As reported by TechCrunch. KIO STARK The following is an excerpt from my new book Don’t Go Back to School: a handbook for learning anything. To someone who has never tried, it’s not obvious how to learn the things you want to learn outside of school. I’m on a mission to show you how. To do that, I became obsessed with how other people learn best, and how they do it without going to school. My…
As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Until now, you’ve had to track your free storage on Google products separately. It was just another thing that Google hadn’t brought together to make it easier on users. Today, the company announced that you’ll now have 15GB of free storage to share between Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos. Google Apps customers are getting a bump for Drive and Gmail to the tune of 30GB. This falls in line with what Google…
As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Though some may look down on Star Trek‘s fictional Klingon language and invoke the infamous phrase uttered by William Shatner — “Get a life!” — Microsoft’s Bing translation team doesn’t see it that way at all. As part of a marketing join-up with Paramount Pictures, the service will be offering translation of the fictional tongue to and from its other 41 languages to support the release of Star Trek Into Darkness. According to the LA Times,…
As reported on Wired. BY KATIE M. PALMER Artemis Racing crew members gather at a Treasure Island dock the day after the deadly crash of their 72-foot-long catamaran on Friday, May 10, 2013, in San Francisco. Sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson was trapped underwater when the high-tech catamaran capsized during America’s Cup training. Photo: Noah Berger / AP Sailors of catamarans — those light, fleet, double-hulled sailboats — accept capsizing as a part of the game…
As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Google Maps is usually for helping you navigate, but a new game based on Street View is about being almost hopelessly lost. GeoGuessr drops you at a random Street View location across the earth, leaving you to move around the map as much as you’d like before ultimately taking a guess at where you’re actually standing. Though you’ll occasionally get lucky and start off right in front of a hotel billboard…
As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister Apple’s Find My Friends, a mostly-unrelated concept. Perhaps you’ve heard of Bang With Friends. It’s a rather controversial thing. Simply put, it’s a Facebook and mobile app that lets you pick which of your friends you’d like to “bang.” Oh, but it’s more clever than that: the app won’t reveal your intentions until that friend picks you back. Then, theoretically, you can clandestinely meet for a night of sex…
As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS Gun control is control of all guns. This tautology, in a developed society, is non-negotiable. If guns can exist in our country, then gun plans can exist, and, although I’m firmly on the side of draconian control over most weapons, I find the move to ban Defense Distributed’s plans for their Liberator pistolunconscionable. Guns exist, so these plans, too, should exist. To be clear, I think Cody Wilson’s ideas are libertarian…
As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Samsung Electronics has developed core technology that will allow it to deliver high-speed 5G wireless data connections to consumers by 2020, the company announced today. The system allows data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks. 5G mobile communications technology is the next generation of 4G LTE networks tech and can offer data transmission speeds of up to several tens of Gbps per base station. Once 5G…
As reported on TechCrunch. by MG SIEGLER Just about two years ago, I went off the deep end. I had come home early from an event in an effort to do something responsible: email. I was on the road and knew the situation would be dire (since I had not been checking my email all day). I was wrong. It was a disaster. It may as well have been Inbox Trillion. There was no way I could get through…
As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS We’re just a few days away from the start ofGoogle I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference, and while we actually know very little about what Google plans to announce during its massive, three-hour keynote on Wednesday, there is something brewing in Mountain View that has Microsoft’s Office division on edge. Over the course of the last week, Microsoft started a very negative anti-Google Docs campaign that fits the mold of its…