Apple's secretive internal training program praises Picasso, has full-time faculty

The Apple University, as the company's training courses have been
called, was established by Steve Jobs in an effort to get employees
acquainted with how Apple does things. Courses there are not mandatory,
but getting employees to enroll is...
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'Tractor beam' for water can pull boats in any direction

It can be difficult to get waterborne objects to go in the right
direction -- just ask any boat captain who has had to fight waves on a
choppy sea. However, researchers at the Australian National University
have developed a "tractor beam" (really, a...
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How would you change Nokia's Lumia 520?

Like Samsung, Nokia's smartphone strategy has always been focused
around choice. Sometimes this results in products that are so very
similar that it's impossible to tell the difference. That's not an issue
with Nokia's Lumia 520, the ultra-budget...
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Disney tech auto-edits your raw footage into watchable video

More and more people are starting to record their daily lives, whether
by traditional video cams or first-person live-loggers attached to
glasses, headsets, necklaces or even handbags. Since a group of people
(say, at a party) are bound to capture...
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One of HTC's first 64-bit phones is a budget model for Sprint

Qualcomm teased us with the prospect of powerful 64-bit smartphones
arriving in late 2014 and early 2015, but it looks like you'll have to
dial back your expectations for the first wave of devices. New tipster
@upleaks has posted details and photos...
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Smart collar turns your cat into a WiFi hacking weapon

Forget Trojan horses -- it's the cats you have to worry about. Security
engineer Gene Bransfield has developed WarKitteh, a tech-laden collar
that turns feline companions into scouts for WiFi hackers. The
innocuous-looking accessory hides a Spark...
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Watch the ISEE-3 lunar flyby live, beginning at 1:30PM ET

A few months ago, the ISEE-3 Reboot Project managed to raise $160,000
to bring the spacecraft back to Earth after 36 years roaming outer
space. The team behind the campaign successfully took control of the
spacecraft and reactivated some of its...
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Inhabitat's Week in Green: Naturbad pool, Dyson's river vacuum and Legos lost at sea

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.
This week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the automaker would deliver 100,000 electric vehicles in...
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Xiaomi issues fix amid privacy scare over its cloud messaging service

Earlier this week, Finland's F-Secure looked into claims that Xiaomi
was secretly sending data from its MIUI-powered phones back to its
servers, and it turned out to be true. Despite having not added any
cloud accounts, F-Secure's brand new Redmi 1s...
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First satellite with high-resolution public imaging launches on August 13th

If you've been wondering just when a company would take advantage of
the US' relaxed rules for accurate satellite imaging, you now have a
date to mark on your calendar: Lockheed Martin has set the launch of
DigitalGlobe's high-resolution WorldView-3...
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Disney Research's latest tech will accurately 3D print your mullet

Printing in three dimensions allows for a ton of really cool (and
life-saving) stuff, but one area it apparently hasn't conquered just yet
is realistically reproducing human hair. The masterminds at Disney
Research think they have a solution for that...
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