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  • 10 days, people! TechCrunch invades Austin in just ten days from now, with our legendary Meetup + Pitch-off series. The magic started in New York this year, with a hugely successful pitch-off, an amazing turn-out and lots of fun memories. So we’re heading out on the open road with the event...
    Source: TechCrunch
  • LOS ANGELES — Sony picked one of the most high-profile parties of the year to debut its new headphones. And with a red carpet studded with vamping models, celebrities and enough paparazzi coverage to scare Kanye, the Sony X headphones got a lot of attention at the...
    Source: Mashable
  • When Michael Newman was a little kid, he liked to draw new video game levels. Quite literally, the obsessive tinkerer is still doing so, but judging by the Video Game Sans Video project he demoed at the 2013 Maker Faire, his pursuits are anything but juvenile. SEE ALSO: Video Game Evolution Now a...
    Source: Mashable
  • sciencehabit writes "Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. By throwing a spear, instead of thrusting it, humans could hunt buffalo and other dangerous game from a safe distance, with less risk of a goring or mauling. But direct...
    Source: Slashdot
  • Will video Hangouts launch when you're on AT&T's 3G network? Can you FaceTime with a friend over LTE? The carrier's current video chat support is confusing at best. Following Google's Hangouts app launch last week, we attempted to try out the Android version over AT&T's HSPA network....
    Source: Engadget
  • The cloud storage wars are heating up and there are a lot of reasons to look at the alternatives. However, the big question is, "Which one is the fastest at syncing files?" Unsurprisingly, that title goes to reigning incumbent, Dropbox.Read more...    
    Source: Life Hacker
  • The Arduino Robot wasn't the only interesting product the Italian company launched at Maker Faire this past weekend. Arduino Yún combines a Leonardo board (featuring Atmel's ATmega32u4) with a MIPS-based WiFi SoC (Atheros AR9331) running Limino (an OpenWRT / linux derivative). It includes...
    Source: Engadget
  • Ever watch one of those juice infomercials that feature some self-created celebrity whirring blueberries in a blender? And did you believe, as they scraped all that fruit into a shoot, that this speaker was actually an authority on their subject? Everyone and everything is a brand, especially...
    Source: Mashable
  • As AT&T comes under the gun for blocking Google’s new video chat app Hangouts on its cellular network, the company is today hoping to put a better spin on the news by offering a new statement detailing its changing position on support for pre-loaded video chat apps. During the second half...
    Source: TechCrunch
  • When Sony announced the PlayStation 4 in February, any images of the console itself were notably absent. Sony released Monday a YouTube teaser for its presence at next month's Electronic Entertainment Expo that includes out-of-focus footage of the console — the first glimpses we've seen of...
    Source: Mashable