Apple Android apps match.
SIRI = IRIS
Like a lot other coied over stuff from iPhone to Android IRIS is another example.
One of the biggest market driving force for iPhone 4S is siri that can do NLP correctly and respond accordingly.
A team of indian android developers have tried to do do same as. Unfortunately its speed and...
To make physical things work in real work with a phone require a machenical extention. But once in a while engineer comes up with an idea that can blow your mind or a candel.
A genious idea of which turns your phones speaker into the world's worst personal fan, is just one of those apps.
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The Japanese tradition of growing artistically shaped trees created the miniature bonsai. French artist Vivien Muller takes the bonsai concept a step further, creating artistically shaped miniature trees with solar-panel leaves to charge your gadgets. The Electree is a charging station that juices up mobile devices via USB,...
A DNA based Genetics Research recently, confirms Inherited Human Intelligence, providing the first direct biological evidence for a genetic contribution to people's intelligence. The research study was jointly conducted by University of Manchester scientists, working with colleagues in Edinburgh and Australia.
The study...
Sage Wallower, 28, and Brian Hogan, 22, were also ordered to collectively pay the Cupertino-based tech giant $250 in reparations for the smartphone prototype they sold to a writer for Gizmodo, said District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. The DA's push for a five-day jail sentence was denied by San Mateo County Superior Court Judge...
According to analysts at Goldman Sachs Microsoft is making a handsome amount of patient license. Microsoft has already made similar royalty deals with several other Android device makes, most notably among them is HTC. Samsung and HTC account for over half of all the Android phones sold in the U.S. over the past year. The most...
The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km with much higher accuracy than previous studies conducted with accelerator neutrinos. The measurement is based on high-statistics data taken by OPERA in the years...
If you do manage to catch a chunk of satellite its not going to make a fortune. US government forbids you from selling it on eBay. The burned chunk will remain the property of the United States and must be turned over to local police.
The space agency predicts that the debris from the 20-year-old Upper Atmosphere Research...
Android's Ice Cream Sandwich is still at least a month off, but that doesn't mean Google can't help developers to start preparing for the update. Today Google updated its official Android developers blog instructing Honeycomb app developers how to update their apps for the transition to Ice Cream Sandwich. Sadly the blog post...
The followup to Google's current-generation Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS that's affectionately known as Ice Cream Sandwich won't even be arriving until October or November, according to Google. Which, according to thisismynext.com, may or may not be Jelly Bean. The tech blog cites one "trusted source" as saying Jelly Bean is a...
According to NiceKicks.com, which has additional pictures and video of the shoe, the shoes themselves will be sold on Nikemag.ebay.com, with proceeds going directly to the Michael J. Fox foundation, the foundation set up by the actor who played Marty McFly in the original Future trilogy. Word of the Nike Air Mag surfaced earlier...
Leave bare skin when outside can lead to sun damage and increased risk of skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. A 58 will be diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer during their lifetime.
Melanoma is the most common cancer in young adults 25 to 29 years and the second...
Google will hold its annual developer conference, Google IO, Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco, California this week and is expected to discuss the status of the two operating systems, Android and Chrome OS, and the state of its partnerships with companies that create Chrome hardware OS. Android, Google's operating system...
A British woman's breast implant reportedly exploded after she was hit in the chest by a paintball, which can travel at 190 mph. "We respectfully ask that any ladies with surgical breast implants notify our team at the time of booking," according to a statement on its website. Just wait, it gets better: "You will also be issued...
United Airlines is joining the paperless flight deck revolution, announcing Tuesday that it is distributing 11,000 iPads to United and Continental pilots to replace bulky paper navigation charts in the cockpit. The announcement gives further momentum to a movement underway since spring, when the Federal Aviation Administration...
While looting often becomes an issue post-disaster, it's been the exact opposite in Japan.
Since the March earthquake and tsunami that leveled much of Japan, thousands of wallets containing a total of $48 million in cash have washed ashore -- and been turned in, ABC reports. In addition, 5,700 safes containing $30 million...
Recycling has always meant reusing materials like glass or plastic, and reducing atmospheric carbon has traditionally meant cutting emissions, but what if the two could be combined and make combating climate change profitable by recycling carbon out of the atmosphere?
EnergyNOW! correspondent Josh Zepps looked into a new technology...
Every year, about 15 million pounds of alligator fat is dumped into landfills as a byproduct of alligator meat processing. It would certainly be better to reuse this gloopy mess for a greater purpose, no? As it turns out, alligator fat is a prime candidate for animal-derived biodiesel, according to researchers in Louisiana.
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Apple sued by 27,000 South Koreans over Apple has been sued by a group of about 27,000 South Koreans in a class-action lawsuit over alleged privacy violations related to location services on iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch
The suit, filed Wednesday in Changwon, South Korea, seeks about 27 billion won, or about $26 million, in damages, which would work out to about $930 for each plaintiff, the Associated Press reports.
The complaint says Apple's iOS location services infringe on privacy rights because the iPhone stores location data obtained...
If you don’t have time to do the recommended 30 minutes daily exercise, 15 minutes can still be beneficiary, according to a study published Tuesday in The Lancet, a British medical journal.
Conducted by Taiwanese researchers, the study tracked 416, 175 people for 12 years and found that people doing15 minutes of exercise...
In case you needed more proof that watching excessive amounts of TV is bad for your health: new research shows that there is a correlation between the amount of time you spend in front of the TV and how long you live.
A study by researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia has concluded that, for every hour...
The Google/Motorola purchase is going to test everyone in the smartphone and tablet industry. But it’s also going to test whether Android’s success has come from the strength of the platform itself or if Google was just at the right place at the right time.
Looking back, the conditions for Android’s breakthrough were perfect....
Apple already controls the tablet market, but this feature will only make it more difficult for competitors to steal away a slice of the pie
On Thursday, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a new patent application from Apple that shows the company could be planning on adding mini-projection devices to a coming...
Smartphone camera can almost do it all
If you're anything like me, your cellphone and its built-in camera is always on you, while your digital camera gathers dust at home. But as smartphone makers have increasingly realized the potential of the built-in camera, there's been a deluge of phones with cameras that can match...
While Google may control the lion's share of the search market, queries made through Microsoft's Bing search engine lead users to click on a Web page at a significantly higher rate than queries made through Google, according to data released Thursday.
The success rate for Bing searches in the U.S. in July was 80.04%, compared...
Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner has the best airplane windows ever. It ditches that small window with a pull-down plastic shade and replaces it with a larger, dimming window that can be adjusted to let in various amounts of light.
The windows are a dreamy 19 inches tall and 65% larger than the standard airplane windows so you'll...
It appears that the fantasies of many libidinous male soccer fans (and many non fans, presumably) have been answered as the fetching goalkeeper of the U.S. Women's National Team, Hope Solo, hinted on her twitter account on Tuesday that she will pose naked in the famed "Body Issue" of ESPN The Magazine.
"The Body Issue" features...
A major revamp of Apple’s famous Fifth Avenue store in New York City with the 32-foot glass cube entrance has been underway since June. The $6.7 million project will keep the glass cube intact but will simplify its structure by using larger panes of glass. Today Apple provided a rendering showing how the new cube will look...
Do you have a few old, dusty beige-box computers kicking around that you’d like to turn into money? Or perhaps you’d just like to get rid of them, but you lack the means to dispose of them properly? Well, if you’re in the US you’re in luck: Apple will now recycle your old laptop or desktop PC and its monitor for free — and...
The eldest daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver says she fled to London after her parents separated, in part to escape a storm of unwanted attention.
Katherine Schwarzenegger tells Harper's Bazaar magazine she wanted to "go away and realize that it's not as big a deal in other places."
Shriver and the former...
Downgrading your global ambitions could make you a healthier and happier nation.
As the U.S. bond rating falls and the stock market plunges, the American Century looks to be well and truly over. While this has provoked no small amount of hand-wringing, Americans may soon come to enjoy no longer bearing the responsibility...
SWEDISH MAN BUILDS NUCLEAR REACTOR IN HIS KITCHEN
Swedish authorities have detained a man who attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen, Helsingborgs Dagblad reported Tuesday.
"I was arrested and sent to jail when the police and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority searched my apartment," the unnamed nuclear...
Walmart is planning to launch several new projects this holiday season based on the technology it acquired from the social media startup Kosmix back in April. Kosmix's platform previously powered multiple services, including a Twitter search site called TweetBeat, a health vertical called RightHealth and a homepage where users...
A 10-year-old girl, reportedly bored with farm-style video games such as the wildly popular game Farmville, has uncovered a security flaw in mobile video games, CNET reported.
"It was hard to make progress in the game, because it took so long for things to grow. So I thought, 'Why don't I just change the time?'" the girl,...
Due to the extreme popularity of social media use, researchers have increased their attention on the development of psychological disorders resulting in teens who obsess over Facebook. They’ve found antisocial behavior, narcissism and a many other character flaws may be on the rise due to teens overdosing on the world's most...
A village with 58 households who had never seen a light bulb in their house filled with light. Children no longer studying by candlelight or burning wood.
Installation of the micro hydro plants has multiple impacts on the lives of rural population. In rural areaswhere people typically depend on forest wood for fuel, micro hydro power can diminish the environmental degradation caused by cutting trees as well as reduce health risks such as respiratory and eyes infections....
Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disruptions over the next few days.
"The magnetic storm that is soon to develop probably will be in the moderate to strong level,"...
Sexual function improved significantly and quickly in obese men with type 2 diabetes after weight loss with reduced-calorie diets, results of a small Australian clinical study showed.
Erectile function, sexual desire, and urinary symptoms all improved significantly in 31 men who lost 5% to 10% of their body weight in eight...
Facebook Inc. said its inspection of computers turned over by Paul Ceglia, the western New York man who claims he’s entitled to half of Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s holdings in the social-networking company, shows “smoking gun” evidence of fraud.
Ceglia sued Facebook and Zuckerberg last year, claiming that a two-page...
University of Phoenix the Institute for the Future has produced a new report titled Future Work Skills 2020. It identifies the key driving factors changing the workplace, but the actual skills section leaves something to be desired. This report is probably best for college students or mid-career workers thinking about making...
