• Bits Blog Vintage Apple-1 Sells for Record $671400

  Sotheby's sold an Apple-1 for $374,500 last year. A few months later in Germany, one sold for $640,000. An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976, sold for a record $671,400 on Saturday at an auction in Germany. That surpassed the $640,000 record for an Apple-1, set last November at a sale at the same auction house in Cologne, Germany. The fall 2012 sale was a sharp rise from the previous record ...

• Consciousness Why we need to build sentient machines

  Consciousness: The what, why and how " FROM C-3PO of Star Wars to Wall-E, the sentient garbage collector, the prevalence of conscious machines in the stories we tell seems to reflect humanity's deep desire to turn creator and design an artificial intelligence. It might seem as if we stand little chance of making an artificial consciousness when the natural variety remains such an ...

• Meet the new champ of desktop speakers Adam Audio F5

  ARTist 3 , took me by surprise last year. That little speaker is still in the line, but when I learned Adam just introduced a less expensive, but slightly larger desktop ...

• Girls suicide after alleged attack troubles town

  Audrie 's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ploy. By all accounts, Audrie was a gorgeous girl. Her lush brown hair framed a heart-shaped face. Light makeup outlined her sharp brown eyes, but round cheeks gave her a childlike charm. She was a soccer player, a painter, a girl who at age 4 had the gumption to stand in front of 1,000 people in church and belt out a ...

• LA stoplights synchronized but road war endures

  Yet, with the flip of a switch earlier this year, Los Angeles became a worldwide leader by synchronizing all of its nearly 4,400 stoplights, making it the world's first major city to do ...

• Star Trek II producer talks Ceti Eel J.J. Abrams and more

  Robert Sallin, producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," shares his experience working on the film, looks at the future of "Trek," and dishes on whether that was Ricardo Montalban's real ...

• WhatsApp to get desi rival

  Android platform -- Plustxt, an English-language messaging app similar to the globally popular Whatsapp, and Plustxt India, which allows users to communicate in eight regional languages. Within months, the apps have recorded 60,000 downloads encouraging Prasanna and his team to work on versions for other platforms like ...

• Beware the coming of the Google Glass photographer

  Grovo offer a glimpse into a horrifying future. An obnoxious, photo-obsessed Glass owner gets all up in everyone's grill to record everything with many, many blinks of the eye. I'd love to say this is all just hyperbole for the sake of getting a laugh, but then I think of the guy shouting at a person on speakerphone in the library, or the number of phone conversations had by people ...

• India second biggest source of spam Trend Micro

  spam was being sent from India and the country stood second among the spam sending countries. The report added that 1.75% of computers in India were found accessing Botnet connected servers, ...

• Mailbox app makes its way to iPad

  Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood said that people have to use email whether they like it or not. So they target those people who feel crushed by it, and build an experience that is more delightful. ...

• Yahoo submits proposal to acquire Hulu Sources

  Time Warner Cable's bid was fashioned as an equity investment, another person said, as the cable operator hopes to set up a joint venture with other cable companies to operate ...

• Russia blacklists social network Vkontakte by mistake

  MOSCOW: Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking website, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake on Friday, an official said. "This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, spokesman for Russia's telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor. "We will ...

• How cellphone addiction can harm your body

  infertility specialist Dr Nandita Palshetkar says that the high-frequency electromagnetic radiation that cell phones emit may be associated with increased risk of brain tumours. "However, other tissues in the body such as the testes may also be sensitive to these cell phone radio frequency electromagnetic fields. Cellphone fields, because of their frequency and intensity, are prone to ...

• Lumia 920 gets price cut 925 now on India site

  NEW DELHI: Nokia has slashed the price of its Lumia 920 flagship smartphone in India, barely a week after it introduced the Lumia 925 globally. Lumia 920 was launched in the country in January this year at Rs 38,199, but can now be purchased at Rs 32,639 from the Finnish manufacturer's partner website. The company is also offering a free wireless charger, priced at Rs 3,000, with the ...

• UPA ministers get a handle on Twitter

  NEW DELHI: UPA at 9 may not have done very much but it has certainly tweeted a lot. In the last 200 days (since the last reshuffle) the government may have been challenged to find convincing explanations for the surge of new controversies but that has not stopped it from stepping up its act on social media. First movers ...

• Plustxt aims to be local-language WhatsApp rival

  Consumer demand for low-cost applications that can replace short text messaging on mobile phones helped spur the launch of a Bangalore-based start-up ...

• An app to warn you about toxins viruses

  viruses and other molecules. The app and cradle system for smartphones has sensitive biosensing capabilities that could enable on-the-spot tracking of groundwater contamination and combine the phone's GPS data with biosensing data to map ...

• Senders of pesky calls SMSes will face disconnection Trai

  Trai has decided that telecom facilities given to subscriber would be immediately disconnected if it is found being used for sending unsolicited ...

• WordPress gets $50m funding from Tiger Global

  Tiger Global . The investment comes on the heels of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging company Tumblr, showing the high prices fast-growing services that targeting internet users can command. The valuation ...

• Airtel takes back top spot in rural areas from Voda

  MUMBAI: India added net 3.5 million GSM subscribers in April largely driven by increase in rural areas, according to two statements released by the Cellular Operators Association of India. The association said rural India added 3.8 million subscribers, of which 1.66 million joined Bharti Airtel, making the Indian bellwether the largest rural player again. However, on an all-India basis, Bharti ...

• Facebook doesnt excite teens anymore

  teenagers is moving away from social networking platform Facebook, and they prefer "parent-free" platforms, according to a survey. The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, indicates how teenagers' enthusiasm ...

• Celebrate Geek Pride Day May 25

  Modis has conducted a survey in geek pride, finding that it’s no longer necessary for Americans today to ';sneak their geek.'; Modis reports that 68 percent of all respondents said they would date a geek, possibly because 67 percent of Americans associate geeks with being loyal. Ninety percent of all respondents said that if they were trying to impress someone, they would take ...

• Infosys Gujarat needs to retain talent for IT sectors growth

  Gujarat needs to retain its talent for the growth of Information Technology sector in the state, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) president ...

• Indian to head SAPs RD division

  Bill McDermott said. Ariba CEO Bob Calderoni will now take on more responsibility for SAP's overall cloud business, though he has not been appointed to the executive board. SAP just launched a cloud-based version of its HANA tool, which helps companies analyse large quantities of data quickly and competes with Oracle's new Exalytics ...

• 3G case Centre seeks contempt case against Idea

  and deliberate" disobedience of a judicial order by allegedly providing 3G facilities to new customers in circles where it lacked the requisite ...

• Infosys gives about 10 increment

  has surprised its employees, and many industry analysts, by giving a 10% salary increase, ending speculation about whether the company would give increments given its sluggish financial ...

• Haswell chip primer How Intel pinches power

  (Credit: Intel) How serious is Intel about battery life on its next processor? Very. On Thursday, the world's largest chipmaker hauled out two chip experts to brief journalists on how Intel's fourth-generation core processor, aka Haswell, reduces power consumption and boosts battery life. Intel is claiming a 50 percent improvement in battery life for devices using Haswell ...

• Crave Ep. 122 When the moon hits your 3D-printed pizza pie

  This week on Crave, NASA wants to 3D-print a pizza, and one man plays the guitar during his own brain surgery while another captures a terrifying BASE drive with his helmet ...

• HTC One Google edition Its real and coming in summer

  (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) The HTC One will indeed get the Nexus treatment. HTC will sell a Google Edition version of its flagship One smartphone with the ...

• Bidder buys $1.5 million space date with Leonardo DiCaprio

  How much would you pay to get locked in a spaceship with DiCaprio? At an auction to benefit AIDS research, a man buys three days of training and a trip to suborbital space with the "Gatsby" ...

• Report Yahoo pay-TV operators among Hulu bidders

  LOS ANGELES - A person with direct knowledge of Hulu says the video site is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders.The person wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke Friday on condition of anonymity, after several news outlets reported on the bidding.The person didn't offer details on the prices offered. Published ...

• COAI urges govt to cancel 19 permits of Tata Teleservices

  NEW DELHI: The industry body representing mobile phone companies on the GSM technology platform Friday asked the Centre to cancel 19 mobile permits issued ...

• Google to bankroll build wireless networks across Africa WSJ

  Fri May 24, 2013 5:51pm EDT (Reuters) - Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of ...

• A look at Netflix since stock plunged from peak

  This undated publicity photo released by Netflix shows David Cross, left, and Portia de Rossi in a scene from "Arrested Development," premiering May 26, 2013 on Netflix. The sitcom, also starring Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, was canceled by Fox in 2006 after three ...

• Horace Dediu has four questions for Apples Tim Cook

  AAPL ) CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to be the opening night speaker at the annual D: All Things Digital conference, an invitation-only event that prides itself in assembling the people that really matter in the world of high ...

• Microsoft refutes reports about Xbox One used game sales

  Xbox One unveiling Tuesday, gamers have wondered how Microsoft will handle the resale of used games for the system. In the absence of a clear answer, speculation and rumors have flooded the Web. Microsoft is now telling gamers that the speculation and rumors aren't true. But it's not saying what the new policy will ...

• CORRECTED-Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattics WordPress.com

  SAN FRANCISCO May 24 (Reuters) - Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on ...

• By The Numbers Netflix subscribers

  In the first three months of the year, Netflix gained 2 million U.S. Internet subscribers, thanks in part to the success of the political drama "House of Cards," which debuted in February. Netflix is expected to get another boost this weekend with the revival of "Arrested Development." Here's a breakdown of Netflix Inc.'s subscribers as of March 31 and details on ...

• Microsoft and Google agree to build YouTube app for Windows Phone 8

  Summary: After a public tussle, Microsoft and Google have agreed to jointly build a native YouTube app for Windows Phone 8, which will be released within a few ...

• Details on how News Corp. split will work

  News Corp. is planning to split into two companies. One company will operate as a newspaper and book publisher and will retain the News Corp. name. The other will be an entertainment company, called 21st Century Fox.Here's how the split will work:- Newspapers, book publishing and information services such as Dow Jones Newswires will be part of the publishing company. The 20th Century Fox ...

• Why Googles Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe

  probe of its display-ad business . This comes as little surprise to anyone who has been watching the search advertising giant's quiet but steady rise in the past few years in the business of placing banner and video ads on websites. But it's also no sure thing that this probe will go any further than the last one. According to ...

• Xbox One uncertainty earnings drag down GameStop

  Xbox 360 games won't work with the Xbox One Neither of those factors are pleasing investors, who had sent shares soaring more than 100 percent over the past 12 months through last Friday. GameStop's shares tumbled 11 percent Friday to $32.10, putting the week's drop at 19 percent. Particularly worrisome is what GameStop's business will look like if it becomes more ...

• Bill to slay patent trolls garners broad backing

  Patent Abuse Reduction Act (PARA) , a bill introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to ward off litigious patent trolls. Though the EFF did cite concerns that the bill doesn't go far enough in protecting consumers, the bill may have enough support from both sides of the aisles to have a shot at becoming law. The proposed legislation is crafted to thwart some of the more common tactics that ...

• Back up your DVDs with free BDlot ISO Master

  iTunes . There wasn't a shiny silver platter in sight. That said, lots of folks have giant DVD libraries, and with good reason. DVDs are cheap. They work great in minivans that have DVD players. And, um, oh, what was that third one again? I can'tsorry. Oops. I kid, I kid. I'm just jokingly making the case for why you might ...

• Google Translate says Hola to Chrome

  (Credit: Google) Not only is Google Translate not dead, its powers of mildly accurate, often-amusing, and on-the-fly translations are in the process of being gifted ...

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