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From Fantasy to Reality: Scientists Create Time Invisibility Cloak [VIDEO]You’ve probably seen fictional cloaks that can make people invisible, but now scientists have created a way to mask whole events in time. A team of researchers at Cornell University have come up with a way to essentially cloak time and space to make a actions appear invisible. It... LG to Roll Out Its Own Google TV at CES 2012 [PICS]LG announced it will introduce its own Google TV-equipped HDTV at CES 2010. The company says its “LG Smart TV with Google TV” will be an all-in-one unit , although it didn’t reveal the screen size yet. The 3D HDTV will use LG’s Cinema 3D technology that uses lightweig... Why Tablet Publishing Is Poised to Revolutionize Higher EducationTrevor Bailey is director of worldwide education at Adobe Systems, and leads the programs and strategies that make Adobe products easily available to education institutions. Today, only 57% of students who attend college in the U.S. actually graduate. The country ranks 12th among 36 developed cou... Google VP: Internet Access Not a Human RightInternet access, while an enabler of basic human rights, is not itself a human right, says Google Vice President Vinton Cerf. “There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right,” Cerf says in an opinion piece in Thursday’s New York Times. But Internet access, app... Today’s Top Stories: Thunderbolt on iOS, Ford’s Research Lab, Samsung Profits UpWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Apple Patent Paves Way for Thunderbolt on iOS Devices New patent applications from Ap... Mashable’s Digital Predictions for 2012It’s hard to believe all that came out of the tech world in the year 2011. From drastic changes in social media trends to unexpected company acquisitions — both startups and major corporations — it goes without saying that it has been a banner year for technology as a whole. W... HBO Stops Discounting Discs to Netflix, Intensifying Battle for ContentThe unspoken battle between HBO and Netflix got a little uglier on Thursday when it was revealed that the premium cable channnel had stopped offering DVDs to Netflix at a discount. As first reported by the The New York Times and later confirmed by both companies, the volume wholesale discounts th... Roku Streaming Stick Aims to Make Dumb TVs “Smart”Streaming media player company Roku just announced the new Roku Streaming Stick that will turn compatible TV sets into robust Internet-connected devices. The Roku Streaming Stick packs the power of a Roku player into something about the size of a USB flash drive. It plugs into the HDMI port on yo... Roku Streaming Stick Aims to Make Dumb TVs ‘Smart’Streaming media player company Roku just announced the new Roku Streaming Stick that will turn compatible TV sets into robust Internet-connected devices. The Roku Streaming Stick packs the power of a Roku player into something about the size of a USB flash drive. It plugs into the HDMI port on yo... Top 2012 Social Media Resolutions: Share Less, With Fewer PeopleDid 2011 mark the high point of oversharing? That seems to be the lesson behind a couple of studies that examined the New Year’s resolutions of social media users. Most of us, it seems, did make social media resolutions of some sort. In a Harris Interactive survey of 2,000 Americans who u... |