On the night of May 5, a golden retriever named Gucci gave birth, live and online via puppycam, to a healthy litter of adorable puppies, each one with an important task ahead. The eight pups, who are visible via live stream (below) courtesy of Explore.org, will grow up to assist wounded veterans and others with disabilities as service dogs East Coast Assistance Dogs (ECAD), which has a program for wounded veterans, Project HEAL, trains dogs "to retrieve items, open doors, activate light switches, pull wheelchairs, balance, brace, and perform many other highly specialized tasks." As future s... Read similar

The crescendo of media reports about the advent of a DIY printable firearm has caused an understandable uproar. In the wake of so many high-profile, mass-casualty incidents involving firearms -- and a lot of impotent rage by our elected officials -- it seems counterintuitive that, as we circle the wagons around the idea of passing rational gun legislation at the federal level, we can also literally create a gun.Read similar

A couple of new boards are making your DIY projects wireless.Read similar

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Google says that the fight between television and YouTube is over, and they say that the internet video streaming service has won indefinitely. During a recent presentation to advertisers, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that the outcome of whether or not YouTube will overtake television has “already happened.” Schmidt said that “the future is now” Read The Full StoryRead similar

#watchthis It's going to look silly! But more seriously, it seems like we're all going to have to accept that wearing technology is going to be the real future and not just the imagined future of science fiction movies. We won't know we're in the future until we're wearing technology like Google Glass or Apple's supposed iWatch. PBS Off Book decided to take a look at what that future of wearable technology would look like. More »     Read similar

This week Larry Page stepped on stage at Google I/O 2013 during the one keynote of the multi-day event, speaking about how the company must continue to create and advance without getting distracted the negative elements that appear in competition. He made mention of the film The Internship as a good program to get the Read The Full StoryRead similar

Fast forward to 2020. What job skill must you have? CodingWell, we may be getting ahead of ourselves slightly. It's uncertain that HTML and CSS in their current form will be on the menu of the next decade. But what we do know is, for the foreseeable future, coding is one of the most important and desirable skills there is, no matter how it evolves.Coding is the new black. And it's getting so hot that there are a slew of startups focusing on teaching coding — to your kids.For those of us grown up and out of grammar school, there are two schools of thought: specialized education programs o... Read similar

Pictures of an  NEC Terrain has been spotted online giving us an idea as to what we might expect out of AT&T in the near future. Photos obtained by @evleaks show a portrait QWERTY form factor and what looks to be Android 4.1 experience. Presumably this model will be a low-cost Android aimed at business users who need to pound ...The post NEC Terrain surfaces as future AT&T smartphone appeared first on AndroidGuys.Read similar

Looks like the boys over at CyanogenMod want to add a nice little feature to their camera, and I am all for this feature. Hands free photos will now be added to future CM builds, that allows you to snap a photo from a distance using a trigger word. As you can see from the [...]Read similar