Category: Technology

  • Digital Printing Growing Rapidly, Poised to Overtake Offset Methods

    Digital Printing Growing Rapidly, Poised to Overtake Offset Methods

    Digital printing is growing at a rate of 25% annually and will overtake traditional offset printing within 40 years, a top official in the Indian Printing Packing and Allied Machinery Manufacturers Association told the Economic Times Dec. 15. Estimates differ on exactly how soon digital methods will make up the bulk of the printing market,…

  • LED Lights Take Center Stage in Citywide Energy Conservation Plans

    LED Lights Take Center Stage in Citywide Energy Conservation Plans

    As the issue of global warming has become more visible, largely in the form of melting icebergs and endangered species, millions of private businesses and homes across the world have taken matters into their own hands and have begun replacing traditional appliances with energy-saving counterparts — and every energy-wasting item, right down to traditional halogen…

  • Harvard Grad Hacks 2D Printer to Create 3D Printed Beauty Products

    Harvard Grad Hacks 2D Printer to Create 3D Printed Beauty Products

    A 30-year-old Harvard business school grad from Queens, NY, may just be about to turn the printing and cosmetic industries upside-down in one fell swoop. Grace Choi recently stunned attendees of a hackathon called MHacks at the University of Michigan by tearing apart an ordinary, 2D printer and converting it into a 3D printer for…

  • Selfies Help Connect Police With Stolen Phones After Burglary

    Selfies Help Connect Police With Stolen Phones After Burglary

    Selfies are everywhere these days — they even comprise a popular song, #Selfie, by the group The Chainsmokers. This week, selfies even made their way into a burglary in Santa Clarita Valley, California. On July 30, an unnamed woman in Santa Clarita reported that her home was broken into. The burglars cut the mesh screen…

  • This Fall’s 5 Most Talked About Smartphone Launches

    This Fall’s 5 Most Talked About Smartphone Launches

    Mobile traffic now accounts for nearly 16% of all Internet traffic, and this number is expected to increase exponentially as more mobile users switch to smartphones. This September may be just the time to convert more mobile users to smartphones, or at least get users to upgrade their devices. The changing of the season will…

  • The New York Times Struggles to Keep Traffic in the Digital Age

    The New York Times Struggles to Keep Traffic in the Digital Age

    The New York Times, one of America’s most iconic newspapers, has been struggling to keep up with the digital age. For example: when Nelson Mandela died, The New York Times published a full-length feature about Mandela’s life and various contributions. Soon after, the story was picked up and repackaged by The Huffington Post — who…

  • Report: Enterprise Software Firm Epicor Valued at $3.5 Billion in Sale by Apax Partners

    Report: Enterprise Software Firm Epicor Valued at $3.5 Billion in Sale by Apax Partners

    Private equity firm Apax Partners is continuing its long running search for a buyer for Epicor, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor. The firm first bought Epicor for $2 billion in 2011, an investment that seems to have paid off somewhat after the ERP company generated over $1 billion in revenue in 2013. Despite…

  • Stephen Hawking Warns Developers: Artificial Intelligence May Turn Violent

    Stephen Hawking Warns Developers: Artificial Intelligence May Turn Violent

    Sensational science fiction films like I, Robot may not be that far-fetched. “Stephen Hawking and a group of top physicists are sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence, writing in The Independent that success in creating AI could be ‘the biggest event in human history,’ but also ‘the last,’” CNBC reports. Hawking writes that humans have…

  • Los Angeles Woman Pays $15,000 in Plastic Surgery for the Perfect Selfie

    Los Angeles Woman Pays $15,000 in Plastic Surgery for the Perfect Selfie

    What does it take to get the perfect selfie? For Los Angeles talent manager, Triana Lavey, 39, the solution wasn’t just to hashtag her photos with “#naturalbeauty” or use a flattering filter. Instead, Lavey has spent about $15,000 since 2010 in order to get the perfect selfie face after her beauty app just wasn’t cutting…

  • Viral Youtube Video is, Ironically, About the Dangers of Using Social Media Too Often

    Viral Youtube Video is, Ironically, About the Dangers of Using Social Media Too Often

    A Youtube video by writer and director Gary Turk has gone viral thanks to high-profile retweets by celebrities like Jordin Sparks and Andy Murray. In a strange relationship between the message and its audience, the video, which so far has been viewed almost 11 million times, is actually a critique of how often we use social…