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The Cyber Security Challenge completed its third competition this week and names Stephen Miller the winner, which brings a lot of attention his way. The competition is over in a few months, which screams that participants should take a slow and steady approach, because the time period allows for quality work versus the quantity. Stephen…
Back in the day, Apple was the only company to grab a lot of attention for its events. Well, for the past couple of years, Samsung has been able to generate the same amount of attention for its Galaxy line of devices. Although, this time at the launch of Galaxy S4 in NYC, competitors tried…
Whatsapp’s new look Holo-theme version is officially available on the Play Store. Released last month on its official website as a downloadable APK, the update was pushed to the Play Store on 15th March. Revamped UI The update involves a change in fonts, and a revamp of the UI, with a lot less of the…
Samsung’s Unpacked event was a blast, but it did lack a few key points that any major launch event should never miss. First of all, the company did not mention what version of Android OS the Galaxy S4 would be running (it is Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean), and there were no words on the device’s…
Twitter recently introduced Vine, a social video sharing app that took the market by a storm. Well, now it looks like Twitter has set its eyes on the music streaming market for its next venture. Google has also been reportedly working on a music service, so the new Twitter music will have quite few hurdles…
Clay Minerals in Martian Rock Show an Ancient Mars Capable of Hosting Life The Mars Curiosity rover’s mission to find evidence of a once habitable environment on the surface of our neighboring planet has taken one giant leap in the right direction. A recent press release by NASA describes how data obtained from the analysis…
Back in 2004, I was on a visit to a remote village in northern India. It’s a power-deprived area where the most you can get is about 8 hours of electricity a day. Naturally, I was having trouble keeping my devices charged. The neighbouring town, a few miles off, had an uninterrupted power supply. Wi-Fi…
July 1: Google Reader=Gone It’s happening, like it or not, sign a petition or not, angrytweet it or not. Google Reader is being shut down by the Google powers that be. And the spokesperson for said powers is none other than Urs Hölzle, Senior VP of Technical Infrastructure. Sorry folks, its over come July 1….
Galaxy S3 Plus/Advance? Samsung is reportedly working on an advanced variant of the Galaxy S3 to join its latest flagship device, Galaxy S4. According to the latest reports via Eldar Murtazin, the Russian tech blogger, the new and updated variant of the Galaxy S3, could launch with enhanced internals to keep the current flagship phone…
New pictures have emerged of a previously unseen (and rather good looking) Motorola phone that might be the much awaited Motorola X. The leak includes a set of pictures and a video too. Tinh tế has uploaded a set of images as well as hardware information it has on this unknown device, which bears an…
Clearly, popes and Twitter don’t go well together: Several months after joining Twitter, Pope Benedict XVI decided to resign. Is this purely coincidental? Also, take a look at Pope Francis’ fake Twitter account! The online and offline worlds both have been in quite a rumble since the new pope, Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), has been…
YouTube may have not only found, but bred its toughest competition yet. Better yet, the competition is the founder of YouTube; Chad Hurley plans to launch a video sharing site. YouTube has had its share of competitors like Vimeo or more privately owned companies in the likes of Hulu and Netflix. Although as you may…
Mico Headphones Select Music For Your Mood We recently talked about ambient intelligence here at Geek, and I thought I was so freaking clever joking how Pandora always plays guilty pleasure music at inopportune times. Ha! Music selection connected to what’s going on, it’s almost like Pandora is sentient! New Mico headphones from Neurowear will…
The rumored Amazon smartphone that we have been hearing about for so long is taking too much time contrary to Amazon’s prime two-day shipping service. We have the latest reports that suggest the smartphone’s release date has been delayed even further. Keep in mind that the company hasn’t shared any details about the device, so…
Check it out: Astronaut Ron Garan explains how he tweets from space. Also, some breath-taking space shots will be featured in this round-up. Ron Garan, a member of Expedition 27, is popularly known in Twitter as @Astro_Ron. You got that right – aside from carrying out his daily NASA missions, Ron Garan still finds time…