A possible new species of spider in the Cyclosa genus has been discovered that builds a realistic, larger fake decoy spider to confuse predators (or to lure in prey). The decoy spider is built like a larger version of the spider itself, complete with legs and all, and is about an inch in body length.…
Single issues of digital DC Comics are now available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple. Previously digital single issues were available only in Comixology and DC Apps and the only comics viewable on Amazon and Barnes and Noble devices were graphic novels. The new digital single issues can be viewed on the color Amazon…
Reports indicate that Amazon is getting close to greenlighting a new, original musical comedy titled “Browsers”. The single-camera project was originally developed last year at CBS, but it didn’t get beyond the script stage. “Browsers” revolves around four interns working at a Huffington Post-esque website, with musical elements woven into the narrative.
Amazon has rolled out a new photo-management application, Cloud Drive Photos for Android, this morning. The application integrates tightly with the photo capabilities in Android. Users can press and hold a photo in the gallery and choose “Upload to Cloud Drive” to send photos to Amazon’s cloud storage service or choose to upload all photos…
Amazon is reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which is affecting several big-name sites including Reddit, Coursera, Imgur, Flipboard, FastCompany, Heroku, Airbnb, Github, VYou and many more.
Rumors are circulating that Amazon is looking to buy Texas Instruments’ (TI) smartphone and table oriented OMAP chips division, bringing its table business model more in line with Apple and Samsung. Recall that TI recently announced that it was exiting the smartphone and OMAP chip business and moving its focus to embedded platforms (particularly in…
Amazon has opened a new Amazon Halloween Store featuring masks, candy, home decorations, arts and crafts, special effects makeup, and even spooky tools. The Halloween Store sells costumes for men, women, kids, babies, and pets. Below is a sampling of goods.
Lot’s of new gear introduced by Amazon today. Amazon held an invite-only event in an airplane hanger in Santa Monica, California. Guests were treated to several product announcements, some of which could be game changers. They again stressed the tablet as a service device and not a gadget (which means Amazon makes their profits off…
The book reviews that customers submit on Amazon are usually pretty serious stuff. In this unusual case, the review is quite humorous. Whether the humor was on purpose or not is debatable
Organizers of the so-called Operation Payback today asked for and appear to have received additional bots from established botnets to further their cause of disrupting firms they perceive as deterring Internet freedom of speech by not supporting WikiLeaks and its now-incarcerated founder, Julian Assange, according to researchers at Imperva.
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