Times Square's new digital billboard is almost the length of a football field
New Yorkers passing through Times Square will see (whether they want to
or not) the biggest, most expensive digital billboard (at least in the
US) when it turns on this Tuesday night. The screen is big enough to run
a whole block, from 45th to 46th... Read More ...
Toshiba joins other tech giants in growing super-clean vegetables
The name "Toshiba" conjures images of stacks of laptops piled high and
maybe the occasional television, but the Japanese electronics giant is
turning its attention to something just a little more humble: lettuce.
Well, spinach too. And swiss chard.... Read More ...
How would you change Huawei's Ascend P6?
Huawei's career trajectory from Chinese white-label OEM to brand
mainstream users "know" really hit a milestone with the Ascend P6. After
all, this was the device that was designed to blend the best of iOS and
Android into a mainstream device that... Read More ...
Early Apple Pay stats point to a modest but promising start
Sure, Apple was quick to tout a surge of Apple Pay registrations, but
how often are people actually using the iPhone-focused payment service? A
fair amount, apparently. Whole Foods tells the New York Times that it
racked up 150,000 transactions in... Read More ...
Court order stops Bitcasa from deleting your cloud data, for now
If you're miffed that Bitcasa not only dropped its unlimited cloud
storage option but made you migrate to a costlier limited tier just to
keep your files, you'll be glad to hear that you're getting a reprieve.
Angry customers have filed a tentative... Read More ...
Facebook wants to handle your workplace chats
Your office may try to keep you off Facebook right now, but you may
have a genuinely work-related reason to hop on that social network in
the near future. Sources for the Financial Times understand that the
internet giant is developing "Facebook at... Read More ...
Motorola's march toward mobility
We owe a lot to Motorola and its team of inventors and engineers. The
company made breakthroughs in portable radio and brought us one of the
first-ever cellphones. It launched the flip phone, the clamshell and the
wildly popular RAZR V3. There have... Read More ...
Inhabitat's Week in Green: Glow-in-the-dark roads, lettuce factories and a liquid-filled lamp
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting
green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.Could the entire world someday run on solar power? The amount of energy that hits the Earth in just 40...
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Forget quadratic equations, play 'Super Smash Bros.' on your TI-83
The geniuses that guided Rosetta's lander onto a freaking comet no
doubt put their TI-83s to good use, but you know what the rest of us
were doing with them? Yeah, playing Wolfenstein. Now you can misspend
physics class with another game: Super Smash... Read More ...
Kids can now program toys that talk to just about anything
There's no shortage of smart toys, but they tend only to talk to each
other. What if your kid wants the freedom to use them with just about
anything? That's where Dynepic's upcoming DynePod might help. It may
look like a simple 25-pixel block of... Read More ...
Facebook will filter out excessively promotional Page posts in 2015
Facebook is thankfully taking more steps to show fewer spammy posts on
your News Feed -- and we're not talking about traditional web ads. We're
talking about overly promotional status updates posted by Page
accounts, like the ones you can see after... Read More ...
Ford, UPS and Visa want net neutrality, but they won't tell you that
It's not just tech giants (and President Obama) pushing for a tougher
approach to net neutrality -- other outlets want reforms, too. A trio of
regulatory filings reveal that representatives from Bank of America,
Ford, UPS and Visa spoke to FCC... Read More ...
Nexus 6 review, Lisa Kudrow talks 'The Comeback' and other stories you might've missed
This Saturday, why not sit back, kick up your feet and let us bring you
up to speed on all the latest tech news. Over the past seven days, we
spoke with Lisa Kudrow about "The Comeback," reviewed the Nexus 6,
investigated the legal issues behind... Read More ...
You can play Penn & Teller's wonderfully uneventful 'Desert Bus' in VR
Ask veteran gamers about the least eventful title you can play and
they'll probably mention Desert Bus. The legendary minigame from the
unreleased Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors has you driving
from Tucson to Las Vegas on a featureless road... in... Read More ...
One year in, here's what our readers think of the PlayStation 4
One year ago today, the PlayStation 4 was released in North America.
When we took a look at it in our original review, we lauded the console
for its "masculine chassis" that could "compete for visual attention" in
your living room, a controller... Read More ...
Uber cars will soon stream passengers' Spotify playlists, reports say
Spotify and Uber might launch a collab as soon as Monday -- one that'll
have you jamming to your favorite tunes with the service's drivers.
According to TechCrunch, the ride-sharing company's iPhone and Android
apps will soon come with the capability... Read More ...
Super-sized wooden emoji are Nick Offerman's latest project
Ron Swanson is the portrait of manliness on Parks and Recreation, and
in real life, Nick Offerman is an avid craftsman. The Offerman Woodshop
cranks out all kinds of wares using its namesake material, and a recent
effort took quite the tech culture... Read More ...
Recommended Reading: NYC's new subway hub is an architectural marvel
Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology
and more in print and on the web. Some weeks, you'll also find short
reviews of books that we think are worth your time. We hope you enjoy
the read.How James Carpenter Gave...
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In Germany, these servers want to keep every home warm
Most places around the world are getting ready to bring out the
blankets and coats, in preparation for the cold, cold season ahead.
Knowing this, a company called Cloud & Heat has come up with a
very interesting idea, one that's beneficial to both it... Read More ...
Uber launches in Leeds, its third UK city
Uber's UK footprint might be small, but it's already come in for some
heavy criticism, especially in London. As competitors ready new services
in an attempt to leverage more custom, Uber has decided its ready to
expand beyond London and Manchester by... Read More ...
Netflix's public API is dead, but InstantWatcher is not
It's amazing how quickly five months fly by. Netflix announced in June
that its public API would shut off and now we've reached the appointed
day. As we mentioned then, several of the popular third-party tools
built with access to Netflix's services... Read More ...
Sweet dreams, Philae: ESA's lander goes to sleep in the absence of sunlight
ESA's comet lander Philae has ran out of batteries and gone to sleep at
7:30PM on November 14th, 2014. It was supposed to harness solar energy
to continue its operations, but it unfortunately bounced twice during
touchdown and settled in the shade.... Read More ...
US Navy puts its first laser weapon into service
It's official: the US Navy has entered the future. Vice Admiral John
Miller tells Bloomberg that the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport, has
been using the Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS) in the Persian Gulf
since late August. The high-tech arsenal... Read More ...
AT&T: We're not tracking subscribers using permanent cookies anymore
In late October, researchers discovered that AT&T and Verizon
attach tracking numbers to the web traffic coming from their customers'
phones, in order to keep an eye on their online habits. Now, Ma Bell
says it's stopped doing so -- the company... Read More ...
Engadget Daily: Lisa Kudrow talks 'The Comeback,' a pinhole selfie cam and more!
Remember Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay) from Friends? Of course you do! We
sat down with her for a chat, but surprise: it wasn't about Friends at
all. Read on for the rest of our news highlights from the last 24 hours,
including a hipster selfie cam,... Read More ...
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