Google's Project Vault secures your devices with a microSD card
Hackers
are getting more brazen and passwords are becoming huge of a pain as we
keep signing up for services. Password managers help ease the pain of
dealing with security over multiple sites and services, but for the most
part, our computing lives a... Read More ...
Panasonic's Lumix G7 is a small camera with serious 4K chops
Panasonic
has been a huge proponent of 4K-ready cameras, starting with the Lumix
GH4 and LX100. A few days ago, the Lumix G7 joined that group. The
recently introduced Micro Four Thirds camera features a 16-megapixel
Digital Live MOS sensor, an ISO r... Read More ...
Google and Qualcomm squeezed Project Tango tech into a smartphone
It
seems like a decent of chunk of Google's big news today deals with its
partnerships. The search giant is already teaming up with Levi's to
explore the realm of smart Jacquard clothes, and now Google has
confirmed that it's been working with Qualco... Read More ...
Google's Project Soli to bring gesture control to wearables
Gesture-based
system are usually attached to video game consoles like the Microsoft
Kinect or your computer like the Leap Motion. Google's ATAP team figured
that the smaller form factor of the smartwatch segment needed its own
finger-waving way to co... Read More ...
Path's social apps get sold to the company behind KakaoTalk
Remember
Path, the social network for keeping in touch with your closest friends
and family? Unless you live in Indonesia, probably not. And that's part
of the reason why it ended selling its social networking apps to Daum
Kakao, the Korean parent co... Read More ...
Weaponizing code: America's quest to control the exploit market
When
the US Bureau of Industry and Security published how it plans to
implement the sections on hacking technologies in a global weapons trade
pact called the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) last week, it ignited an
online firestorm of meltdowns, freakout... Read More ...
Google's first partner for smart, sensor-laden clothes is Levi's
Remember
when we said yesterday that Google's Project Jacquard would lead to the
advent of touch-friendly pants? Well, we were more right than we
thought: During the Google ATAP address here at Google I/O 2015,
Technical Program Lead Ivan Poupyrev co... Read More ...
These seven climate science projects could save the world
The
human race is doomed, and it's all our own fault. With the quantity of
carbon in our atmosphere now well beyond the safe limit, it's almost
certain the planet's temperature will continue to rise. Climate change
is causing natural disasters of bib... Read More ...
Turn Instagram food posts into meals with recipe app Handpick
Handpick,
a recipe app that helps users craft meals using ingredients they have
on-hand, now scours the filtered seas of Instagram for delicious-looking
dishes and their accompanying recipes. This means the next time you're
searching (or drooling) th... Read More ...
The best kitchen scale
This
post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a list of the best
gear for your home. Read the full article at TheSweethome.comIf you need an all-purpose digital kitchen scale for baking, cooking by ratio, or even measuring beans to brew cof...
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A look at two alternatives to those $200 Beats headphones
Thanks
to Beats, there's no shortage of $200 headphones on the market. But
what about cans coming from folks known for their speakers rather than
their rhymes? Given their heritage in the audio space, I had high hopes
for both the Klipsch Reference O... Read More ...
The producer of 'Splatoon' on how to make a Nintendo original
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Apple offers a quick workaround for nasty iOS messaging bug
We
already know Apple is working on a fix for a recently discovered
texting bug that can render your Messages app useless (and in some cases
even reboot your phone), but now there's a faster solution for anyone
affected. You just need to use Siri to ... Read More ...
Facebook supports GIFs, so go knock yourself out
It's
hard to believe, but that bastion of instant gratification, Facebook,
has never supported GIFs (except via a kludge). But that appears to be
fixed and you can now express your joy or add some comedy to posts on
the social network. You just need ... Read More ...
A fight is brewing over ads in the 'open-source Photoshop'
Far
from just being that character in Pulp Fiction, GIMP is also an
open-source alternative to Photoshop that's given away freely for all to
use. Unfortunately, there's been a kerfuffle between the project's
creators and SourceForge, one of the place... Read More ...
Hyperloop might be 'free to play'
We're
all expecting to pay through the nose to travel between LA and SF in
just 30 minutes, but the minds behind Hyperloop may have a surprise up
their sleeve. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies' Dirk Ahlborn has
told CNBC that he's considering a ... Read More ...
'Amnesiac' mice made to remember what they forgot with blue light
Mice
with amnesia were able to recover training memories with assistance
from blue light, in research that suggests that memories lost in brain
trauma could still exist (and perhaps even be recalled) from the human
brain. It marks the first time scie... Read More ...
YouTube montage celebrates 10 years of wasting your time
From
screaming goats to Russian meteorites, YouTube has been making us
unproductive since 2005. What better way to celebrate than with an artsy
montage (below) featuring categories like "fails," "memes," and
"animals" from YouTube's own Spotlight cha... Read More ...
Skeegle is like Meerkat or Periscope, but for private groups
Broadcasting
live video from your smartphone has quickly become all the rage. The
most popular enablers of this craze are Meerkat and Periscope, both of
which aim to create a global community of streamers and voyeurs that
find each other's feeds thro... Read More ...
IRS blames Russia for '$50 million' hack
Remember
when the IRS website was hacked and around 100,000 people had their tax
data stolen? Officials are now pointing accusatory fingers in the
direction of Russia, at least according to CNN. The revelation was made
by Illinois Representative Pete... Read More ...
Asteroid mining might compromise telecom and defense satellites
Asteroid
mining might provide a lot of jobs and new sources of gold, titanium,
platinum and other metals, as well as hydrogen and ammonia in the
future. But it could also spell disaster for telecom satellites orbiting
the Earth if it's not managed pr... Read More ...
Lenovo's Windows 10 devices will get unique Cortana features
Microsoft's
chatty Cortana is one of the more well-liked parts of Windows Phone,
and Lenovo is making it more versatile on its own PCs with ReachIt. It
exploits the voice assistant to find your own photos, documents and
email across multiple Lenovo W... Read More ...
Website writes up notes for you using Instagram font
Kidnappers
who send out ransom notes made of magazine cutouts are so old school.
Any self-respecting, tech-savvy abductor who finds ordinary fonts boring
would use Type To Design's Instagram font generator instead. It's
pretty easy to use, too. You j... Read More ...
Uber's driver app now serves the hearing impaired
More
often than not, most features released by Uber are designed for its
customers, not drivers. Today, though, the ridesharing firm is making
some changes to help a specific group of people behind the wheel: those
who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Th... Read More ...
Oh no: MIT's Cheetah robot can jump over hurdles while running
MIT's
scientists spent years making the Cheetah robot a more efficient
runner. Now that's done, its creators probably thought it was time to
give it a major upgrade: the metal quadruped can now autonomously jump
over hurdles like a trained horse. Yes... Read More ...
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