Yelp has plenty of restaurant reviews and OpenTable lets you make reservations at many of those restaurants. Well, now you can make those OpenTable reservations directly from the Yelp website. A perfectly logical union. [NYT] More »
OpenTable - Food - Recreation - Dining Guides - United States
Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary. More »
Google - Searching - Search Engines - Companies - Google Maps
Before it occurred to anyone to just have Obi-Wan use The Force to smuggle C-3PO and R2-D2 past those nosy stormtroopers, the script called for a much more conventional means of subterfuge: a disguise! [Mike Verta—Thanks William!] More »
Video game - Art - Mike Verta - DNA - Programming
Remember the data that Google Street View cars accidentally collected from Wi-Fi networks while roaming streets? After some back-and-forth, the search engine company is handing the data over to the proper "data protection authorities". More »
Google - Google Street View - Searching - Search Engines - Companies
DNA-based logic gates that could carry out calculations inside the body have been constructed for the first time. The work brings the prospect of injectable biocomputers programmed to target diseases as they arise. More »
Logic gate - DNA - Science in Society - Forensic Science - Math
I'm using it exactly like the product photo is showing me! [Newegg] More »
Business - Hardware - United States - Smartcards - Technology
When HP CEO Mark Hurd said that HP didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business, he apparently didn't mean that the company is ditching that market. According to a statement by HP, they're just expanding from that point: More »
Mark Hurd - HewlettPackard - HP - Operating Systems - HP 3000
That HTC Evo 4G looks to be one monster of a phone. It's got essentially everything us serious nerds are always clamoring for, and it's the first WiMax phone to boot. So, do you want one or what? More »
HTC Corporation - WiMax - Video Games - Games - HTC Evo 4G
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What's going on here? First we get iPhone tethering option, but to use them we have to give up unlimited data plans. Now we're told that we can't tether our iPads to our iPhones even if we do that? More »
IPad - IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Tethering
Created by amateur special effects artist The Faking Hoaxer, this video shows the Space Shuttle in 12 different horrifying situations, be it breached or exploding at launch. It's real enough to be stomach-churning. [YouTube] More »
Space Shuttle - Space - Technology - NASA - Missions
A video game programmer in Chicago decided he wanted to work on a fun project. So he made a custom R/C car with a wireless video camera on board, all controlled by an Xbox controller. Awesome. [CreeperBot, Thanks, Dan Howery] More »
Xbox 360 - Microsoft - Video game - Games - Console Platforms
After AT&T pulled a data plan switcheroo on their customers, a concerned Sprint customer wondered if the same thing would happen to him. So he emailed Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and asked. More »
Sprint Nextel - Business - AT&T - Verizon - Telecommunications
Today at the All Things D conference we saw a snapshot of what's wrong with Microsoft under Steve Ballmer's tenure. More »
Microsoft - Steve Ballmer - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - Steve Jobs
Our tech team is aware that our comments system has gone a bit nuts today. They're working on fixing things, so please don't panic if you see comments appear, disappear, and reappear in the wrong places. Things will be back to normal soon. More »
Comedy - Arts and Entertainment - Arts - South China Morning Post - Falun Gong
I'm sure USC's Speech Articulation group gained all manner of important phonological insight from these videos of an opera singer and a beatboxer doing their respective things in an MRI machine. Here's the insight I gained: tongues are gross. More »
Health - Research - Religion and Spirituality - Christianity - Speaking in Tongues
It's a small victory, but BP reports that it successfully sawed through the ruptured oil pipe in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico today, the first critical step to their new containment dome strategy. More »
BP - Gulf of Mexico - Business - Construction and Maintenance - Materials and Supplies
