Daily Tech and Gadget

If you’ve ever gone down to the seashore and tried to pull mussels off rocks (and hey, who hasn’t?), then you’ll know how tenacious their holdfasts can be – although they can be tugged back and forth, it’s almost impossible to actually remove them. Recently, scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces analyzed how the delicious ..Read More

Things seem to be going well for US-based electric motorcycle company Zero Motorcycles which has debuted its 2010 lineup consisting of four new bikes at Daytona Bike Week. The new Zero S, DS, X and MX are equipped with performance enhancements that allow for higher top speeds and greater acceleration than earlier models and feature enhanced power pack technology… ..Read More

Is ‘checking in’ at places using location-based mobile apps like Foursquare and Brightkite resulting in us enjoying life a little less ? Is there such a thing as too much data for a fun activity such as running? We address these and other questions in the final installment of our interview with Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning ..Read More

Twitter made news today for announcing that it now sees an average of 50 million status messages posted each day . A sharp growth curve indicates that activity on Twitter could grow much higher in the short term future. Good old MySpace says it can’t be counted out yet, though. MySpace told me tonight that it still sees 1 ..Read More

For months, we’ve been fielding rumors (and filtering out the facts) about MySpace’s proposed redesign and rebranding. Tonight’s report on TechCrunch outlines a few minor details of the overall plan to stop the site’s hemorrhaging users and stem its financial decline. As we’ve known (and as we predicted last year), the site will shift its emphasis from pure social ..Read More

A Twitter phishing attack is spreading rapidly today, attempting to obtain Twitter logins via Direct Messages. If you receive a message reading “lol, is this you”, and linking to a site called “bzpharma”, do not click the link . Users who do click that link and enter their details are inadvertently letting spammers take over their accounts, which are ..Read More

There’s a fine line between what is considered a knowledge database and an invasion of privacy, and that line is likely to be determined by marketing. This week we wrote an article about Please Rob Me – a service that identifies Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins on Twitter and lets others know that a person is not home. While location-based ..Read More

Many people think that when people set up their online social networking profiles, they may be prone to… exaggerating a bit. Given that they can control what they say about themselves, many have posited that those profiles really represent an idealized version of themselves. Yet, perhaps that’s not true. Jose Luis Campanello points us to a recent study that found ..Read More

This officially wins the Chindōgu award of the week. Seems our friends over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs are at it yet again. Hot on the heels of those delicious Asteroids cookies , they’re back – this time with a robot that makes cocktails. Not just any old drinks, but White Russians to be specific. Created for BarBot 2010 ..Read More

DICE 2010: Founder & CEO Steve Perlman puts ambitious game-streaming network through its paces, explains why game consoles and physical media are doomed by a culture of “instant gratification.” Who is the consumer of today? According to OnLive founder and CEO Steve Perlman, it’s Eric Cartman. To introduce his DICE Summit keynote address titled “Instant Gratification: Video Games In ..Read More