Oussama Khatib Shu-Yun Chung have brought us the SupraPed. Khatib and Chung, researchers at Stanford, are working on a system to allow bipedal robots extra stability by giving them a pair of walking sticks. Unlike us weak humans, h...
Speck Design's clientele has ranged from Apple to Samsonite to Fisher-Price in its history, and now it can add Google to the list of high-profile companies. But Google -- or its Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP) division, to be m...
cartechboy (2660665) writes "It seems there's a new hack challenge set every week, but this time, it seems different. A challenge has been thrown down to hack a Tesla Model S with a $10,000 prize. The organizers of a computer security co...
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat : TaskRabbit pivots, launches on-demand service for cleaning, handiwork, moving, & errands — TaskRabbit just killed off its famous task bidding system for an new model: instantly bookab...
For years now, smart watches like Samsung's Gear Live have been "coming soon." Well, here they are. And it's worth thinking about what they do, and how well they do it.
Tablo.io, a publishing platform built by 21-year-old Ash Davies, has raised $400,000 from Y Combinator partner Kevin Hale and Paul Reining. The company offers a Wattpad-like self-publishing experience – albeit with a superior...
Apple talks a big game when it comes to the environment, so the company's annual report on its green efforts are always an interesting read. This year, Apple's Environmental Responsibility Report (PDF) brings news on renewable energy for...
Apple on Thursday released iTunes version 11.3 and with it announced the availability of high-definition iTunes Extras for the Mac and Apple TV, with the bonus features coming to iOS 8 after the operating system's rollout this fall.
Vlad Savov / The Verge : Samsung child labor allegations contradict recent audit — China Labor Watch uncovers a practice of hiring underage workers during periods of peak demand — The 2014 edition of ...
Remember the once-dormant ISEE-3 probe that was roused from its 27 year slumber earlier this week? Errm, turns out it's not doing so great. Despite a crowdfunding campaign that raised over $150,000 to bring it back to active duty and a r...
Kickstarter has been around long enough that the Kickstarter double-dip is now a well-established thing – basically it’s the practice of a company returning to the crowdfunding well to secure the resources for a new pro...
TechCrunch : LinkedIn Steps Up Its AI Play, Turns Its Contacts App Into A New Connected App — With 40% of LinkedIn's 300 million users accessing the social network for professionals via mobile devices, the company has ...
E-Commerce giant Amazon has made huge competitive inroads into the cloud services market with Amazon Web Services, and today it’s adding another feature that will put it into direct competition with the likes of Box and Dropb...
Rei (128717) writes As was previously reported here, the Russian government has accused the U.S. Secret Service of kidnapping the son of ultranationalist LDPR MP Valery Seleznev in the Maldives. The son, Roman Seleznev, stands accused of...
Storybook Reading uses your iPhone or iPad's camera to digitally copy a book and add your own personal narration so your children can listen to you read even when you are not around. It's an easy way to take a moment of reading and prese...
Tom Brewster / Guardian : Silent Circle takes on Skype and Viber with global, encrypted phone calls — Secure comms firm promises ‘beautiful disruption’ with its new Silent Phone calling plans, but will busi...
Imagine you’re an executive running a multi-billion dollar e-commerce business and you have figured out ways to keep customers on your site and prompt them to make purchases a couple of times a year. Now imagine if you could ...
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Malwarebytes raises $30M in Series A Funding, secures 60m users — Summary: Security firm Malwarebytes has secured $30 million in Series A funding from Highland Capital Partners. —&...
For Nick Zammuto, vinyl scratching isn't something to be done during a DJ set, but with a craft knife. That's because the musician likes to cut grooves into LPs and use the resulting jumps as the rhythm for his unique brand of electronic...
The second best false Microsoft meme is that the company will break off and sell its Xbox business. Why would it do that? It isn’t clear. It’s also not happening. At all. This morning, in a company-wide email that was a...
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Satya Nadella committed to develop its Xbox gaming platform in a letter to company employees, quashing rumors that the unit might be spun off.
Email marketing company PulseConnect is getting a new name, PostUp, while at the same time reconnecting with its roots — specifically with founder Joshua Baer, who’s joining PostUp’s board of directors. The compan...
If you're like me, you may have an older iPhone or iPod touch kicking around your desk drawer. Instead of letting that hardware sit unused, put the device into the hands of your children and use it to teach them the basics of photography...
GoDaddy is again expanding its team focused on serving the needs of small business owners with the acquisition of a smart calendaring service called Canary. The deal for Canary is more of an “acqui-hire,” than acquisiti...
Reuters : Access to Google services within China returns — (Reuters) - Users in China were able to access online services for Google Inc on Thursday, after more than a month of severe disruption that almost completely ...
When Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system project ("just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"), he aimed the announcement at users of Minix for a good reason: Minix (you can download the latest from the Min...
Brooke Crothers / CNET : PCs see surprising gain in US as global decline slows, but Apple slips — PCs are seeing surprising strength, especially in the US, according to IDC. Are some tablet models starting a slow...
Turns out I’m not the only hater in town when it comes to the “solar freakin’ roadways” project. Since I wrote that “we don’t need solar roadways, we need to unleash current solar panels,” back i...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group, the world's biggest electronics component maker, said on Thursday it will sign agreements with China's Guizhou province to research and develop big data technology and nanotechnology.
Thanks in part to the massive popularity of Apple's iPhone, over 24 million cars featuring the company's CarPlay infotainment offering could be on the road just five years after the first vehicles sporting the new system roll off of auto...
The optical drive is not something you really need much anymore in a desktop PC. Ultrabooks and anything with an Apple logo on it have ditched the drives completely. Midi and full desktop […]
Myles Udland / Business Insider : CYNK Technology, a dubious “social networking” company with no revenue, valued at $4B after 25,000% market rise in a few weeks — A ‘Social Networking’ Stock Has...
Conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp was known for his "readymades," which declared everyday objects to be works of art -- most notably "Fountain," a public urinal on a pedestal. Duchamp was also something of a chess obsessive and created bo...
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom : In the US, Chromecast and Roku sold an estimated 3.8M units each in 2013, compared to 2M Apple TVs — Roku and Chromecast go head-to-head in streaming race, Apple TV falling behind &mdas...
beaker_72 (1845996) writes The Guardian reports that the UK government has unveiled plans to introduce emergency surveillance laws into the UK parliament at the beginning of next week. These are aimed at reinforcing the powers of securit...
Binary Fortress Software has announced the release of ShellSend 2.0, the latest edition of its free tool for sending emails from the command line. The new build adds an extra parameter which specifies the email body text, rather than poi...
Spying on the German public? Not a problem. Spying on Chancellor Merkel? Kind of a problem. Turning a German intelligence employee and German army officer? It seems the German government has had enough.
Building consumer tech that interfaces with your brain sounds a bit like science fiction, but touch and voice commands used to be thought of in the same way and look at their capabilities […]
Analysts predicting Apple will beat its Q3 guidance of $36-38B (9to5 Mac) Analysts say lots of things. But this particular analyst, Horace Dediu, is so far above the cut of those normally called "analysts" that it feels more accurate to ...
A new update to Google's camera app allows users to trigger the camera on their phone on a Google Wear smartwatch.
AWS takes on Google Drive, Box, Dropbox with Zocalo document sharing and collaboration service.
Turns out I’m not the only hater in town when it comes to the “solar freakin’ roadways” project. Since I wrote that “we don’t need solar roadways, we need to unleash current solar panels,” back i...
Binary Fortress Software has announced the release of ShellSend 2.0, the latest edition of its free tool for sending emails from the command line. The new build adds an extra parameter which specifies the email body text, rather than poi...
Spying on the German public? Not a problem. Spying on Chancellor Merkel? Kind of a problem. Turning a German intelligence employee and German army officer? It seems the German government has had enough.
