Flappy Bird, the latest iPhone craze, launched less than one year ago. At its peak, it was generating about $50,000 per day. It was run by one man, Dong Nguyen, an indie game developer in Vietnam. Over the weekend, Nguyen suddenly announced that he’d be shutting the game now. It’s no longer available for download…
It may soon be possible to communicate with dead people, or at least their digitally reconstructed avatars, using software developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A new startup from MIT’s entrepreneurship development program claims to enable users to become immortal via their computer. To be launched soon, the web service is…
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a flying car. Terrafugia has been working on its Transition flying car for a few years and now it’s ready for takeoff. In development since 2006, the flying car is the finished product of a team of MIT engineers who have labored for years to gain the necessary…
“Facebook is so annoying.” How many times have you heard that sentiment this past year? We bet a lot, because more and more people seem to be getting tired of the social media platform, especially young people. We’ve noticed a nationwide annoyance with Facebook over 2013. The company even admitted in October that younger teens…
In what is being touted as the world’s first case of ‘robot suicide’, a house bot fed up of its tedious job of cleaning has ended its life by climbing onto a kitchen hotplate and destroying itself in a blaze. The android in an Austrian household had to clean up some spilt cereal when it…
Thanks to Singapore-based startup U2opia Mobile, users of low-cost phones in areas devoid of a mobile data connection will be able to access a stripped-down version of the social network. Twitter, the leading social messaging platform, has tied up with U2opia Mobile, a Singapore-based startup to make its service available to users with basic smartphones…
We’ve all made paper planes as kids, and sometimes even as adults when there’s just nothing better to do. The fun part about making a paper plane is not only trying to make it look cool, but also trying to design it in such a way that it will fly straight and true, as opposed…
The famous media player Winamp will shut down next month, over 15 years after its initial release. Though Winamp eventually lost popularity, in the late ’90s and early 2000s it was one of the go-to media players for listening to local music or radio…
Just a few years ago, most of my online social activity revolved around Facebook. I was an active member of several Facebook groups, including one that helped me and others find apartments and sell used items. Another group was wonderful for organizing midnight movie screenings. And I used Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest…
The line of clothing, which ranges from workout shorts to underwear, has indestructible material around the thighs, waist, and crotch. It is, in essence, a modern day chastity belt. But only the woman wearing it has the key. She can lock and unlock it by positioning the hands of a tiny clock on the front…