Logitech remotes can turn down Hue lights before movie night
Logitech's
Harmony remote just got considerably more useful when you're setting
the mood for a movie. A recent hub firmware update (available through
the Android and iOS apps) for its Smart Control and Ultimate remotes
lets you adjust Philips' Hue li... Read More ...
Facebook: If your feed is an echo chamber, you need more friends
Facebook
wants you to know that you've only got yourself to blame for the lack
of diversity in views on your News Feed. The social network has recently
conducted a study to find out why people mostly see posts that mirror
their own beliefs and to fin... Read More ...
The Rockstar Editor is coming to 'GTA V' on consoles after all
Apparently
"exclusive" doesn't mean what it used to anymore. Rockstar Games
recently revealed that its eponymous video editing toolset is coming to
the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Grand Theft Auto V in a
recent question and answer session ... Read More ...
Daily Roundup: LG G4 review, Nintendo makes money again and more!
In
today's Daily Roundup you'll find our review of the new LG G4, read all
about how Nintendo is making money again and get a sneak peek at the
new controller for Guitar Hero Live. Get the details on these stories
and more past the break.... Read More ...
Electronic mini-city comments on the dangers of surveillance
Nervous
about the rise of a surveillance culture, where both companies and
governments seem hell-bent on knowing everything they possibly can about
you? So is British artist Stanza, who found a clever way of expressing
that anxiety about always-watch... Read More ...
Google finds a way to make ordering delivery food even lazier
You
know the delivery drill. When you're feeling peckish, the first thing
you do is search for open restaurants in your area, but then you have to
close search, open a separate food delivery app, find the restaurant
again there, and finally place you... Read More ...
HDHomeRun Kickstarter wants to build the perfect DVR for you
Now
that Microsoft has announced it's through with Windows Media Center,
what options do you have left to build your own machine for recording,
organizing and watching TV? A new one ready to enter the scene is
SiliconDust's HDHomeRun DVR, which recen... Read More ...
Keurig revives refillable K-Cups following disappointing sales
Following
its first disappointing holiday sales numbers since its coffee machines
hit shelves, Keurig will bring back refillable K-Cups. So far, the
Keurig 2.0 machines haven't taken off like the company thought they
would, partially because new brew... Read More ...
NYT: Uber bids $3 billion for Nokia's Here maps
Uber
wants to buy another mapping technology: Nokia's Here, and it's bid $3
billion for it according to The New York Times. Who else wants in on the
action? Apparently a handful of German car manufacturers including
Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz, and C... Read More ...
Los Angeles is hiring an advisor for ridesharing and robotic cars
Los
Angeles might be opening up to next-generation transportation between
its loosening stance on ridesharing and its deal with Waze, but it's
still looking for someone who can shed more light on the subject. Mayor
Eric Garcetti has revealed that the... Read More ...
A close look at the new, yet familiar guitar in 'Guitar Hero Live'
Tim
Dunn and Nate Coppard are on a mission to rewire your brain. They're
respectively the senior producer and senior designer behind Guitar Hero
Live's new six-button guitar, and while neurological change is not their
direct goal, it's a side effect ... Read More ...
'Matrix' directors' Netflix show 'Sense8' looks like a crazy head trip
If
you're all out of Daredevil, there's another geeky show coming to
Netflix soon: Sense8, a new sci-fi series from the Wachowskis and
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski. We've been excited about the
project since it was announced, but now we'v... Read More ...
'SimCity' creator Will Wright launches social networking app
Will
Wright, creator of the incredibly popular SimCity, Sims and the
slightly less popular Spore franchises, is back with something new and
completely different, a social networking app. The Thred app for iOS is a
slideshow builder with options to ad... Read More ...
Arms control and free speech go to court over 3D-printed guns
Cody
Wilson fundamentally altered the way we produce and distribute firearms
in 2013 when his company, Defense Distributed (DD), first published the
plans for a 3D-printed pistol, dubbed The Liberator, on its website.
The State Department didn't take... Read More ...
LG is making a smaller, stripped-down version of its G4 phone
You
didn't think that LG would reserve its latest design language just for
the G4, did you? Sure enough, WinFuture claims to have leaked details of
the G4c, a 5-inch budget counterpart to the G4 flagship. In many ways,
it appears to be a straight-up ... Read More ...
JXE Streams: Klei indoctrinates us into 'Invisible, Inc.'
Klei
Entertainment has been building up its bonafides since 2010, pumping
out a steady stream of deeply cool two-dimensional games. Shank had the
old-fashioned action, Mark of the Ninja blended that action with stealth
and Don't Starve took the world... Read More ...
Carl Sagan's solar-powered spacecraft is getting its first test flight
Legendary
astronomer Carl Sagan once envisioned a solar sailer, a spaceship that
uses sunlight radiation to push itself through the solar system much
like a boat relies on the wind. Decades later, his project is about to
become a practical reality. T... Read More ...
Flickr builds powerful photo search engine in major redesign
Flickr
unveiled an impressive new search function today that aims to make
digging through the site's 10 billion or so photos far less of a chore.
The unified search results page now includes sections for your own
photostream as well as those of peopl... Read More ...
Earth's ozone improves while CO2 levels worsen
Good
news: the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking. Bad news: worldwide
levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached another terrifying
milestone. First up, NASA's Goddard Space Center is promoting a
scientific paper from December that claims th... Read More ...
Lyft's deal with Verizon gives drivers a break on phone service
Lyft
isn't going to let Uber's partnership with AT&T go unanswered.
The ridesharing outlet has unveiled a team-up with Verizon that not only
pre-loads Lyft's app on some of Verizon's Android phones, but gives
Lyft drivers a discount on their cellphon... Read More ...
AT&T won't always throttle your unlimited LTE data
While
AT&T has limited its throttling for unlimited 3G data to
clogged-up networks, it hasn't been so kind to the LTE crowd. Go past
5GB of usage in a month and your high-speed connection would always slow
down, no matter how empty the cell towers mi... Read More ...
Spotify wants to get into online video
Spotify
is virtually synonymous with streaming music, but it may be poised to
shake things up in the near future. Wall Street Journal sources claim
that the company is planning to launch a web video service. It's not
certain exactly what the focus wo... Read More ...
'Avengers: Infinity War' will be filmed with IMAX cameras only
The
final planned Avengers films, Avengers: Infinity War - Parts 1
& 2, will be the first movies ever to be shot exclusively with
IMAX cameras, Variety reports. First, directors Anthony and Joe Russo
will try out a new, lighter 2D digital camera from... Read More ...
Wordpress vulnerability leaves millions of sites open to attack
If
you've got a Wordpress site, pay attention: A recently discovered
vulnerability within the blogging platform leaves your site open to
attack, according to the security firm Sucuri. So far, it affects the
TwentyFifteen theme (installed by default) ... Read More ...
LG G4 review: refined, but not game-changing
When
LG cooked up last year's G3, we (and many of our contemporaries) fell
in love with it. At last, a well-designed phone with a killer Quad HD
screen and a custom interface that didn't make us want to wrap a USB
cord around our necks! Building a be... Read More ...
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