Author: Terren

Shriveled fingers and toes are something we’re all familiar with, yet scientists have struggled to explain why it happens. A longstanding theory is that wrinkles are the result of water passing throug…

It’s super-hot in Australia right now: there are massive bush fires happening spontaneously and it’s 95°F in Sydney at midnight. In fact, the Australian bureau of meteorology has recorded the highest ever known temperature in Australia—and as a result, it’s had to add new colors to its weather maps. More »

Microsoft has sent out an email to the remaining Windows Live Messenger users, informing them that the service will shut down on March 15th, except in China, to be replaced by Skype. Read more…

Shopping online is meant to be easy. Find out where your customers are “checking out” with Google An

For gadget lovers, it’s an exciting time of year. But for Canadian gadget lovers, it can also be a frustrating time of year, because many of the products and services announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas won’t be available in Canada for weeks or months, if ever. Dan Misener explains why.

The scene: your girlfriend and/or boyfriend (hey, nothing wrong with polyamory) got you tickets to The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. You’ve been waiting your whole life to see those goats up close…

We’ve known about the Asus Transformer AIO since back at Computex, but the mutant hybrid wasn’t in working order until now. The verdict? …Kind of cool, actually.

A new projection from Sociable suggests that the Google Play Store will possibly reach one million apps by June 2013. The social media site used milestones from the marketplace’s history and applied some math to figure out when exactly the tipping point would occur.
The number of apps has seen a sizeable increase since mid-2012, when Google put the count at 700,000 back in October. Sociable’s numbers estimate that there are 800,000 at current tim…

A rant about the recent attack on “violent video games”. Blame the parent, not the product. illwillp

As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world…

A video shown on-stage during NVIDIA’s press conference just unveiled “Project Shield,” a gaming controller / portable console running the just announced Tegra 4. The controller looks an awful lot like a PlayStation 3 DualShock 3, albeit with an HD screen attached. NVIDIA’s promising 38 hours of gaming out of the rechargeable lithium ion batteries built-in, a swanky audio system “on par with” jamboxes, and a full-on Android gaming experience. A m…

After spending years trying to organize a Saved by the Bell reunon, Jimmy Fallon pulled off a partial Huxtable famly reunion. Bill Cosby and Tempestt Bledsoe, who played the legendary comedian’s daug…

It’s no secret that more and more users of mobile devices prefer Android over everything else, but it also appears that more of us use Facebook on our devices compared to well… everyone else. I know you’re all slightly perplexed at where I am going, so let me explain— the Facebook app is no doubt a mainstay on mobile devices everywhere… regardless of what mobile OS the app is on. However— it appears there are more Facebook for Android users than …

Lenovo’s done pretty well since its acquisition of IBM’s personal computer business in 2005, but in an internal e-mail earlier today, CEO Yang Yuanqing

Just before Page and Co. officially took the wraps off of Android in 2007, Googler Dan Morrill was getting ready to introduce the OS to a larger swath of developers in Mountain View. In an effort to spice up his presentation to devs, Morrill drew up a gang of bots while taking a brief respite, creating what he believes were the first proposed mascots for Android. The rowdy bunch may be a far cry from the avocado-hued droid we’ve come to know and …

Google Play’s magazine subscriptions have always, sadly, existed separate from a publications print offerings. Meaning, even if you already had the paper

Caltech astronomer John Johnson, co-author of a newly published study on the formation of planetary systems, calls the distribution of planets in our galaxy “mind-boggling.” His team’s are the latest …

Before the Battlestar Galactica reboot and Firefly, there was Titan A.E.. This post-apocalyptic animated feature about humanity’s last hope was bookended by gorgeous space shots and a misfit crew of a…

Over the past few years I’ve invested a lot into Apple’s products and services. If you come by my house, you’d find four of the latest Apple TVs, two iMacs, the latest MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, more…