Mike Tuttle

Computer engineers may have just provided the medical community a new way of figuring out exactly how one of the three building blocks of life forms and functions. University of Central Florida Engineering Assistant Professor Shaojie Zhang used a complex …

A Simon Fraser University graduate student project that melds music, meditation and modern technology has landed a rare spot as an exhibit at TEDActive 2012 in Palm Springs, California this month. Jay Vidyarthi’s project, Sonic Cradle, allows individuals to use …

For politicians and public figures, there are few things more embarrassing then having a name synonymous with scandal or disgrace. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is a prime example of this, remembered now for little more than his lewd conduct on …

Capitol Records (EMI) was denied a motion request for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court in New York on February 8. ReDigi, an online marketplace for pre-owned digital music and revolutionary cloud service technology that verifies the legitimacy …

Since Pinterest is making huge waves, it should be no surprise that there are clones popping up all over. Some may even have been parallel development rather than “copying” Pinterest. But, it ain’t about who got to the starting line …

Pinterest. It’s the latest and greatest. funneling traffic to retail sites like mad. It’s releasing an API. We’ve talked about it a lot already, but there’s plenty more to come. But, for now, here’s a neat little infographic brought to …

In the 1800s, “intelligence” meant that you were good at memorizing things. Today “intelligence” is measured through IQ tests where the average score for humans is 100. Researchers at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the …

Scientists at DESY have made iron transparent. Well, let’s back up a moment. DESY is the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, or “German Electron Synchrotron”, the biggest German research center for particle physics. What they have been working on there is making …

The 11th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival wil be held June 7-10, 2012 in Manchester, Tennessee. Usually, folks flock to the Bonnarroo webpage to see what the lineup will be for the festival. Then, they’re off to iTunes, YouTube, …

Conventional wisdom tells us that berthing car exhaust is bad. It further tells us that electric cars would cut down on emissions and thus be better for the breathing population. But, some new studies focusing on China have brought up …

A study published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics this month suggests that parents and caregivers could be putting children at risk if they upload digital photos that are automatically “geotagged” by their camera. Joanne Kuzma …

Scientists are learning that Google Earth is a good way to verify government activity. “This shows the promise of Google Earth for collecting and verifying data, which means a few trained scientists can use a freely available program to fact-check …

Online dating is rough enough when people are all above-board and honest about themselves, their past, their plans and preferences. But, when you throw dishonesty into the mix, it can get ugly fast. No one wants to wind up investing …

Pinterest is taking off like a scalded cat in the United States. The social site has attracted lots of attention in the past few months due to its out to linked retailers. But, a study of Pinterest‘s performance elsewhere has …

The famous South By Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas is coming up next month. The festival consists of three parts: Interactive, Film and Music. The Film and Music portions of the festival have their own followers and scene in …

After five months, European Union regulators have approved of the purchase of Motorola Mobility by Internet search giant Google, Inc. The main reason Google wants to purchase Motorola is to increase its stable of patents. The EU was mainly concerned …

The Social Media Week conference is happening in 12 cities around the world this week. We discussed the conference in general here earlier. And you can sneak a peek at the lineup for the week here. There is a wealth …

We gave you the Monday lineup of Social Media Week events for NYC in a previous article. There are tons of events in the San Francisco area, as well. For a complete listing, go to this page. Here are a …

The Social Media Week conference takes place in 12 cities around the world. You can learn more about the conference in general here, including information on how to follow the conference on Twitter and blogs. If you are curious about …

To give you an idea of the kinds of activity going on at the Social Media Week 2012 conference (SMW), let’s have a look at some of the tweets coming out of the conference. You can follow the Twitter feeds …

Social Media Week (SMW) has taken on the theme for the 2012 conference of “Empowering Change Through Collaboration”. The worldwide event will look at how social media affects and is affected by global events including weather, political change, etc. The …

Social Media Week (SMW) kicks off today. The week-long conference spans 12 cities around the world and encompasses over 1000 events in places like Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, …

Pinterest was actually founded in 2008. However, since @Pinterest because not discovered / predicted by usual tech crowd, old boys network. 1 hour ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto >>> How do you or people you know use Pinterest? Let us …

Viral videos are a funny thing. First, there was the song “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye (pronounced Go-Tee-Yay) The video for that has been viewed 67 million times. Then came the cover by Walk On the Earth. …