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How Googley Is Yandex Anyway?
- Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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The Russian search company has just announced a collaboration with Twitter. Here's how they're becoming more like Google--and also how they also zag with every Google zig.
Yandex and Twitter just announced a collaboration that would give the Russian search company access to Twitter's fire hose of real-time updates, news, and events. In our MIC 2011 feature (Yandex came in at #26), Yandex was growing "Google-style," sprouting add-ons and...
TASER's New Police Glasses-Cam Lets Citizens See What Cops See
- Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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TASER, best known for their electric shock guns, has a new product: Tiny, sunglass-mounted cameras that upload live footage from a cop's POV to the cloud. The idea? They will help prevent police brutality lawsuits and increase accountability.
TASER has unveiled a line of lightweight, cloud-enabled cameras for police officers to wear on the job. The new AXON Flex system attaches magnetically to Oakley sunglasses and uploads a nonstop stream of...
Apple Rumor Patrol: Fatter, Faster iPad 3, Later iPhone 5, MS Office For iPad
- Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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iPad 3 Fatter
NextMedia has gotten ahold of what they're saying is an iPad 3 rear shell, and photos of this thing are all over the web. It's consistent with previous rumored hardware, but for the first time it gives a true sense of what the iPad 3 will look and feel like. The MICGadgets website has yet more examples of the hardware, and they've also released photos.
What's it like? Pretty much like the iPad 2. It's so very similar that,...
Why Clear's Dead-Simple List Stands Out In The To-Do Market
- Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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It's easy, it lets you swipe away tasks, and you literally can't get too detailed while using it. And Clear might just be the thing you need to make knocking out tasks fun again.
There’s a lot that’s interesting about Clear, an iPhone app that, at its core, makes gradient-colored lists of things. Its design has garnered a lot of kind words. In short, it breaks a whole lot of conventions, and it’s designed from the perspective of swipes, pinches, a...
Barnes Noble Announces $199 Nook Tablet, DataWind Off The Aakash Case, Google Planning Satellite Farm In Iowa
- Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.
Google To Stream Stock Data From LSEG. Google and the London Stock Exchange Group have partnered up. According to the agreement, London Stock trading data will now be streaming in real time, for free, across the Google-verse for the first time. Pre-Google, the data was available only after a 15-minute delay, LSEG said in a press release. --NS
With Connect, Getty Images Leaps Into The 21st Century
- Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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Getty Images is getting with the 21st century today.
With its new Connect system, Getty is making it easier for web publishers and certain platforms like blogging tools to embed Getty's image products in their online publications than it may have been before. This is clever, definitely designed to boost revenues, and probably overdue.
Today's press release explains at length about Connect, pointing out how scalable it is, how comprehensive it is,...
Connected Cars: The Future Of Communication Or A Plague Of Distraction?
- Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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By 2016, over 90% of new vehicles sold in America are expected to come equipped with Internet-connected technology features. As car manufacturers race to build the "iPad on Wheels," are we heading toward safety through hands-free technology, or a new wave of distracted drivers making the roads more dangerous?
Last year, Ford CEO Alan Mulally started using a new slogan for his company.
"Ford, The App of Choice for Car Buyers."
The sentiment has been...
This Week In Bots: Boldly Pounding Fists Where No Droid Has Before
- Fri, 17 Feb 2012
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Oribital gestures, child-like androids, robotic spacecraft--it's all in our robotic roundup. Far out.
Bot Vids: Romeo
Aledbaran Robotics, best known for the pint-sized Nao research bot, have released the first clip of their Romeo project. This machine is way more sophisticated than Nao, is said to be child-sized and is beginning field trials where it assists blind and autistic folk.
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Bot Vids: Jammer
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Fast Talk: How PopVox Gets Congress To Listen
- Fri, 17 Feb 2012
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Meet Marci Harris, who wants to fix your broken line of communication to Congress.
Marci Harris is the CEO of PopVox, a website that lets organizations and individuals weigh in on legislation making its way through Congress. Fast Company caught up with Harris to discuss the novelty of laptops in caucus meetings, the uselessness of tweeting at your Congressperson, and the difficulty of parsing the phrase, “Save the whales.”
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What Wizard101 Gave Up To Break Into China: Exposed Bones, Points, Gold
- Fri, 17 Feb 2012
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The family-friendly online game Wizard101 is bigger than World of Warcraft and poised to grow even quicker as it spreads to China. But creators KingsIsle are making quite a few changes and installing esoteric systems so the Chinese government will let them play there.
It might not have the immediate name recognition of, say, World of Warcraft, but Wizard101, the kid-friendly fantasy world from KingsIsle Entertainment, is bigger than WoW, with 25...
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