Google is currently making a pair of glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyes in real time.

Today’s Google Doodle barely resembles the usual company logo, as Google celebrates the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. The name Hertz is today familiar to practically everyone who’s in contact with computer technology. The processors that power today’s computers, smartphones and tablets all have their heartbeat expressed in hertz (Hz), or – more likely – megahertz or gigahertz. Hertz is a SI unit of frequency which measures the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. Germ...

The founder of file-sharing site Megaupload has been granted bail by a New Zealand court. Kim Dotcom, 38, has been in prison since 20 January at the request of the US authorities. He faces charges in the US for one of the biggest copyright infringement cases in the country's history. The site is accused of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. North Shore District Court Judge Nevin Dawson overturned two previous rulings that the millionaire, who is a German national,...

Calling all supertaster space nerds: NASA wants your help to improve the bland food astronauts would have to eat while on a mission to Mars. The space agency is looking for applicants to eat astronaut food for four months during a simulated trip to the Red Planet. Participants will try instant foods, and ones with shelf-stable ingredients, and scientists will record their reactions. The goal of the experiment is to discover what foods people like to consume consistently. Cornell University and U...

It was true in January and a month later it's still true: your iPad was built in part by teenagers working 12-hour days for under $2 an hour. So was your iPhone, and in all likelihood, your Xbox, your Windows phone and other devices from likes of Dell, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard. On Tuesday, ABC's Nightline broadcast its tour of Foxconn, the Chinese contract manufacturer that reportedly builds 40 percent of the world's electronics. It accompanied Fair Labor Association inspectors on their fir...

The Perfect Palette, a wedding blog that explores “the color palette possibilities for your wedding” and serves as a resource for other wedding ideas, would seem to be a perfect match for Pinterest, and it is. The site is far and away the biggest brand on Pinterest with more than 240,000 followers, according to Zoomsphere. The rest of the list illustrates that media titles that cater to the nesting instinct have a definite advantage. (As do publications that write about Pinterest, including Mash...

This year's hottest new online service is undoubtedly Pinterest, the "virtual pinboard" website. Once a social site becomes popular with consumers, brands soon follow. In 2011 brands flocked to Google+ when it became the hot new thing. Now, in 2012, brands are beginning to make their way onto Pinterest. In this post we'll look at some examples of how brands are visualizing themselves on Pinterest, along with emerging best practices.The appeal of Pinterest is that it's primarily a visual site, so...

Move over, Rebecca Black. Make room for Tommy Jordan. The heat-packing, tech-savvy dad who plugged nine rounds into his daughter’s laptop in a YouTube-broadcasted fit of parental retribution is rapidly blowing the pop star’s notorious “Friday” video out of the water in the 24/7 viral video derby. “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen,” uploaded exactly two weeks ago, has already amassed more than 28 million views on YouTube. That’s some 5 million more than the most recent re-uploaded versio...

He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has mad…

Storify for iPad. That's a complete sentence. Storify is a noun, yes. It's a company that makes an app. But it's also a verb that company invented. To storify is to take a series of discrete moments and thread them into a story. It stand alone or be embedded on a blog. With the Storify app, you can draw in posts from all over the Web and storify them. Storifying preserves events as they unfolded live online. It's changing the way news happens.Storify for iPad. It's an imperative. You, go downloa...

When GrubHub started, it was just a pair of hungry guys with an idea. Now the website (and mobile app), which allows users to find delivery and takeout restaurants nearby and order the food online, is a multi-million dollar company. Back in 2004, Matt Maloney and Mike Evans were both working as developers at Apartments.com, a site that helps you find apartments and condos to rent. The job required a lot of late nights at the office. "We were hungry, and sick of ordering the same pizza all the ti...

With one fell swoop, Twitter has confronted privacy concerns, returned missed features to its mobile audience, and opened its information network up to even more tablet-toting folks. Twitter for iPhone and Android received updates Tuesday. The fixes address previously identified …

Comcast is taking aim at Netflix, unveiling an Internet streaming-video service that will give existing Comcast video customers a selection of old TV shows and movies.

(Reuters) - U.S. crime-fighters failed in a bid to keep alleged Internet pirate Kim Dotcom behind bars on Wednesday when a New Zealand court freed him from jail and instead put him under effective house arrest and banned him from using the Internet. The court, in upholding a bail application by the German founder of file-sharing website Megaupload, cast some doubt on the multi-millionaire's purported flight risk pending an extradition hearing scheduled for August. "I'm relieved to go home and se...

Yelp is ready to hit the marketplace with a $100 million IPO on March 2, and both investors and the tech community will be watching to see how the location network will fare. While the numbers are certainly nowhere near Facebook IPO territory, Yelp has proven itself over the long haul with steady user and revenue growth since 2005. But despite the upward climb, Yelp has yet to turn a profit, posting a net loss of $16.8 million in 2011 — its biggest shortfall to date. It’s presumed public investm...

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom speaks to reporters after being released on bail Link to this video Kim Dotcom, the founder of the filesharing website Megaupload, has been granted bail and released after a New Zealand judge ruled that the authorities have seized any funds he might have used to flee the country. US authorities allege Dotcom facilitated millions of illegal downloads through his company. He had been in custody since his arrest on 20 January and the site has been shut down. Dotcom spo...

Good morning! Here's the news: Google's Terminator glasses will be ready for sale by the end of the year. Nightline aired a special on Apple's Foxconn factories last night -- here's what you missed. Foxconn allegedly hid underage employees for its most recent inspection. Someone is paying tribute to Steve Jobs with a special Facebook Timeline. Dell blows its earnings. Cost-cutting only works for so long. Kim Dotcom was just bailed out of jail. This Princeton dropout's startup got the attention o...

Rapportive, a startup that makes a Gmail add-on that displays social media info about contacts as you email them, confirmed on Wednesday that it had been purchased by LinkedIn. Rahul Vohra, CEO of Rapportive, confirmed the acquisition on the company’s blog. “In business, partnership is dating — and we went on a lot of dates with LinkedIn. Slowly, but surely, we fell in love,” Vohra wrote. Vohra wrote that despite the new ownership, Rapportive will continue building its product. “At LinkedIn, we ...

Microsoft said it has filed a competition law complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility in regard to Motorola's handling of standards-essential patents.

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Tencent Holdings Ltd. is China’s biggest Internet company, with 430 million users. Even so, it is only No. 6 in attracting advertising because its customers are considered students and farmers without much discretionary income.Enter the smartphone.China’s online advertising market expanded more than 40 percent to $4.2 billion last year, according to Media Partners Asia. The industry may exceed $10 billion by 2015, it said. Tencent Chief Executive Officer Ma Huateng is wooi...