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Yahoo! Buys Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

May

2013

It’s about that time that we all get to cast some doubt once again on Marissa Mayer and the Yahoo! clan once again. Actually, Yahoo! buying Tumblr might be a good move for the once-mammoth web portal. With more than 300 million users on Tumblr, Yahoo! will immediately be expanding on its user profile, although ...

Friday Round Up: May 17

May

2013

The time has come once again for another edition of Friday Round Up. You’re probably expecting that all I’m going to do is cover all of the exciting things coming out of I/O this week. Sure, I’ll delve into that a little bit, but while Google seems to control many facets of our tech life, ...

NASA and Google Team Up on D-Wave Quantum Computer

May

2013

Quantum computing? Yes, it is such a thing. With the assistance of companies between the United States and Canada, Google and NASA will be coming together to launch a new lab that is meant to look into the promises of artificial intelligence through quantum computing. Just what is quantum computing? I’m probably not the most ...

Google plans to unveil competitor to Spotify

May

2013

To create some competition against Spotfiy, Google is set to reveal their own music streaming program at the I/O Conference which starts today and runs until Friday. There are some conflicting reports into whether Google is going to charge users for the service, and if so, how much the price tag is going to be. ...

Samsung Announces Development of 5G

May

2013

Yes it is true, but don’t get too excited just yet. Although the South Korean tech colossus announced that they have successfully developed and tested a 5G technology off of the 28GHz spectrum band, it is going to be a couple of years (around seven) before we see 5G technology available in a commercial setting. ...

Feds Order Removal of 3D Print Gun Blueprints

May

2013

Who would have ever thought that we would be bringing up the issue of gun control on a technology website? It’s something that many of us feared would be able to get created, and this week, we have seen the birth and action of the first 3D-printed weapon. A University of Texas Law student by ...

You can go to Mars…for good.

May

2013

I knew that I had a “silly” category for something, and I think I have found one of the pinnacle reserved moments for the category. An organization in the Netherlands called Mars One is giving the call for people all over the world to make their case on why they should be selected to make ...

Glass and Uncontrolled Hype

May

2013

Every tech site, mine included, has devoted a certain portion of their space to something that has to do with Google Glasses. Most of the time, it doesn’t even seem to be made up of much that’s positive at all. But still, we are all talking about it. The most recent episode of Saturday Night ...

Friday Round Up: May 3rd

May

2013

Happy first friday to all DX3ers – or is there really such a thing? Who knows. Besides the endless introspection in to just how successful this blog could or should be, let’s carry on with what I should have been carrying on with a long time ago. This ol’ Friday Round Up thing is all ...