An advanced camera could help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in combat. The new camera was developed to navigate dangerous war conditions — darkness, bad weather and obscure surroundings. The camera was developed as a part of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) AWARE program — or the Advanced Wide Field of View Architectures for Image Reconstruction and Exploitation. The goal is to continue to provide more capable tools for soldiers to use...

Tweets, apps and status updates will join the usual barrage of dunks, three-pointers and no-look passes more than ever this weekend at the NBA’s annual All-Star event. For the first time, fans will be the sole dunk contest judges via Twitter, SMS and website-based voting. The league is also partnering with the social app Shaker to create a one-stop forum for fans to interact, chat and watch exclusive content. Updates to the NBA’s GameTime mobile app bring new channels for fans...

We’ve written considerable amounts about Google’s approach to China, which the company says it is still focused on despite the fact that it relocated its search engine to Hong Kong in 2010. Of all of the challenges that Google faces there, the fierce competition provided by Chinese rival Baidu is one of the biggest. Baiduis simply killing Google in its core market, search. Yet outside of China little is known of the company, which s very much like Google but with key differences....

Google is looking to get into the paid TV business. The company filed an application last week to provide video service to residents of Kansas City, Mo., according to The Wall Street Journal. If approved, the service could launch as soon as a month from now, according to the article, which cites a “media executive currently involved in negotiations to license channels to the service.” Offerings in the video package would include live TV as well as on-demand and online access to...

What is it about video game worlds that etch themselves so vividly in our mind’s eye? A fun new user-generated blog aims to unearth the latent digital cartographer in you. Mapstalgia is the brainchild of Josh Millard, a self-described “nerd-type” from Portland, OR. It’s a Tumblr where readers submit video game maps they’ve drawn from memory. The idea for the site came out of idle discussion on the message board Metafliter, where Millard works as a moderator...

Gearbox and 2K Games announced Wednesday that the sequel to the popular Borderlands will have a Sept. 18 release date for XBox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in the U.S., and on Sept. 21 internationally. The new trailer for Borderlands 2 released by 2K Wednesday showed off new playable characters, new skill tree selections, and environments that look radically different from the original game. Borderlands 2 will be a similar style to the original, with RPG character leveling combined with First-...

Vita Store Applications can be downloaded via the Vita store, under the Applications tab.Click here to view this gallery.If 15 games available at launch for PlayStation Vita wasn’t entertaining enough, early adopters of the game system are in for a treat. Free Twitter, Flickr and Netflix apps are now available for download at the PlayStation Store. The influx of social media apps brings this portable gaming system into tablet territory. The 5-inch OLED...

"Successful College Senior" Meme He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has made an unexpected and triumphant return to web stardom as a senior this week. The new image immediately caught the attention of Reddit users, who cleverly wasted no time turning it into a "Successful College Senior" meme. A "Lazy College Senior" meme already exists.Click here to view this gallery.He...

Google has today announced that it is adding the artificial language Esperanto to its Google Translate product. The language, which was crafted by Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof and published in 1887 book Unia Libro. It was designed as a common language that all people could share and, 125 years later, has hundreds of thousands of active users, some few hundred of which learned it from birth via their parents. Google implies that addition of the language a largely symbolic measure, designed to...

General Assembly, one of the 5 coolest coworking spaces in New York City, has long offered an impressive set of classes to its community. And in part a promotion for GA’s brand-new online program, Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, the team has created a truly impressive video series. The series, wisely named Stop Talking. Start Making, packs face-to-face advice from some of NY’s top entrepreneurs, like David Kelley (Founder of IDEO & Stanford’s d.school), Bre Pettis (...

Irony, thy name is patent law. Microsoft filed a complaint with the European Commission against Motorola for aggressively asserting its patents, charging that Motorola ignored commitments it made to support industry standards. The filing comes shortly after Apple registered a similar complaint. In a post titled “Google: Please Don’t Kill Video on the Web,” Microsoft says Motorola (which Google is in the process of acquiring) has broken its promise on the contribution...

ABC’s Nightline offered viewers a rare glimpse inside the Foxconn plants that produce Apple products Tuesday night. Apple has faced increased criticism concerning the working conditions within its factories. Fair-labor and human-rights groups have petitioned Apple to change its policies. And much of the credit for that goes to monologuist Mike Daisey. In early January, the radio program This American Life aired an episode titled “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” The...

Food Network targeted viewers who liked Paula Deen with targeted emails -- and earned a 300% increase in average open rates.

EventFarm is an online ticketing and guest registration startup from DC that’s like Eventbrite on steroids. Instead of being built around a main site and templates, EventFarm is a true platform where brands get all the attention. The company works on multiple levels within the event space and has already racked up an impressive client list since we first wrote about them as part of the emerging DC startup scene. Big clients include Facebook, Google, Conde Nast, Time Inc. and NBC Universal...

Are you addicted to the Internet? If so, you’re not alone. Some 61% of people feel addicted to the Internet and are unable to quit browsing, according to an informal survey. Opinion pollster SodaHead surveyed 602 visitors to its site Feb. 16. about whether they experience Internet addiction, and found that many people are self-diagnosed addicts. Women experience addiction more than men, with 64% of women compared with 55% of men reporting the symptoms of addiction. Interestingly,...

Verizon's planned alliance with three cable companies will undermine competition and harm consumers, advocacy groups argue in petitions filed with the Federal Communications Commission.

Attorneys general from 36 states told Google CEO Larry Page they are concerned by the company's plan to start combining information about signed-in users across a variety of products and services, including Gmail, Android, and YouTube.

Come April, several online advertising heavyweights are planning to host several upfront events, or what they're calling, Digital Content NewFronts. AOL, Digitas, Google/YouTube, Hulu, Microsoft Advertising and Yahoo are all participating, with a combined mission of shaping a new and practical marketplace for connecting digital content with brand marketers and their media and marketing agencies.

Women have had a better perception of Unilever's Axe brand than men since the company launched its first fragrance targeting both sexes, Anarchy, according to YouGov BrandIndex a daily consumer perception research service of brands. As a matter of fact, in the long run, women have mostly had a better perception of the traditional men's brand than men themselves.

An annual review of website traffic and search criteria submitted to leading online search and selection consultant AgencyFinder.com by registered advertisers shows that clients are more open to solutions from non-traditional marketing service providers than ever before.