Willow Garage, a research firm established back in 2006 by Scott Hassan, is shutting down. This is very significant for the robotics industry because the firm was among the pioneers in robotic research and software.
When a service typically goes down for a period, users start looking for alternatives. Same was the case with the recent WhatsApp outage which turned millions of users to alternatives such as Telegram.
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS), is the “world’s largest solar thermal plant.” The good news is now this solar thermal plant is fully operational and is expected to generate enough electricity to power 140,000 houses, each year.
Samsung has unveiled 2 new smartwatches – the Gear 2 and the Gear Neo. But neither phones run on Android OS, rather they run on Tizen OS. In other words, the new watches are no longer from Galaxy branding.
Instant Messaging (IM) allows effective and efficient communication. Many people use some common IM services like AIM, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, Facebook Messenger etc. So, today we will present to you some best PC and Mac IM chat client alternatives.
Ever since Apple debuted Siri, others in the mobile arena have been trying to create their own smart personal assistants. We’ve been hearing about Microsoft’s Cortana for a while now and recent reports suggest that it will be shipped with the Windows Phone 8.1 update.
Angry Birds Rio has updated with water and dolphins in new High Dive episode which is based on upcoming movie sequel Rio 2.
CAPTCHA has successfully warded off spam on all sorts of online sites and forums for quite some time. The verification method has been relevant for a surprisingly long time but a new algorithm may finally render it useless.