Here's what you missed on the second day of CES
CES
is in full swing now, and most of the companies here have already laid
their cards on the table. It's bittersweet: It means that there are
fewer major announcements from big companies to gush over, but also that
we have more time to cruise the sh... Read More ...
SpaceX has to wait until mid-2015 to bid on Air Force rocket launches
By
mid-2015, SpaceX might finally be able to compete for some of the 36 or
so rocket launches the US Air Force is planning, according to The Wall
Street Journal. If you recall, the Elon Musk-helmed company sued the Air
Force last year, after the mili... Read More ...
BlackBerry will invade your wrist by bringing BBM to Android Wear
Messaging
services like Whatsapp have slowly been trickling onto our extremities
via Android Wear for what feels like ages now, so is it really any
surprise that BlackBerry's getting in on the action now too? At a press
breakfast earlier this morning... Read More ...
McDonald's to offer wireless charging in more than 50 UK restaurants
A
small bleep echoes from your smartphone as the battery indicator turns
red. Not headed to the office and no portable battery to hand? It's
going to be a long day. Just as public Wi-Fi has become the norm,
McDonald's is hoping Qi wireless charging w... Read More ...
The Big Picture: A sharper, more haunting Pillars of Creation
Does
the image above look familiar? It's because the "Pillars of Creation"
is one of the most iconic images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
-- except what you see in this post isn't the exact same photo taken in
1995. To celebrate the telescop... Read More ...
Premier League football clubs are banning selfie sticks from stadiums
Selfie
sticks, whether you love them or hate them, are now officially a thing.
Their numbers appear to have exploded over the Christmas period,
allowing new owners to begin working on their very best self portraits.
The increase of these telescopic r... Read More ...
Twitter adds 'Emmy award winner' to its list of accomplishments
Twitter
has just won an Emmy award. Yup, you read that right: the microblogging
site has scored itself an atom-toting statuette, though nobody's
dressing up in a blue bird costume and walking down the red carpet to
accept it (probably). What the comp... Read More ...
TalkTalk buys Tesco's Blinkbox and broadband services
It's
been a long time coming, but Tesco has finally offloaded its
loss-making streaming service Blinkbox. At the end of the last year, it
looked increasingly likely that TalkTalk has positioned itself as the
favourite to buy the service, and today th... Read More ...
Tiffany Shlain wants us all to unplug our gadgets every now and again
Tiffany
Shlain, the Emmy-nominated filmmaker and host of AOL's The Future
Starts Here is steeped in technology. That's why it may surprise you to
learn that she insists that her family, for one day each week, ditches
their smartphones and tablets to ... Read More ...
Microsoft's Office preview for Android tablets is now available to everyone
If
you've wanted to try the preview of Office for Android tablets during
its brief history, you've had to request to join a Google+ group. That's
not the hardest thing to do, but do you really want to participate in a
special club (and in some cases,... Read More ...
Dyson's new vacuums don't need you to clean the filter
Sure,
your vacuum cleaner might not need a bag anymore, but you're probably
still cleaning or replacing its filter every now and then to make sure
you're sucking up as much dirt as possible. You shouldn't have to if
Dyson's new Cinetic Science vacuum... Read More ...
Pro-Russian cyberattacks bring down German government websites
The
digital war over Ukraine isn't about to cool down any time soon. A
group of pro-Russian hackers calling itself CyberBerkut is taking credit
for cyberattacks that brought down German government websites,
including those for Chancellor Angela Merke... Read More ...
Watch Engadget After Hours for a recap of this day at CES 2015
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Audi's smartwatch collaboration with LG isn't running Android Wear
Audi
briefly, ever so briefly, brandished a not-before-seen smartwatch at
its CES event, showcasing some wearable-car connectivity that it's
working on. And while that's pretty cool in itself, the watch used to
show it off looked pretty darn classy, ... Read More ...
3D Robotics' CEO weighs in on the future of drones
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The GoPro Hero4 is about to get new photo and video modes
Got
a new GoPro? It's about to get better. The camera maker doesn't usually
release new products at CES, but it does have a habit of making small
announcements. Last year, it was that the GoPro channel was coming to
the Xbox; this year it's new firmw... Read More ...
LG's answer to Sonos is a lot like Sonos
LG
debuted its Music Flow series of wireless speakers last summer,
offering a range of speakers targeted squarely at competitor Sonos'
products. More recently, it moved away from aping Sonos with the H4
Portable, a battery-powered speaker that acts j... Read More ...
Thync's mood-changing wearable made me happy and frustrated
It's
eight-thirty in the morning. I'm sitting in a hotel suite in Las Vegas.
My colleague Dan Cooper is sitting next to me in near silence. Both of
us are in the same room, with the same silence, but we're feeling very
different things. I have an int... Read More ...
Sony's new 4K projectors: choose between 'cheap' or lasers
Sure
we can spend all day at CES checking out ridiculously large UHD TVs,
but if you want to max out your home theater then a projector is the
only way to go. Luckily, Sony has two fresh choices here at CES 2015 if
you can afford them. First up is it... Read More ...
A closer look at Dish's Sling TV service
If
you've been looking to give cable the boot, Dish's announcement of a
$20/month service that brings you TV channels over the internet may be
the most exciting news of CES. Sling TV doesn't quite have the robust
network lineup as Comcast, Time Warne... Read More ...
Parrot's new drone keeps its 'head' on straight
Drones
are a seemingly everywhere at CES, but senseFly's sensor-laden eXom
commercial quadcopter really caught our eye. Why's that? Well, for
starters it has a self-leveling and stabilizing err... head up front.
That cabeza packs one of five ultrason... Read More ...
Here's a closer look at Dell's super thin tablet and nearly bezel-less XPS 13
When
I invited Sam Burd, the general manager of Dell's personal computer
group, to do an interview with me at CES about the state of the PC
industry, I did so mostly because, well, Dell knows a lot about
computers. I had no idea at the time that Dell... Read More ...
This is not the 'Oculus Killer' you're looking for
It
takes a special kind of crazy to show up to the biggest consumer
electronics show on Earth, to pay for an exhibition space next to Oculus
VR and then advertise your product as an "Oculus killer." That's
exactly what 3DHead did with its "GCS3" head... Read More ...
Take a tour of Samsung's 4K-heavy CES booth
Long
before Sling TV was the talk of CES, Samsung was busy boasting about
the VCR and, later, the DVD player. Today, its presence at the world's
biggest tech show is largely focused on 4K TVs. Curved, bendable, flat
-- Samsung's UHD lineup has it all... Read More ...
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