Okian Warrior writes “Attendees to this year’s New York Comic Con convention were allowed to pre-register their RFID-enabled badges online and connect their social media profiles to their badges — something, the NYCC registration site explained, that would make the ‘NYCC experience 100x cooler! For realz.’ Most attendees didn’t expect “100x cooler” to translate into…

The new 10.1-inch notebook will join a slowly growing number of PCs that use Android as their operating system…….

An anonymous reader writes “Google [on Friday] announced an upcoming change to its terms of service that will let the company add users’ names and photos to certain parts of its advertising as of November 11. Make no mistake: this is a direct attack against Facebook. One of the few advantages of Google+ is that…

In “Lego Space: Building the Future,” Peter Reid and Tim Goddard paint a picture of a fantastic society filled with interstellar battleships, new worlds, robots, and more. And they built it all in Lego bricks…….

With the first thought-controlled bionic leg pioneered in Chicago, the next steps for smart prosthetics are refining them for widespread use and tackling a huge hurdle: sensory feedback…….

Web.com DNS hijack latest: Password-reset high jinx fingered……

First time accepted submitter wasteoid writes “Aereo provides live-streaming and cloud-based DVR capability for Over-The-Air (OTA) broadcasts to their paying customers. Broadcasters object to this functionality, with Fox claiming about Aereo, ‘Make no mistake, Aereo is stealing our broadcast signal.’ The focus appears to be the ability of Aereo to provide streaming and DVR capabilities…

When we were down a support vehicle, we asked the folks at Land Rover if they had anything we could nab. The answer was a soccer mom’s dream…….

Nerval’s Lobster writes “One of the 600 3D-printed objects on display at a new London Science Museum exhibit is a Terminator-lookalike prosthetic arm designed by a 3D printing research group at the University of Nottingham, to demonstrate how printers can create both strong structural pieces, multi-directional joints and electronics to power touch sensors as part…

What do Samsung and LG mean when they talk about flexible displays, and how is that different from a bendable phone? CNET breaks it down…….