With terrible sales and no sign of turnaround, Palm's options are whittling down to one: buyout. Ex-Appler Phil Kearney sees a buyer in Google, which, in its looming megawar with Apple, might need Palm as much as Palm needs it. More »
There's little action, no sound, and the footage is grainy. But this brief clip may be the only existing video of writer Mark Twain and his daughters Clara and Jean. It was captured in 1909 by inventor Thomas Edison. More »
Now that Street View has covered 95 per cent of British roads, expect to see a lot more random snapshots of those eccentric Brits—like these, which show a comic book meet-up on a very remote island off Scotland. More »
It's a real stretch to say it's worth paying someone $150 to program your fancy remote control for you; in fact, you'd say whoever is pitching it is trying to upsell you. And they'd agree. [Dell via Consumerist] More »
It looks like a special effect, but it's not. What you're watching is an F-35B supersonic stealth jet spend 30 seconds suspended 150ft in the air, for the very first time. More »
Palm's results for last quarter are out, and they're grim. Not as grim as Palm had warned, but still: yikes. What does this mean to you, loyal Palmsters? It means your beloved company—and its phones—might get gobbled up. More »
Twitter's good for a lot of non-passive-aggressive activities, like controlling Lego Mindstorm robots. This time it's not a HTC Hero pulling the shots though—it's one of those ultra-hackable Nokia N900 phones. More »
The inevitable destination of the eye-searing display in the 27-inch iMac has always been a standalone monitor, a bigger brother to the quite lonely 24-inch LED Cinema Display. It's codenamed K59, and supposedly coming in June. [AppleInsider] More »
Google's upcoming set top box has great pedigree: It's Android-based OS, Sony and Intel are building the guts and design and Logitech doing what Logitech does best (input devices). So please, please, please don't screw this up. More »
"Lots of times the families will go down to Kinko's," the funeral director tells me. "They can do a memorial folder thing down there." Do you help them get photos off Flickr, off Facebook? "We don't really help with that." More »
This is curious, at least amidst a massive publishing war with Amazon. According to the WSJ, Apple's putting its massive newspaper-and-magazine-revival-on-the-iPad effort on the "backburner in favor of focusing on other content," like its long-festering plan to bundle TV shows as a pseudo-subscription service through iTunes, as well as selling certain TV shows for a buck an episode. The idea being to get the deals in place by April 3, in time for the iPad launch. But! Everybody's still being wishy-washy on signing to Apple's terms, just like they have been for the last several months. So, maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. I wouldn't bet on the best stuff being available on launch day, myself. [WSJ] More »
Is it dead? Is it not dead? There was quite a bit of confusion about the fate of Dell's Adamo XPS and now there's an official explanation of the whole mess: More »
AT&T managed to keep its network from crashing and burning at SxSW this year by wheeling in three COWs, or cell towers on wheels. Rocketboom went inside one to check it out. [Rocketboom] More »
The mad geniuses at DARPA have their next project lined up: a camera that can guide itself and report back from the field. That kind of visual intelligence has been an exclusively human trait, until now. More »
There are many moments in Life, the followup to Planet Earth, that just have to be fake. They look so perfect, so surreal and so crazy that there's no way that they aren't made with computers. But they're all real. More »
Just as hard drive sectors can fail, neurons, too, can fail as data processing, memory-storing units in your brain. In this video, a neuron lacks the protein needed to make connections with other cells, essentially becoming a bad sector. More »
Between alcohol-fueled holidays and everyday health issues, some of us might eventually wind up needing new livers or some other organs. Turns out scientists could build us those new organs using metal nano-particles suspended in a magnetic field. More »
One day, you're going to die. And when you do, your online presence—like your social network profiles, your blog comments, and your web services—will serve as your very first memorial. Here's how it'll play out. More »
We're used to feeling oddly insulted by Sony ads, but for once it's everyone else who might need a hug. Because in this PlayStation Move ad, the competition gets named, shamed, and leaves crying for mommy. [Ars Technica via Kotaku] More »
