You might think the future of surround audio lies in sophisticated DSP-driven single-box soundbars or even crazy wireless headphones, but Audyssey Labs knows the truth: what you really need is more speakers. Up to 11 of ‘em, to be exact, as part of the company’s new Dynamic Surround Expansion system. Like the 9.1 channel Dolby [...]

The domain Ad.com sold for $1.4 million yesterday at domain name registration company Moniker’s TRAFFIC conference in Silicon Valley. The winning bidder was Divyank Turakhia of Directi.com and CEO of Skenzo, a domain parking company. Moniker made more than $2 million in domain names at the TRAFFIC auction, with Ad.com taking the highest bid. Bottledwater.com [...]

This afternoon Charles River Ventures partner George Zachary is sitting down for a one on one interview with Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla whose other credentials include cofounding SpaceX and PayPal. The interview promises to be an interesting one – Musk hasn’t been known to pull any punches. Michael, who is attending the event, [...]

BuddyPress, the side project of blogging powerhouse WordPress, has just hit version 1.0 and has officially launched. It’s basically a social layer that you can lay on top of your WordPress account or blog to give it some of the social network features that you’re already familiar with from larger social networking sites. Here’s what [...]

We’ve seen iPod hacks run the gamut, from the useful to the just plain absurd, but no matter how rough around the edges such a project may seem, we always get a kick out of the ingenuity and hard work involved. Today’s DIY wonder comes from a cat named Benjamin Kokes, who’s using his engineering [...]

NEW YORK — CBS News is finding increased online video views with effective use of social media tools, Dan Farber, CBSNews.com Editor-in-Chief, told me this afternoon. We met in a busy newsroom which was preparing for a special webcast hosted Katie Couric with Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington, The Atlantic’s Political Editor Marc Ambinder, Politico.com’s Chief [...]

Not much is known about the the upcoming movie of Wall Street 2 other than it will once again team up actor Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko and director Oliver Stone. When 1938 Media’s Loren Feldman heard the news this morning, he decided to come up with his own script—on Twitter. Over the course of [...]

It’s Claude Shannon’s birthday. He’s the guy who figured out that the binary nature of Boolean logic is analogous to the ones and zeros used by digital circuits, and thus became the father of modern info theory. Plus, he was an interesting dude in other respects.

: The first hint that something was up came in a letter stamped "Lost Post." It was addressed to the family of six who had recently moved into the sprawling Fifth Avenue apartment—and was apparently written by a former occupant who had died decades earlier. Inside the envelope was a poem full of riddles, the [...]