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Lego Group is set to unveil the next generation of Mindstorms, the company's robot building system which first debuted 15 years ago, at CES 2013 in Las Vegas (via SFGate). The new Lego Mindstorms EV3 is centered around a redesigned “intelligent brick” that can be programmed even without using a computer. The report details that EV3 has more memory...

Being Tim Cook's first hire resulted in John Browett being his first fire, after only nine months of damage to Apple consumer satisfaction. Now Apple is once again in the market for an executive who will oversee its retail stores, which, by the way, are generating more than twice the revenue of Tiffany & Co.,...

Back in the last week of December we told you about Cycloramic, the neat app that spins your iPhone 5 around (on a flat shiny surface) using the vibrator motor to film video. Today, a very, very similar app has debuted called CamAround 360. It performs the same functions but also has filters to jazz...

Netflix has announced today it has signed an exclusive deal to stream Warner Bros. TV dramas in the U.S. The deal will make Netflix the exclusive home of prior seasons of shows from the 2012-2013 season, and customers can expect to see the following shows: Revolution (NBC), The Following (Fox) Longmire (A&E) Political Animals (USA)...

iOS users surely love apps, and the most recent Apple press release just illustrates the fact in raw numbers. According to the Cupertino company, its customers have downloaded more than 40 billion apps, with half of them last year alone. (more…)

60 Minutes has a video interview showcasing IDEO design firm founder, David Kelley. The latter shares some details about working with Apple as a client, and in particular with late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. Kelley's design firm, Hovey-Kelley (as it was known before being renamed to IDEO in 1991) was commissioned by Apple to design...

What do you do when a thief steals your iPhone, and there's an opportunity to retrieve it? You do whatever it takes, even if that means posing as a bodacious babe on a dating site to lure in the iPhone thief. That's what happened recently in Brooklyn, reports the NY Post: Nadav Nirenberg, 27, of...

Griffin Technology consistently releases some cool iOS accessories and the company has made a plethora of announcements at CES 2013. Here's a round up of what's been announced and what you can look forward to. There's accessories available for the whole family. Power Accessories PowerDock 5, $99.99 (available Spring 2013): charging bay for up to...

Apple's 12 Days of Christmas has reached its last and final day. Today's freebie is Gameloft's Shark Dash, a physics puzzle game with a fun theme. The game comes with 96 levels and four different environments, where you lead Sharkee through the bathtub world against evil ducks that have kidnapped his girlfriend. Reviews in iTunes...

We're down to day 11 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas, the second to last day. Today's freebie is a single and video from Canadian pop star (from Mission, BC), Carly Rae Jepson. The single "Almost Said It" is from her recent album with the same name, released in December. The free video is her...

In a statement today, Apple has said that it is one of the top corporate income taxpayers in the U.S, having paid $6 billion in federal corporate income taxes in fiscal year 2012, reports The New York Times. The statement has been released as the congressional investigators are wrapping up an inquiry into the accounting practices of technology...

Famous iOS hacker Plantebeing has today written a comment on Reddit, clarifying why an untethered jailbreak solution for iPhone 5 has not yet been released. He commented on hacker Pod2G's tweet in which he suggested his return to jailbreak development, urging community not to lose hope. Planetbeing explained that there are a couple of reasons why an...