Technology & Science

 

mediumfeature

Appathon

Appathon aims to foster new developers

In the hyper-competitive world of mobile video games, Ray Sharma knows it's all about standing "on the shoulders of giants."


Comments ()
 
 
 
 

Artificial Intelligence

 
 
A Harvard professor whose machine learning research helped create an IBM computer that defeated two human champions in a "Jeopardy!" game has won the prestigious A.M. Turing Award.
 
 
 
Canadians are spending much more time online than people from other countries, with an increasing number of older users propelling that growth, according to a new study of Internet habits.
 
 

News

 
 
Top NASA scientists said Monday there was no scientific evidence to support a colleague's claim that fossils of alien microbes born in outer space had been found in meteorites on Earth.
 
 

From the Blogs

 

Telus Optic TV: The future is Facebook

Social networking meets television in a new application released today by Telus. The company introduced a Facebook app to its Optik TV that allows viewers...

 

EchoEcho: Vancouver company fine tunes location-based service

When Cea Person is looking for her husband Remy Kozak, she doesn't have to call or text him. A click on an app on her iPhone and Kozak's face ...

 

iPad 2 in US stores 5 pm local time March 11

The iPad 2 goes on sale in the United States tomorrow starting at 1a.m. in the US online store and from 5 o'clock in the afternoon local time at Apple...

 

Best of YouTube

 

YouTube

Best of YouTube

Best of YouTube: Week of March 7, 2011

Here's a look at the latest videos making the rounds on YouTube this week.

 
 

To view this site, you need to have Flash Player 8.0 or later installed. Click here to get the latest Flash player.

 

Personal Tech

 
 

3D TV

CES

Samsung and LG in rare public battle about 3D TV

South Korea’s electronics giants are engaged in rare public mudslinging about whose 3D television technology is better, as they battle for a greater share of a potentially huge global market.


Comments ()
 

Gizmos & Gadgets

PNG0304 ECHO 5.jpg

Vancouver startup fine-tunes geolocation with new app

When Cea Person is looking for her husband Remy Kozak, she doesn’t have to call or text him. A click on an app on her iPhone and Kozak’s face appears on the screen, pinpointed to a location on a Google map.


Comments ()
 

Gizmos & Gadgets

Charlie Sheen censored

Want less Charlie Sheen? There’s an app for that

A global art collective on Tuesday released an antidote for online Charlie Sheen overload - software that edits the headline-grabbing celebrity out of Web pages.


Comments ()
 
 
 
 

smallfeature

exploringtheandroid.jpg

Samsung targets Nokia Symbian developers

Samsung Electronics is luring developers working on Nokia’s Symbian platform to change sides as the Finnish company is to abandon this platform.


Comments ()
 
 
 
 

smallfeature

OBAMA.jpg

Obamas take Facebook stand against bullying

U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Wednesday took a public stand against bullying on Facebook, on the eve of a White House summit on an issue they said affected every young American.


Comments ()
 
 
 
 

smallfeature

Primates

Apes, like humans, 'age gracefully': study

Humans and wild primates not only share many physical features, they also experience similar aging patterns, according to a new study by the University of Calgary.


Comments ()
 
 
 
 

smallfeature

Greenland's inland ice sheet in August 2007. The melting of arctic sea ice and the Greenland Ice Sheet is happening so fast that experts are now questioning whether the situation is close to "tipping point," where sudden and possibly irreversible change takes place.

Pace of polar ice melt ‘accelerating rapidly’: study

The pace at which the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting is "accelerating rapidly" and raising the global sea level, according to findings of a study financed by NASA and published Tuesday.


Comments ()
 
 
 
 

smallfeature

Lunar_race1

Canadian robotics team shoots for the moon

Hockey may be headed to space if a team of inventors in Vancouver wins the race to launch a robot to the moon and clinch part of a $30-million prize.


Comments ()
 
 
 

Blogs

 

Bits and Bytes

This blog is a safe haven for people attending Internet Addicts...


 

Dark Matter

Let's skip the heavy lifting in science. Dark Matter takes you...


 

Digital Life

The Vancouver Sun's Gillian Shaw and her take on the latest ...


 

Technocité

Roberto Rocha started this blog to keep geeks in the know of...


 

Button Mash

Ben Gelinas and friends leap headlong into the world of video...


 

Bits and Bytes

This blog is a safe haven for people attending Internet Addicts...


 
 

Gaming

 
 

smallfeature

Internet Safety

Video games produce mixed report card for students’ classroom skills

He’s only 9, so Michael Kelly’s analysis of what video games are doing to kids’ schooling is more instinct than all the new academic talk out there.


Comments ()
 
 

smallfeature

Microsoft's Kinect tops 10 million units in sales

Microsoft said Wednesday that sales of the gesture-sensing Kinect for the Xbox 360 video game console had topped 10 million units, making it the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever.


Comments ()
 
 

smallfeature

Just Dance

Millions take to floor in ‘Just Dance’ videogame

Ubisoft on Tuesday announced that it had sold more than five million copies of the latest version of a "Just Dance" video game tailored for play on Nintendo’s motion-sensing Wii consoles.


Comments ()
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Free Video Games

Download & play

 
 

Online Games