LEGO fans can create their own programmable robot with a new device that works with the Raspberry Pi computer.
If you have a Raspberry Pi, the BrickPi system lets you convert the tiny PC into a LEGO robot, as explained in the video aboveRaspberry Pi…

Latest ad campaign smacks of desperation

Microsoft is spending big bucks to convince computer users that Google Apps are a risky bet with a new series of ads featuring Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo star Rob Schneider and disgraced athlete and former jailbird Pete Rose – neither of whom presumably come cheap.…

Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a startup that specializes in data visualization, the two companies announced Monday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Lucky Sort was founded two years ago and launched its first product called TopicWatch last February. TopicWatch let users analyze real-time trends on social media (including Twitter) as well as from other news sources. As part of the acquisition, Lucky Sort will shut down its services in the coming months.

“Our goal was to make huge document sets easier to analyze, summarize and visualize by building elegant and user friendly tools for text analysis,” Noah Pepper, CEO of Lucky Sort, wrote in a blog post. Today I’m very excited to announce that our journey has entered a new phase: Lucky Sort has been acquired by Twitter!” Twitter confirmed the acquisition in a tweet. Read more…

More about Business, Startups, and Twitter

Wikipedia, the encyclopedia of the Internet, is a constant work in progress. Its articles are being crowd-edited every minute by scores of people around the world. Now, thanks to two programmers, you can see what articles are being edited in real ti…

A hyperactive sunspot on the surface of the sun has fired off two of the most powerful solar flares of the year in just 24 hours, and promises to unleash more solar storms over the next several days, space weather experts say.
The active sunspot wen…

As part of its mission to bring its music service “everywhere,” Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Monday. The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled ve…

If the world of Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby is too glitzy for you, maybe you’d like to try on something a little more … pixelated.
Great Gatsby Game transports you back to the land of the Nintendo Entertainment System in look and feel while yo…

Ask the average American what comes to mind when they think of Silicon Valley, and you’ll often hear answers about the area’s booming technology sector. Less discussed even among the technology community is the skyrocketing number of poor and homeles…

The team at Phonesuit wants to iPhone 5 users with extra battery power, but they don’t want to cramp your already existing iPhone case’s style. So, the company released an external battery that works alongside any case. Best of all, it fits right in your pocket.

The Phonesuit Flex Pocket Charger contains a 2600 mAh battery and a Lightning charger. That battery tops the Mophie Helium, another external battery pack, by 73%. The Flex Pocket Charger is tiny enough to carry around comfortably. At an arm’s length away, it’s ready to provide when you need some extra juice for your iPhone 5.

Phonesuit claims its new device will boost iPhone 5 life by up to 125%, and the charger works with any other Lightning-era Apple device. Read more…

More about Iphone, Chargers, Iphone 5, Gadgets, and Mobile

You know that shiny new iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S4 in your pocket? You probably call it a cellphone, right? Well, Newt Gingrich says you’re wrong.
Gingrich recently posted a three-minute video arguing modern cellphones shouldn’t be called cellpho…

Vine has quickly become one of the top iPhone apps of 2013, and is arguably the most popular social media network since Instagram, which launched in 2010. Most commonly, people use Vine to create six-second snapshots of everyday life, but the more in…

Google isn’t the only company holding a mobile developer conference this weekBlackBerry’s annual BlackBerry Live conference kicks off Tuesday in Orlando.

It’s been a big year for BlackBerry. In the last four months the company has changed its name, released its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone (the BlackBerry Z10) and rolled out its first QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device, the BlackBerry Q10.

While the verdict is still out as to whether BlackBerry is truly “back” — and if it can realistically compete against the iOS and Android juggernauts — the company is certainly going into the conference in a better position than it did last year. Read more…

More about Blackberry, Tech, Mobile, Blackberry 10, and Blackberry Live

European farm equipment producer Pöttinger is looking for help, and if
you can revamp one of their existing harvesting tools to slice plants in
a neat and orderly manner, you’ll walk away with a nice cash prize for
thinking outside of the box!

While still considered a punchline by many, for others that are happy to
receive the perk of free access to American Airlines Admirals Club, Klout
has been diligently trying to find ways to up its game. No longer
content in just assessing one’s soci…

Choked by the cloud, or death by a 1,000 cuts

When Oracle announced disappointing third-quarter results in March 2013, executives at the company were quick to blame poor sales execution for a two per cent decline in new software licences and cloud software subscriptions.…

Brain wave control is hardly a new concept. It’s something scientists, designers, and inventors have been fiddling around with for years. Now, however, there might be a new source of innovation and advancement in the field: gaming.

Design eye for the QWERTY guy

“We did tablets – lots of tablets – well before Apple did, but they put these pieces together in a way that succeeded.”…

A new framework called Fries allow web developers to use their existing skills with HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create native Android apps without learning any native programming code.