC car with an Arduino board, H-bridge and a few trackball parts, enabling the remote control ball to serve as its brain. Just in time too — there’s only so much fun you can have getting

How Apple Could Fight The Bots, Scams And Other App Store Junk

No platform is perfect. Not even Apple’s. Over the last few weeks, there has been a flood of news about malfeasance in the app store from download bots to credit card scams to address-book sharing. I broke a few stories about app-related credit card fraud originating from Taobao, the eBay of China, and

EverQuest turns 13, blows out the subscription candles (video)

EverQuest? More like Ever-cost — until now that is. The popular subscription-based game has dropped the need for recurring charges as the franchise marks its thirteenth year on the scene. If you’re still set on forking out that $14.99 for full access, you can, but there’s now a one-time $5 silver membership

Microsoft construye un navegador para tu pasado

Un prototipo de software llamado Lifebrowser utiliza inteligencia artificial para ayudarte a revisitar eventos, fotos y correos importantes de tu propia vida.

Apple’s new Apple TV goes through teardown

A lot of focus has been placed on Apple’s new iPad, but of course there was another new device revealed this month. The new Apple TV is perhaps even more interesting since Apple’s push to enter the living room market hasn’t been as successul as its tablet endeavors. So what did it bring

How would you change the Nook Tablet?

It’s hard not to make a series of reductive comparisons between the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire. After all, it’s the conflict between Barnes & Noble and Amazon that frames these two 7-inch tablet / e-reader hybrids. This one is $50 more expensive, but is technically more impressive: you get more

Apple conference call to be held concerning excess cash

Apple CEO Tim Cook has admitted his company has too much cash lying around. Way too much. In fact, it has nearly $100 billion just resting in the bank. Cook has said that it’s unncessary to have that much dough without doing anything with it. He noted that it should be spent on advancing the Read

How Startups Are Key To The Economic Recovery

Despite the promise brought by the latest round of successful IPOs and rallying public markets, the news continues to be filled with headlines around the possibility of a "false recovery." Europe’s continent-wide recession and expanding debt issues, rising oil and gasoline prices, an only-modest improvement

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: cloning a woolly mammoth, mesmerizing kinetic facade and LED-suited break dancers

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. This week Inhabitat reported on several breaking technological controversies as South Korean scientists announced plans to clone a woolly mammoth and a group of

Is your new iPad heating up?

Apple’s latest hot ticket seems to be a tad too hot to hold, some users are reporting. New iPad owners on the MacRumors forums and Apple’s own support community complain that the slab’s lower left corner can get a little warm during extended use. Don’t get excited though, reports seem to vary by user