Given the high-profile “patent wars” between Samsung, Apple, Google, and other tech companies in recent years, it’s easy to forget that patents actually have value beyond their utility in a courtroom. Here’s a nice reminder. Samsung announced today that it’s teaming up with a crowdsourcing site, Marblar , to […]
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A guerilla street artist stalks the streets of Brampton: 23-year-old Dorota Pankowska wanders the Ontarian city, looking for surfaces to tag with the logos of well-known brands. The twist? Call her Food Banksy: Her graffiti is done with ketchup, mayonnaise, peanut butter, coffee, and more. For Pankowska, the medium […]
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There’s a formula for pi, so why not for pie (pizza pie)? Pizza–of which the round kind has an area of pi times radius squared–is among the world’s most beloved foods. Yet what constitutes pizza differs greatly and passionately from region to region, city to city, corner to corner. […]
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Today Apple revealed its updated iPad and, as has long been rumored , it is thinner and lighter and takes a lot of design cues from the existing iPad Mini. Apple says it’s such a big change that it’s no longer just worthy of the name iPad, and they’ve […]
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There’s a secret language spoken in the often self-serious world of wine tasting: Words like awkward, clone, note, legs, bouquet, and thief suddenly don’t mean what they normally mean. For amateur imbibers, sommelier jargon and that weird front-of-teeth slurping and spitting thing can seem like a joke we’re not […]
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Not content to be left behind to eat Google Glass ‘s digital dust, Microsoft is reportedly testing prototypes of its own Internet-connected eyewear. But will customers be interested in wearing them? Microsoft is far from the only tech company exploring the burgeoning market for wearable devices, which includes products […]
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As we’d expected , although some commentators and analysts ( what do they know ?) questioned it, Apple just revealed its new iPad Mini with a retina screen. It’s totally upgraded compared to last year, and just might be more important than the new iPad Air . The new […]
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There’s nothing sexy about big data. Then again, for anyone who has ever spent time in a lingerie dressing room, there’s nothing sexy about bra shopping. That very experience of letting a stranger feel you up before spending hours half-naked trying on cup sizes that don’t generally translate to […]
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When Apple introduced the first iPad with Retina Display in March of last year, it didn’t come without a cost. The third-gen iPad was the first Apple product to actually get fatter than its predecessor. Compared to the iPad 2, at 1.44 pounds, the iPad with Retina Display was […]
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Apple products are usually seen as expensive if not out of reach for average consumers; rarely are they associated with being free. But today the company took a big step toward changing that perception at a splashy event in Cupertino. “For the last several years, we’ve been on a […]
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