On this, the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, the man who invented it is calling for a higher order of net neutrality. No, not Al Gore. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who facilitated the flow of “a ‘web’ of notes with links between them,” has posted on Google’s blog, saying that his original intentions
It seems Google is aware that their newfangled augmented reality eyewear has a public image problem, with privacy issues surfacing around facial recognition software and the fact that early adopters are basically positing themselves as geeky, walking camcorders. So the tech giant has put together a
Senator Al Franken has spoken out against Nametag, one of the first facial recognition apps for Google Glass, saying that we “cannot reasonably prevent [ourselves] from being identified” by the all-seeing eye of geeks with amazing eyepieces. The app scans the faces of everyone in your vicinity and g
The New Aesthetic continues to leave its untraceable mark on reality with Build, the browser toy for Chrome that lets you construct Lego structures right on top of Google Maps. The project was started a year ago by a bunch of Australians and now is reaching into daylight. To play it means you have t
Google has put together a sizzle reel, a term I’m using completely ironically, to show off what their Google Glass eyewear can do for games. These augmented mini-games feature not-so-riveting gameplay, such as pretending to balance books on the Android robot’s head, bouncing a tennis ball from your
