Over a third of adults and nearly two thirds of teenagers admit they are “highly addicted” to their smartphones, UK communications watchdog Ofcom has revealed in its latestCommunications Market Report. The study, which polled 2,073 adults and 521 children and teenagers in March of this year, indicates that 27% of adults now own a smartphone, with almost half of teenagers now owning a device running a popular smartphone operating system including iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry OS....

After a moment of inspiration and hours of planning and preparation, photographerChris Kotsiopouloscreated this beautiful image portraying 24 hours, shot from Greece’s Temple of Poseidon, also known asSounionpromontory. It took him 12 hours to pull together and process a single image that included over 500 star trails, 35 shots of the Sun and 25 landscape pictures. Waiting for a clear day, Kotsiopoulos shot the above image on December 30th-31st of 2010....

Don’t believe in the power of crowdsourcing yet? Well, if initiatives such as Wikipedia and Ushahidi haven’t convinced you, the video below should pretty much negate anyone’s doubts about just how monumental a force crowdsourcing has become. Earlier today, in response to thecontinued blackout of the Internetin Egypt,Google and Twitter announcedthat they had set up phone numbers in Egypt for protesters to call into, that would then automatically be turned into voicemail messages, that would then be tweeted out on the account@Speak2Tweet....

Oh sure, 3D printing is still cool, regardless of the medium. Until now though, we’ve seen it done with eitherABS plasticor with some forms of powder which then becomes a solid in the rendering process. We’ve only recently seen 3D printing done with any sort of metal, and this is the first time that the metal in question happens to be titanium. See that golf ball-esque piece in the top there?...

BitTorrent trackers have endured a fair share of copyright related troubles in the past, but this doesn’t mean that there aren’t any copyright holders who have a positive view towards file sharing. Lithuanian studio Iron Cat is living proof of this, which, in an unusual move, chose BitTorrent trackerLinkomanijato become the official distributor of its upcoming movie. The independent movie production company Iron Cat announced that it has partnered with Lithuania’s most popular torrent tracker, LinkoManija, to distribute its upcoming film Barzda (The Beard), both in the country and abroad....