Dropbox will soon show all your cloud-based files right in the desktop
If
you're one of the 500 million people who've used Dropbox at some point
over the last few years, you know what you're getting in to. It's a
reliable way to back up all the files on your computer, sync them across
multiple devices and share them wit... Read More ...
Former 'Top Gear' hosts plan DriveTribe motoring community
With
an Amazon series well underway, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard
Hammond are turning their attention to other projects. As Variety
reports, they've teamed up with entrepreneur Ernesto Shcmitt and Top
Gear executive producer Andy Wilman to... Read More ...
Nokia will buy Withings for $191 million
Nokia
has announced that it's going to buy Withings for €170 million ($191
million). The French health and wearables company will become a division
of Nokia Technologies, home to the Ozo Camera and N1 Tablet. It's
another step towards Nokia's re... Read More ...
Esports league bans porn site-sponsored team
Today
I learned that porn site YouPorn has its own eSports team.
Unfortunately for the site, I also learned that the Electronic Sports
League (ESL) has decided that Team YP can't compete in its eSport
events, which include Street Fighter 5, Counter S... Read More ...
Logitech's Harmony app brings smart home control to Android TV
Logitech's
ill-fated Revue was one of the first devices with Google TV -- how
could we forget that ad campaign -- and now it's back in the fold with
an Android TV app. Compatible with hub-based Harmony remotes, it brings
control of Harmony Activities... Read More ...
AI will frag each other with rocket launchers in 'Doom'
An
AI learning to walk through a Doom-inspired maze by sight is one thing,
but how can it handle live multiplayer mayhem? That's what the "Visual
Doom AI" competition this September hopes to discover. The first set of
matches are limited to a dozen 1... Read More ...
US government wants cyber forces that think like the enemy
Lawmakers
want mandatory training for US military cybersecurity to act as the
enemy in war games tailored to test the country's cyber defenses. The
suggestion was included in a recent defense bill. To ensure attacks
aren't confused with real (well, c... Read More ...
'VR LAN party' software launches for free on Thursday
Darshan
Shankar has been working on bringing computer screens into a VR
environment for two years, and on Thursday his BigScreen software will
launch on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Beta testers have been
using it for a couple of months, b... Read More ...
BMW's EV tech is being used to resurrect the Karma
Saying
that luxury electric-vehicle manufacturer Fisker was beleaguered before
its demise a few years back would be a gross understatement. But
despite the cars self-immolating and Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticizing
everything but the Karma's design, a... Read More ...
EU invests 1 billion Euros to make quantum computing practical
The
European Union doesn't want to simply wait around while scientists
figure out the fundamentals of quantum computing; it's giving the
concept a big financial boost, too. The European Commission has
revealed plans for a €1 billion ($1.13 bill... Read More ...
What's on your HDTV: 'Penny Dreadful,' 'Limitless'
This
weekend the NFL Draft will spread across our TVs for three days, along
with the continuing NBA and NHL playoffs. Of course, Game of Thrones is
back, but on Showtime we also have the excellent Penny Dreadful back for
another season (watch the pre... Read More ...
FreshTeam is a messaging app that tracks employee locations
Traveling
salespeople of yore could get away with plenty because, hey, who was
ever gonna find out? These days, there's a smartphone in your pocket and
a boss at the other end of the internet expecting an answer. That's
where FreshTeam comes in, whic... Read More ...
MakerBot will start outsourcing its 3D printers
Less
than a year after opening its 170,000-square-foot factory in New York
City, MakerBot announced today it will partner with international
manufacturer Jabil to produce its 3D printers moving forward. Over the
next few months, the company will lay... Read More ...
The Apple Watch, one year on
One
year ago Apple finally decided to get into the smartwatch game. Nobody
was surprised that it happened, but the reaction it inspired has caught a
few off guard. Some were shocked that it failed to explode on the scene
with the same ferocity as the... Read More ...
Gmail on Android is ready for your Exchange account
Gmail
threw the doors open when it added support for non-Google email
accounts, but there was one glaring omission: you couldn't get Microsoft
Exchange support on all devices. Not consistently, anyway. What if you
want to get your work email without... Read More ...
Comcast isn't letting customers use Starz's video service
Comcast
isn't exactly known for playing nicely with outside video services
(just ask Roku owners), and that trend isn't letting up anytime soon.
Multichannel News notes that the cable giant isn't letting its
subscribers authenticate with the TV Every... Read More ...
UF researchers let people race drones using their minds
As
drone racing gets faster, cheaper and more mainstream, it was only a
matter of time before drone pilots ditched the controller and made the
leap to an actual brain-computer interface, as these researchers from
the University of Florida did last we... Read More ...
HTC Vive companion app now available for iOS users
If
you're an HTC Vive owner with an iPhone instead of an Android device,
you won't have to feel left out of the phone integration game anymore.
The iOS version of the HTC Vive companion is now up for grabs on the App
Store. Read More ...
WSJ: Facebook working on dedicated camera and live video app
Does
Facebook have a sharing problem? If it does, the social network is
considering ways to increase the amount of stuff you post, especially
pictures and videos. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mark
Zuckerberg & Co. are working on a standal... Read More ...
It's official: Charter owns Time Warner Cable
Charter
Communications purchased Time Warner Cable in a deal estimated at $78
billion, and today the US Department of Justice and Federal
Communications Commission gave the acquisition the green light. The
companies agreed to the deal in May 2015, wh... Read More ...
'1666 Amsterdam' is back in 'Assassin's Creed' creator's hands
Ubisoft
and Patrice Désilets, the creative director of Assassin's Creed and
Assassin's Creed 2, have reached an agreement that gives Désilets
ownership of a mysterious original IP, 1666 Amsterdam. Désilets and
Ubisoft have a rock... Read More ...
Twitter lets you flag multiple abusive tweets in one report
Twitter
has been continually improving the process for reporting abuse on the
social channel, including simplifying the process a while back. The
company is rolling out an update to the web, iOS and Android apps that
will allow you to attach multiple... Read More ...
Creepy co-op game 'Push Me Pull You' comes to PS4 on May 3rd
Australian
indie game developer House House announced on Monday that its highly
anticipated (and cringe-inducing) sports game, Push Me Pull You, is
finally being released for the PlayStation 4 on May 3rd. The game pits
two pairs of opposing players i... Read More ...
Pope to teens: you cannot download happiness
During
a special teens-only Jubilee at the Vatican this weekend, Pope Francis
delivered a strong homily about the power of religion versus technology.
"Your happiness has no price," the pontiff told an estimated crowd of
70,000 teenagers gathered in... Read More ...
The creators of 'Doom' and 'Quake' reveal a new sci-fi shooter
John
Romero and Adrian Carmack helped found id Software in 1991, and by 1993
the studio had changed the video game world forever. That's when id
released Doom, a genre-defining first-person shooter, and it was
followed by Quake, another classic FPS,... Read More ...
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After
months of delays and days of flying, Solar Impulse 2 has finished
crossing the Pacific. The sunlight-powered aircraft arrived in San
Francisco Bay on the night of April 23rd, with an expected touchdown at
Moffett Field (as of this writing) aro... 
NASA
is big on solar electric propulsion (the Dawn spacecraft uses it, for
instance) for a good reason: while the engines aren't powerful, they
supply thrust for a very long time before giving up the ghost. And it
now looks like the agency is ready t... 
Intel's
bid to promote company diversity is running into opposition... and some
of it is particularly vicious. CEO Brian Krzanich told guests at a
technology conference that it has received some hostility, including a
"bit of a backlash" from within... 
Birds
can navigate both urban and real jungles with ease even when they're
facing moderately turbulent winds. If they could speak, we'd have
already asked their secret. But since they can't, the Stanford School of
Engineering built one of the most ad... 
Thanks
in part to leaks, it's no secret that the National Security Agency's
foreign intelligence gathering also covers some Americans. But just
how many Americans are under watch, and how many are simply innocents
caught in the crossfire? Congress... 
When
Rust creator Garry Newman introduced female character models to the
open world survival game, he said the idea was rooted in a social
experiment: He wanted to see if lady characters would be attacked more
or less because players might perceive t... 
Even
a tech giant like Facebook isn't immune to significant security
breaches. Devcore's Orange Tsai recently discovered that someone had
installed a backdoor on one of Facebook's corporate servers (that is,
not the social network itself) in a bid t... 
Known
for chic, artisanal digital products like a $190 walnut keyboard,
French company Orée is going after the creative set with the Stylograph.
Fabricated from pure copper, the ink stylus lets you transcribe your
scribblings from paper over t... 
Roku
has seemingly done the impossible with its latest Streaming Stick. It's
smaller than the previous 2014-era version, it packs in a faster
quad-core CPU and it's still just $50. The speed improvements, in
particular, are a welcome change because t... 
By Cat DiStasio
Developer
Mojang might be best known for wildly popular and influential
Minecraft, but it's no one-trick pony. Which brings us to Crown
& Council, the studio's latest that, from the sounds of it, is a
fast-paced strategy game in the vein of Risk... 
CERN
will keep you researchers, students and dataphiles busy this weekend.
The institute has released 300 terabytes of Large Hadron Collider data
collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector back in 2011. You
know how scientists use the coll... 
Apple's
laying the law down: Watch apps must operate without an iPhone nearby.
In a blog post, the company mandates that anything submitted for App
Store approval from this June 1st forward has to be a native app running
watchOS 2. This should be a b... 
The
Department of Justice will no longer go after Apple in court in an
effort to compel the company to unlock an iPhone related to a Brooklyn
drug case. According to the court document US Attorney Robert Capers
submitted (and obtained by Apple Inside... 
People
who live in countries with a strict nationwide internet filter always
come up with ways to get around it. In Iran, according to Wired, people
are using satellite TV and a free anti-censorship system called Toosheh.
While Iranians do use VPN to... 
There's
a chance Tekken X Street Fighter will never see the light of day. Or it
could, but not anytime soon. In a recent interview with GameSpot,
Tekken's game director Katsuhiro Harada revealed that development for
the highly anticipated crossover i... 
Researchers
looking for a better way to secure their face computers have come up
with a novel solution for hands-free, head-mounted password entry. A
device could potentially identify its wearer by emitting an ultrasonic
hum through their skull and l... 
It's
a bad idea to text and drive. Beyond just being dangerous, it's now
illegal in most US states and in several countries around the world.
Yet, despite the many ad campaigns telling them it's wrong, people still
do it. In fact, some of them actual... 
Sure,
smartphone fingerprint scanners like Apple's Touch ID and Google's
Nexus Imprint help keep your phone more secure. But they also make it
easier to log into various apps or make purchases without having to type
an unwieldy password into your pho... 
Even
if you haven't played it yet, one thing is clear about No Man's Sky:
It's stunning. The entire game hinges on the idea of procedural
generation on a massive scale, meaning when artists at Hello Games
create a patch of grass or a fluffy animal ta... 
Most
of us know how we can be friendlier to the environment: We can drive
less, recycle more and bring tote bags to the grocery store. But what
most people don't realize is that we can make green choices when it
comes to consumer electronics too. Tha... 
On
Sunday, 60 Minutes took a year-old segment on phone hacking it shot and
aired in Australia, fluffed it up with other old hacks from last year's
Def Con and repackaged it for an American audience.