The Ground Beneath Apple’s Walled Garden

Apple’s blanket rejection of apps accessing UDIDs is just the latest in a long line of erratic behavior on Apple’s part of enforcing the rules of the iOS App Store. Sure, Apple warned developers that they were deprecating UDID, but like many of Apple’s Solomonic pronouncements about the iOS App Store

Paper: the iPad sketchbook app from the brains of Courier (video)

Go figure — Microsoft’s Courier project lives again… as an exclusive app on Apple’s iPad. FiftyThree, a company that features folks who previously worked on the aforesaid Courier initiative, has just put forth a monumental effort dubbed Paper. The app, which is available for free in the App Store,

UK’s National Media Museum opens permanent ‘Life Online’ gallery

Planning to be in the neighborhood of Bradford, England anytime soon? Then you may want to set aside some time for a visit to the National Media Museum, which will tomorrow officially open what’s being described as the "world’s first gallery dedicated to exploring the social, technological and cultural

Israeli-American Accelerator UpWest Labs Graduates Its First Batch Of Startups

When it comes to countries with thriving startup ecosystems, Israel ranks among the best. With nearly 5,000 startups currently in business — second only to the U.S. — the country’s pool of entrepreneurial talent has been attracting Western businesses and entrepreneurs for years. But, in January, Gil

Grace Digital’s FireDock is a speaker dock for your Kindle Fire

Own a Kindle Fire? Can’t find an audio dock made specifically for your gizmo, and not an iThing or Android device? Say hello to Grace Digital’s FireDock, the $130 solution to your quandary. While we’ve seen Kindle-compatible docks before, this stereo system is actually made to seamlessly connect with

Amazon CEO Bezos to Rescue Apollo 11 Rocket Engines From the Briny Deep

Minutes after the historic Apollo 11 mission launched in July 1969, its five F-1 engines were discharged and dropped safely into the Atlantic Oc…

Mashable Photo Challenge Results: What’s In Your Laptop Bag?

Mashable’s first weekly photo challenge is complete, and the photos are in. We asked you to show us What’s in Your Laptop Bag?
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Informes Biomed: Mejor calidad de vida gracias a la realidad virtual

Los avances en esta área, en combinación con otras tecnologías, muestran su potencial para lograr la autonomía de personas con movilidad reducida y minimizar daños colaterales.

Verizon’s CEO has a plan for wireless pay-TV, if the government will allow it

Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam doesn’t quite have all of those SpectrumCo AWS licenses in his pocket just yet, but if he does get them he has a decidedly old school idea of what to flood the airwaves with: TV. The Wall Street Journal quotes him saying Verizon and its new cable friends could have "the beginnings

South Pole Explorer Flips Over Secret Stash of Frozen Treats [VIDEO]

If you thought Katniss Everdeen was hardcore, meet explorer Aleksander Gamme, who spent 100 days crossing the South Pole by himself. By day 86, howev…