Chipworks, iFixit tear down the Galaxy S III for all to see, spot iPhone 4S’ camera sensor hanging around

You’ve picked up the Galaxy S III. You’ve grabbed the source code. But you probably like the quad-core monster too much to tear it down, which is why Chipworks and iFixit have taken to disassembling the phone for themselves to look fro any surprises. We certainly knew to expect the Exynos 4 Quad and

‘O Fortuna’ Animation Filled with Memes, Misheard Lyrics [VIDEO]

This is far from the first “O Fortuna” animation to appear on YouTube. The Latin poem, set to music by composer Carl Orff and most famous…

Emotion Measurement Platform Affectiva Wins $500K NSF Grant

Affectiva, a startup that tries to measure the emotional response people have to ads and brands, just announced that it has a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

The company spun out of MIT’s Media Lab. This is its second NSF grant — in January 2011, it won another grant to help launch

Netflix is now #1 online movie service in US

When it comes to watching movies online, many of you may have thought that Netflix was already at the top of the list. But according to IHS iSuppli, it used to be Apple. The amount of people who tuned to Netflix for their digital movie needs grew 44% compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, iTunes’s

Portable Electricty Generator Uses a Single Tea Light For Power [VIDEO]

One inexpensive tea candle can power a 25 LED bulb for up to four hours or charge an auxiliary battery pack using the patent-pending device, tPOD1. G…

Older Internet Users Pick Better Passwords Than Teens [STUDY]

Teens and young adults may be considered more tech-savvy than their elders, but when it comes to password security, wisdom comes with age.
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PlayStation Vita YouTube app incoming

Very soon, PlayStation Vita owners will be able to watch talking cats and laughing babies without needing to break out their smartphone, laptop, or iPad. Of course, this won’t be reason enough to ditch those handy items but it will be a nice mid-game distraction to hop on over to the PlayStation

8 Tools for Hacking Your Productivity

Startups are hard work; I can often find myself working until 2 or 3 a.m several nights in a row, then getting up to come in at 10 a.m. and start a…

ComScore: Android’s US share dips ever so slightly, iPhone slowly marching up

Here’s a minor surprise: Android slipping at all in US market share. Although it saw just a tiny drop of two tenths of a point from where it was in March, and still saw a gain over January, Google’s platform was down to 50.8 percent in April. Nothing dramatic enough to make Mountain View worry, as such,

BlindSquare: App Uses Foursquare Data to Help the Blind Navigate Streets

The 20 million+ people worldwide on Foursquare have created an incredibly detailed crowdsourced directory. BlindSquare is a new app that’s…