Microsoft is making another foray into turning virtual connections into an ad-hoc disaster aid network. HelpBridge, launched today for Windows Phone, iOS, and Android, lets users create lists of emergency contacts and then set up a protocol for communicating with people during a disaster. A pair...
Users are urged not to cry wolf
Apple and Amazon have been fighting over the term 'app store' for nearly two years now, but the judge presiding over the case wants the two companies to try and talk it out before the trial is scheduled to begin in August. According to Bloomberg, A...
In early January, Facebook began testing free calling over Wi-Fi and cellular data for all Messenger for iPhone users in Canada, and said that a US launch could be coming soon. Apparently, the test went well — a new free calling button has appeared in the app. Facebook has confirmed to The Verge that the feature began rolling out to US users today, and requires no update through the App...
We try not to be surprised by what Google's Street View cars record as they make their way around the world's roads, but Google found itself in a bit of trouble this week when users pointed to a series of photos in Botswana that suggested that one of its drivers had mowed down a donkey. The search company has seen it fit to provide definitive proof that it hadn't perpetrated a hit-and-run by releasing the original source images used in the 360-degree street view panoramas. Unlike the processed Street View imagery, the pictures show the car's direction and prove that the donkey stood up and moved out of the car's way after lying in the road — not the opposite. Google Maps' group product manager Kei Kawai says he's "pleased to confirm the donkey is alive and well," and we think it's safe to say that another internet mystery has been...
Google didn't kill this donkey
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The Westboro Baptist Church had plans to stage a protest at the funeral of revered online activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last week at the age of 26, but those plans were apparently derailed by Anonymous' threat to retaliate. As the Atlantic reports, Anonymous countered the church's...
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