GetGlue Gets New Name, tvtag

If you enjoy checking into your favorite television programs and making your tv experience more social than you're probably using GetGlue. GetGlue is the social platform that allows users to check into their favorite tv shows and see what other people are watching it's like having a gigantic tv watch party from the comfort of [...]

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Google Buys Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind For A Reported $400 Million

Google has made another high dollar acquisition. Recode.net reported this weekend that Google has purchased a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. According to Recode's Liz Gannes, Google paid $400 million dollars for the company. While Google has now confirmed the acquisition mums the word on the dollar amount. DeepMind was founded in London by [...]

Korg Introduces Amazing New Gadget iPad App At NAMM

Korg, a world leader in music synthesizers and production equipment took to the NAMM show in Anaheim this week to announce it's latest iPad app. Like their iElectribe apps, the Gadget app is feature rich and full of great sounds. The virtual production studio features 15 virtual synths that cover just about every electronic sound [...]

Apple Reportedly Working On Mobile Wallet

From the, oh  my goodness we knew this with coming files: Apple is reportedly working on a mobile payment solution that will rival Google Wallet. This comes from reports from the Wall Street Journal and Pocketlint.com. Pocketlint reported on Saturday that the new mobile payment service could debut in iOS 8 and will be led [...]

OpenBCI – Brain-Computer Interfaces for Everyone

As the field stands today, the entry barriers for brain-computer interface (BCI) work/research are overwhelming, particularly the cost of the equipment. Now, with the success of the OpenBCI Kickstarter project, these barriers will begin to fall. Although the price is sure to rise a bit, the OpenBCI Kickstater project offered a BCI starter kit as a reward for pledges of $324.

Maryland Police Department’s Social Media Team Kicked Ass

In between press conferences Howard County PIO Sherry Llewellyn kept people informed via social media (image: WBAL-TV) Tragedy struck close to home on Saturday morning at 11:15am. What was believed to be an active shooter was reported in the Mall in Columbia, a mall I had spent most of my youth in. The [...]

If You Think You Can Buy An iPad For $200, Then You Do Deserve This

Con artists in Ceres California are conning would be bargain shoppers with the latest in the Apple products trick. According to Geek.com, unsuspecting victims who are hoping to purchase a genuine iPad for just $200 are actually receiving a ceramic panel. The thieves have decorated the panels with decorative apple stickers and a sticker that [...]

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Clean Your Electronics With Spudz

On Friday we ran a story about using sugar in rechargeable batteries, but no worries here we aren't suggesting that you rub potatoes on your electronics. Alpine Innovations released a new type of cleaner for monitors, laptops, screens and other electronic devices earlier this month at CES. The new Spudz product line includes the patented [...]

Neiman Marcus Data Breach Tops 1 Million

By now we are all too familiar with the 2013 Target holiday data breach security experts have suggested that the data thieves in the case of the nation's second largest discount department store chain, have topped 110 million customers. The data in the Target breach was obtained through malware injected into the company's point of [...]

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VaryCode: Google Translate for Source Code

VaryCode is an all-in-one programming code converter. VaryCode's Makerting Manager told us that the application is "a kind of Google Translate between seven major programming languages: C#, Visual Basic .Net, Java, C++, Ruby, Python and Boo."