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Paul McCartney concert stream will test the waters on live Apple TV viewership

Apple may indeed be using the Apple TV to test the live broadcasting waters, as evidenced by its recent decision to stream former Beatle Paul McCartney’s live performance this Thursday. The company “announced” via a banner…

AlphaDog robo pack-mule begins outdoor trials, noisily hikes into your nightmares

Boston Dynamics’ LS3, better known ’round these parts as AlphaDog, has already wowed us with a display of its stability, power and mobility. Thing is, that little clip we caught back in October took place entirely within the safe and purposefully laid …

Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Web—and might win

The city of Tyler, Texas, is better known as the nation’s “rose capital” than as a hotspot of the technology industry. It’s a quiet, conservative city of about 100,000, full of wide streets and…

Forget transparent aluminum: researchers make iron invisible to X-rays

Transparency is generally a property of a material’s density or
crystal structure, and varies depending on the wavelength of
light. However, transparency can also be achieved by exploiting quantum interference between ener…

Tweetbot hits 2.0, heads to iPad with new features and UI in tow

The dev folk over at Tapbots have just unleashed a major overhaul to their famed Twitter client. Tweetbot 2.0 not only sees the addition of a few new traits and a design refresh, but it’s also on the receiving end of some welcomed iPad compatibility …

Apple hoping to secure standardized royalties for 3G wireless patents

Apple is attempting to stop the used of “standards essential” patents on 3G technology as legal bludgeons against smartphone competitors. To make its case, the company has gone directly to the standards body behind 3G wirel…

HTML5-based Depthcam puts a fresh spin on Kinect hacks

It’s not the first time we’ve seen HTML5 used in conjunction with a Kinect hack, but George MacKerron’s so-called Depthcam takes things to some interesting new levels. It’s a live webcam that you can interact with in your web browser (Chrome only, for…