Every mobile search you make during the month of October could have a direct impact on youth advocacy and social change. Yahoo and DoSomething.org announced a new month-long mobile search collaboration Thursday, through which Yahoo will donate 10 cents to DoSomething.org's youth-focused initiatives for every search made via do.yahoo.com in your mobile phone's browser — up to $1 … [Read more...]

Photobucket announced the launch of the Photobucket for Samsung co-developed mobile app, available exclusively to Samsung Galaxy device owners. The new Photobucket for Samsung app enables Samsung consumers to simply and easily manage their photos, and order personalized print products right from their Galaxy device. … [Read more...]

On heels of the recent announcement from the White House about the new Smart Cities Initiative, researchers from Florida Atlantic University have received a $296,793 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a three-year, $2.2 million collaborative project with Lehigh University titled, “Probabilistic Resilience Assessment of Interdependent Systems (PRAISys).” … [Read more...]

Think you have the best phone on the market? Are you sure? Today in San Francisco, Huawei and Google introduced the Nexus 6P, an innovative smartphone featuring Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Google’s newest operating system for mobile devices. … [Read more...]

Proteins sometimes run amuck. All the good stuff (the useful genetic and biological material) they contain can get distorted. Mutations in specific amino acids can cause long strands of proteins to curl in on themselves (like a ball of wool a cat has played with) and refuse to break apart. These strands, known as amyloid fibrils, can be extremely toxic and are usually harmful. … [Read more...]

A new study out of St. Mary’s College of Maryland puts us closer to do-it-yourself spray-on solar cell technology—promising third-generation solar cells utilizing a nanocrystal ink deposition that could make traditional expensive silicon-based solar panels a thing of the past. … [Read more...]

Groupon's CEO, Rich Williams announced today via their blog that they will be laying off 1,100 people, which is right around 10% of its staff. Aside from the layoffs, they will also be shutting down operations in seven countries which is unfortunate for the rising tech company. Customer service and international sales will be the departments targeted for the layoffs as … [Read more...]

Upon its latest release last Wednesday of iOS 9, Apple says in statement that this update has had its fastest adoption rate and that more than half of all iPhones are now running on iOS 9.   Newly released iOS 9 has some new and innovative features, like a power saving mode, the capability to make a FaceTime call and at the same time watch video, a more intelligent Siri, new … [Read more...]

Pinterest has finally hit 100 million monthly active users which they have announced through their company blog on Wednesday.  This is not only one of their biggest milestones as they have also been valued at a whopping $11 billion as of March, which puts them right behind Snapchat and in front other industry tech companies like Dropbox and Airbnb as of that time. On the … [Read more...]

As indicated by by The Guardian, one of Apple's senior legal reps. Mike Maletic, had 60 minutes to meet with with conspicuous self-driving auto policymakers at the California DMV, as point by point in a Friday report. Apple is supposed to be adding to a self-driving auto under the codename Project Titan and has procured numerous vehicle industry veterans. Maletic allegedly … [Read more...]