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Last Friday saw a major shot fired at overly-abstract tech patents as Google, Facebook, Zynga, and several other companies filed an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals on the case CLS v Alice. One of the traditional problems plaguing the tech sector has been the ease with which patents can be acquired for fairly basic [...]

A statement from global Internet intelligence agency, Renesys, has reported that Syria’s international Internet connectivity has been completely shut down. Using information taken from a global routing table, Renesys state that at 10:26 UTC on Thursday, 29th November ”all 84 of Syria’s IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet.” An update from [...]

Many parents wish to instil a love of reading in their children, but with so much competition for children’s attention in today’s fast-paced world, it can be more difficult than ever to get them to sit down and focus on a book. A new iPad app called Bookboard may provide a solution to the book [...]

Hurricane Sandy, the Category 1 storm currently threatening $20 billion dollars in economic damage, has been terrorizing the East Coast of the US just in time for Halloween. Sure, the US coast has faced down a number of storms in its past; after all, the Gulf Coast in particular is well known for having a [...]

In a move that could spell the end of untended baggage maverick Spanish innovator Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez has dreamt up a suitcase with a difference – it will follow its owner around! Dogged With a size format of as typical ‘carry on’ case visually, there is little to distinguish the “Hop!” from other bags with [...]

Yes my friends, me and my anti-robot agenda are back with a vengeance. My apologies for being off the grid for quite some time, but I’ve had serious matters to attend to. I’ve actually been engaged in a little empire building, specifically building my robot killing hamster army into a formidable force; running recruitment drives, [...]

Japan gave the world the haiku, and later the modern video game. The modern video game then gave us gamification, and enriched all of our lives. Now my gift for you, Japan: Gamification. Game form recasts, enlivens the mundane, the dull. All leaps forward in human civilisation draw their detractors. But in recent times gamification [...]

The US fall television season is upon us and with it comes a flurry of extravagant, elaborate and epic ad campaigns, vying for our undivided attentions and addictions until the sun pokes its elusive head over the horizon of spring 2013. Of course, any TV network worth its salt knows that the internet is the [...]

The tech industry knows Twitter is important for reaching a huge potential audience. The problem is, it’s often difficult to quantify what exactly that influence looks like. Follower count? It’s become hilariously thrown into the limelight recently that some users (particularly semi-celebrities) have been accused of buying followers. Klout was supposed to fill this gap between [...]

We’re always on the hunt for the most excellent and innovative projects on Kickstarter. This month, five projects that draw our attention… I’ve recently pledged for the I Draw Comics project, so I am obviously a big fan of the platform! Looking through different categories is almost like an on-line shopping. It gives you a great [...]