***UPDATED: Klout Influence Ratings Are Very Weird***   @TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/science-social-contagion-klout/   San Francisco, CA–Following the release of Klout for iOS, an application that allows users to more obnoxiously broadcast their presumed internet importance, über-conscious socialites and iPhone owners around the world are rejoicing.   Klout, a social media analytics site, measures so-called “Social Influence” on a 1 to 100 scale.  This k-score, as it is known to internet fame fiends, is determined via a complex algorithm [...]

Elmont, NY– Fifteen years after the remarkable success of chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue, IBM has announced that it will enter its robotic “superhorse,” nicknamed Thick Silver, into this weekend’s Belmont Stakes.   The announcement comes in the wake of Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another’s injury, leg tendonitis that will derail the horse’s chances to make history. Said lead engineer Rae-Li Huang of the robotic-horse department in IBM’s Deep Blue Lab, “Tendonitis? Robots don’t even have tendons!”   [...]

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Coachella, CA– For many of Apple’s tech-zealots, the late Steve Jobs was never truly gone, so long as his innovative spirit lived on in iPad and iCloud form. Now, his ineffable genius has again taken three-dimensional shape, assuaging fears that Jobs had actually succumbed to cancer in October of 2011.  And no, we’re not referring to the new “iHeaven” product.   Following the massive success of the Tupac Shakur “baby don’t cry I’m trending now” [...]

Tech and the Elderly is a new segment on CachedTech. Each week, we will send our iReporters to the technologically incompetent town of Boca Raton, FL, to interview local retirees and snowbirds. (We had planned to perform these interviews via Skype, but 17 residents of Century Village Boca had seizures while attempting to set up a chat.) The 80+ demographic, entranced by Facebook and Twitter but unable to use either, needs to have its voices [...]

Sunnyvale, CA–   Peter Robsworth, superintendent of the Silicon Valley School District, announced today that all public high schools in The Valley of Venture Capital Firms That Harnessed the Power of the Sun will now offer courses in Computer Hacking for students. These courses, part of an extensive program to “provide students with skills for the real world,” according to Robsworth, will be pre-requisites for graduation.   “In the Silicon Valley,” the superintendent told reporters following [...]

Facebook made headlines on Monday morning when it announced its pending acquisition of the photo sharing program “Instagram.” According to sources, it represents the supercompany’s largest purchase since it acquired the legal rights to change the entire plot of “The Social Network.”   Tech experts love the move, citing the large photo-data acquisition that this takeover represents. Analysts at Dave’s Data Dojo in Fruitdale, CA published a recent report (you can see the report here), [...]

  Last week, Samsung announced plans to release the “Beg-O-Dex 2k12,” a product designed for startup founders to streamline the difficult process of fundraising. The North American COO of Samsung, Bruce Harjag, has been quoted as saying, of Beg-O-Dex, “What water was to Jesus, Beg-O-Dex is to startups.” When asked for clarification regarding this enigmatic statement, Harjag replied, “Well, you know, Jesus walked on water to prove that he was the Messiah. Startup founders can, [...]