Feedly, the company offering products and services positioned as the best alternatives to Google Reader, today launched Feedly Cloud, a scalable infrastructure that serves as the backbone to Feedly as well as multiple reading applications. Best of all, Feedly Cloud also powers a new standalone Web version of Feedly (no plugins or extensions needed) that also debuts today.Feedly Cloud is ...
Google today announced the first beta release of its Dart SDK and Editor, including performance and productivity improvements across the platform. You can download the latest version of Dart now from dartlang.org.The Editor’s analysis engine, responsible for reporting warnings and errors, has been completely rewritten. According to Google, it is now 20 percent faster at parsing and analyzing. Furthermore, there’s ...
Paula Deen–who has built an empire out of Southern cooking, charm, and butter–is involved in a lawsuit by one of her former employees, and now the 66-year old is facing backlash after portions of her deposition were leaked. Deen is accused by Lisa Jackson–who used to work at Paula’s Oyster House in Georgia–of using the “N” word more than once ...
What’s the one thing standing in the way between ourselves and a future ruled by nanomachines? Well, actually a lot of things are standing in the way, but one of the most prominent is a lack of tiny batteries to power the devices. Harvard researchers announced on Tuesday that they have finally overcome the tiny battery problem thanks to 3D ...
A week ago, we reported that Yahoo was about to give away inactive email addresses. The company said it would be freeing up Yahoo IDs (and email addresses) that have been inactive for at least a year, and resetting them. The idea is that people who actually want Yahoo IDs/email addresses will be able to get more desirable addresses as ...
Three weeks ago, Double Fine started up another massive Kickstarter project, asking fans for $725,000 in pre-funding for Massive Chalice. The game studio has now proven that its success with Broken Age was not a fluke.The Massive Chalice Kickstarter project has now surpassed $1 million, with eight days left to go. The quickly-funded project shows just how much ...
Twitter has acquired check-in app Spindle. Twitter will shut the service down, and utilize the team for its own efforts. Spindle says in a post on its blog: We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: “What’s happening nearby right now?” Every time we’ve experimented and looked beyond local discovery, ...
A fox who found himself in a quandary recently got a little help from two men who happened to be nearby.The kit had his head stuck inside a glass jar and was lucky enough to find some helpers with opposable thumbs to yank it off for him. Usually wild foxes aren’t too friendly with humans, although they have adapted their ...
Apple announced today that HBO Go and WatchESPN are now available for Apple TV. “HBO GO and WatchESPN are some of the most popular iOS apps and are sure to be huge hits on Apple TV,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We continue to offer Apple TV users great new programming options, combined ...
Comedy sequels are rarely ever good. For every Clerks II, there’s 10 more Evan Almightys. That’s why it was a little concerning to see Anchorman was getting a sequel, but our fears may have been overblown. On Tuesday, Paramount released the first official trailer for Anchorman 2. Gut reaction – it’s looking good. It’s hard to say whether or not ...
