Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
In a big win for the environment, New York just became the first state in the country to ban hydraulic fr...
Though many folks are meh on Microsoft's Kinect 2 for gaming, in the hands of a 3D animator it can do wondrous things. Case in point is the Momentum art project from a group called Schnellebuntebilder. Using custom software, they captured a live...
Good things happen when you cram a fast image processor into a small camera body, as Nikon has shown with its new mid-range 1 model, the J4. With the latest Expeed 4A imaging engine, the CX-sensor camera can now pump out 20 images per second in burst...
See those images above? Those could become a familiar sight in the future if you religiously use Google's Calendar app for Android. This crisper, cleaner Google Calendar was recently spotted by Geek.com (which also spilled the deets on a test version...
In the dark, finding the volume rocker on your TV's clicker can be hard enough, but F7 on a QWERTY keyboard? That's damn near impossible. To that end, Logitech thinks it has a solution for managing your home-theater PC or connected-TV once you've...
Klout has been updated to version 2.0, adding a number of features to help users stay in control of their online presence. These include a personalized content stream, content scheduling, a topic explorer, and more.
The content stream is based on your interests. When you see something you like, you can drag it up to the share window above the feed and share with Twitter, Facebook, or both. Edit your list of interests by pulling the feed to the right and releasing or tapping the menu button in the top left corner and selecting Topics. From the menu that appears, you can also select Create, Schedule, and Perks. Create will take you back to the content feed, where you can share things you see and make your own posts. Schedule will allow you to set a certain time for your post to be shared. Perks shows you what Klout Perks you've earned.
You can download Klout 2.0 from the App Store now.
Every day dozens and dozens of new and updated apps and games hit the iOS and Mac App Stores. It's impossible to keep up with them all, but it's not impossible to pick out the very best. Today we've got updates to an air travel app, a lane-strategy game, a music creation app, and more.
If you try any of the apps or updates, let me know how they work for you. If you got any new or updated apps today that you loved, but don't see here, let us know about them!
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Until now, humans have had one significant advantage over computers and robots: We meatbags were the only ones who could teach them how to function. Now, researchers at Washington State University have created computers that can teach other computers. And they're using Pac-Man to do it. Is nothing sacred?
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Given his long, illustrious career as the world's premier totalitarian Photoshop expert
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Today is the 45th anniversary of Earthrise. We take it for granted now but, along with Blue Marble, it's the most important and famous photo ever taken. In a world saturated with fakery and cynicism, it's easy to ignore the magnitude of its impact. But in 1968, this photo changed everything.
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