Archive for the ‘Daily Digest’ Category

Google’s got an event lined up for October 11th and they’re going to unveil something — and there’s a darn good chance that something will be Ice Cream Sandwich. The next version of Android is supposed to launch in the next month or two and unify the OS across the varying screen sizes you now […]

Listen up, space nerds; there’s a Twitter contest taking place that might actually tickle your fancy. @NASA is holding one of its infamous tweetups. A tweetup isn’t just some event where you meet other space enthusiasts at a local bar and talk about the latest developments at NASA. No, these NASA tweetups actually take place […]

Now that Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has been fully revealed, it’s abundantly clear that it’s a content consumption device first and foremost. There’s no camera or GPS as you’d expect to find on a full-featured tablet, but there are strong ties to Amazon’s many media offerings — including Kindle eBooks, the MP3 store, and Amazon […]

It’s safe to assume that Google makes plenty of money off Android (in one way or another), but Microsoft has done its share of profiting from Android smartphones and tablets as well. How? By striking patent licensing deals with device manufacturers like HTC, Acer, Velocity Micro, and Viewsonic. The HTC deal alone netted Microsoft more […]

Google is turning 13 years old today. As the company says goodbye to its childhood and enters its formative teen years, it’s hard to remember what life was like without Google. As with other major events, like deaths, birthdays, and important dates in history, Google has posted a celebratory Google Doodle showing the Google logo […]

Apple has finally made the news official. The next iPhone is going to be introduced on October 4th during one of its typical media events with the location being Apple headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop. The confirmation comes in the form of the official invite being sent out to selected people Apple likes and wants […]

The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE when they were hidden in […]

Swedish camera company Hasselblad started providing NASA with cameras back in 1962. These were the cameras that NASA used on their manned space flights, which was quite an honor for the company and created an incredible legacy not just of space-proof hardware, but of documentation. Hasselblad had to explain to the astronauts and NASA’s scientist […]

There was probably a time when the number of Facebook friends you had was reasonably small, like 40 or 50. Over the social networking site’s six-year-long life span most of us have added a great deal more friends and few people know their exact number of Facebookers we’ve connected with. In the days when we […]