Fearless News : Purposeful, credible, intelligent articles. Healthy food for hungry brains.

News from at 51 minutes ago

Google has Google Trends, Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia. The homepage ranks the top-25 Wikipedia articles with the most pageviews over the past 30 days, as well as the fastest rising articles in t More

  0 comments   Read Here   TechCrunch Direct

News from at 51 minutes ago

FlyScreen, the mobile phone lock-screen replacement from Israeli startup Cellogic, has added Foursquare integration to its Android app ahead of this year's South by Southwest festival. The new Foursquare widget lets users of the location-based social network access its main features, including the  More

  0 comments   Read Here   TechCrunch Direct

News from at 52 minutes ago

It looks like T-Mobile's webConnect Rocket USB modem will be released right on schedule, even if you currently have to be in Philadelphia to enjoy those HSPA+ speeds (then again, if you're in Philadelphia you probably deserve a break). Accordingly, folks jumping on that March 14 release date can exp More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at 52 minutes ago

What's a Game Developers Conference without some sweet new tools for developers to sink their teeth into? Khronos Group, the association behind OpenGL, has today announced the fourth generation of its cross-platform API spec, which takes up the mantle of offering a viable competitor to Microsoft's D More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at 52 minutes ago

When we first spied Huawei's SmaKit S7 Android tablet, we were at CeBit and it was... well, non-functioning. Well Huawei's officially announced the tablet now, and we have to say that it looks just like every other Android tablet being hoisted upon the world these days, but it's got some nice featur More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at 52 minutes ago

itwbennett writes "In a 45-minute press conference at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony announced its motion controller, officially named the Playstation Move. The Move, consists of the Eye Toy (a camera pointed at the player) and a wand-like controller with a lighted ball at the More

  0 comments   Read Here   Slashdot Direct

News from at at 8:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful cross-platform sys More

  0 comments   Read Here   TechCrunch Direct

News from at at 8:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

Opera's Mini 5 beta finally hit Android in the wee hours of this morning and, while writing about what it looks like is nice, we thought a little walk-through to demonstrate the impressive speed of the thing was worthwhile. So we have a short video for you below, with a comparison against the stock  More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at at 8:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

At this point we really need another tablet like we need another hole in the head, but when this one could cost around $100 and still look quite good, well, it's worth talking about. It's the Hott MD500, an Android device with a 4.8-inch, 800 x 480 screen and plenty of OS customizations to make it r More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

If I were a spit takin' man, I'd do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn't meanness on Motorola's part although Reuters notes that this move could More

  0 comments   Read Here   TechCrunch Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

I handle a lot of mice in this job (right now I'm using the Mionix Naos 5000) and I have to say that if a mouse were, like the Magic Mouse, shaped completely wrong for human hands, I would throw it away and never speak of it again. Others, while perhaps more crafty, are far less principled, and will More

  0 comments   Read Here   TechCrunch Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

As mobile gaming takes off, developers will need in-depth analysis to determine consumer behavior with their games and adjust their games accordingly. Motally, which provides user-action tracking services for the mobile web and apps, is expanding its product base today offering a targeted analytics  More

  0 comments   Read Here   TechCrunch Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

Remember the HarmoNESica? A brief refresher, then: it's what happens when you've got a copy of Super Tecmo Bowl, a Pocket Pal harmonica, and the desire to create a unique musical instrument. But if you don't have any of the aforementioned ingredients and just want the end result, eBay's got you cove More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

Unless they're incredibly quiet or potentially explosive, you won't find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We'd tell you about that in a heartbeat -- even if the wonderfully wastef More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

It looks like TiVo's freshly minted Premiere hardware will soon be setting sail eastwards as The Daily Telegraph is reporting Virgin Media's next generation set-top box will be built around it. Loyal readers of Engadget HD will already be aware that TiVo and Virgin hooked up last November and this l More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

CWmike writes "Two insurance organizations in upstate New York said on Wednesday that they will offer their members and employers virtual physician visits beginning this summer, making New York the fourth state to provide these types of services. BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, BlueShield  More

  0 comments   Read Here   Slashdot Direct

News from at at 7:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

Ninjakicks writes "Although they won't hit store shelves for a few more weeks, today Intel has officially unveiled the new Core i7-980X Extreme processor. The Core i7-980X Extreme is based on Intel's 32nm Gulftown core, derived from their Nehalem architecture and sports six execution cores. The chip More

  0 comments   Read Here   Slashdot Direct

News from at at 6:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

Do you remember to the days of college, when you were required to sort through your curriculum and career goals with your designated college advisor? Education startup MyEdu aims to replace this by helping students virtually access their academic information and create a roadmap tailored to their c More

  0 comments   Read Here   TechCrunch Direct

News from at at 6:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

Seriously, who told manufacturers that we're in love with garish LED status lights?ASUS has strapped a glowing orb of unnecessariness around the volume knob of the Cine5 -- an otherwise perfectly acceptable and appreciably diminutive PC soundbar. With an array of speaker drivers integrated into that More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct

News from at at 6:10 AM on Thursday 3/11

Words... what good are words when you're trying to describe the horrific visage of a growling, rugged, heavyweight camera coated in the frilly tutu of the color spectrum, magenta? We shan't try to describe the peculiar mix of revolt, disgust and subtle desire that this whole thing incites in us, and More

  0 comments   Read Here   Engadget Direct