TechBrief: Today's Top Technology News & Stories - June 29
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Last week, we reviewed a variety of hardware and accessories that'll complement your favorite iOS or OS X devices. Here's a quick roundup of recent hardware reviews that you may have missed: Benchmarking LaCie's speedy Rugged USB 3.0 Thu...
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This week, we went hands-on with Google's Android L developer preview and Android wear, watched the US Supreme Court rule against Aereo, learned how to escape the clutches of the internet and more! Read on for Engadget's news highlights ...
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This week, we went hands-on with Google's Android L developer preview and Android wear, watched the US Supreme Court rule against Aereo, learned how to escape the clutches of the internet and more! Read on for Engadget's news h...
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Worried about getting mugged for your gold 64GB iPhone 5S? This Japanese-made isopod case should calm your nerves and keep thieves away. A silver version will cost you $80 and a gold version will cost you $120, but you better act soon. T...
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Karissa Bell / Mashable : Soundhawk Launches App-Enabled Wearable to Enhance Hearing — Many health-centric wearables focus on tracking your daily activities— whether it's steps taken, calories consumed or hours o...
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If you've previously paid for goods with Bitcoin or other digital currency in California, you're technically a criminal -- the state has long had a law requiring US dollars, even if it hasn't been enforced. As of this weekend, though, yo...
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If you've previously paid for goods with Bitcoin or other digital currency in California, you're technically a criminal -- the state has long had a law requiring US dollars, even if it hasn't been enforced. As of this week...
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Last week was a busy one with your favorite TUAW writers posting some excellent How-To guides, commentary and other useful articles. Here's a quick roundup of our recent feature worthy posts you may have missed: Mac 101: Use built-in OS ...
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mikejuk (1801200) writes Due to its importance in the history of computing the UK's Computer Conservation Society, embarked on a 4-year project to build a replica of EDSAC. The main challenge facing the team of volunteers who are working...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nervous Brazilian soccer fans took to Twitter to breathe a collective sigh of relief as the final, tension-filled moments of a penalty shootout against Chile broke an all-time record for online buzz during a live ev...
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The Morbid Anatomy Museum started as a blog in 2007 by Joanna Ebenstein, an artist and historian of the weird. Ebenstein and her associates began cataloguing odd relics, toys, medical curiosities, and other offbeat items of interest in t...
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Tim Rogers / D Magazine : Woot founder Matt Rutledge is self-funding a new company called A Mediocre Corporation to conduct e-commerce experiments — This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You — ...
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Jim needs to have his knee replaced. He is a 52-year-old former long-distance runner who has recently picked up on CrossFit and often wears a Fitbit. To schedule the surgery, he goes online and coordinates his family's calendar with the ...
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Mars 'flying saucer' vehicle splashes down after NASA test in Earth's atmosphere
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One of the most common questions members of the public ask space educators is, “why does the moon change shape?” The answer is, of course, that our planet’s natural satellite does not change shape; it is always a sphere...
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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. How do you balance the necessity of highly secure passwords with the utility of easily recalling them all? It’s a question I mull each and every time a security breach happens. When the H...
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Google’s design work was center stage at I/O this year, from the keynote through sessions and things being demoed on the show floor. The changes run across Google’s range of devices and platforms, and embrace a new set ...
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Here are some of the best free apps, app updates and new apps that have landed in the App Store recently. All app prices are USD and subject to change. Some deals may expire quickly, so grab them while you can. Apps Now Free Solar Walk [...
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If you've wanted the NSA and anti-spying campaigners to sit down and hash things out, you're about to get your wish... well, sort of. MSNBC is holding a surveillance-themed debate between former NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander and ACLU Exe...
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If you've wanted the NSA and anti-spying campaigners to sit down and hash things out, you're about to get your wish... well, sort of. MSNBC is holding a surveillance-themed debate between former NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander an...
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Almost exactly one year ago, the state of California told The Bitcoin Foundation to stop trading or face hefty fines. Today, Reuters is reporting that California governor Jerry Brown has passed a bill that effectively reverses the state&...
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MojoKid (1002251) writes LG is probably getting a little tired of scraping for brand recognition versus big names like Samsung, Apple and Google. However, the company is also taking solace in the fact that their smartphone sales figures ...
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Seth Rosenblatt / CNET : Google Now gains the ability to switch between languages on the fly — ¿Que pasa? Google Now adds true multi-language support — Google's personal assistant can und...
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There's nothing stupid about the cuckoo bird. It's a nasty cheat that sometimes leaves its eggs in another bird's nest so someone else can raise its chicks, and it is one of nature's best performers of trickery and deceit, but it's defin...
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Extortionists are going completely anonymous thanks to social media and bitcoin. Brian Krebs just posted on a number of pizzerias that received anonymous letters asking for one bitcoin in order to keep the owners from receiving bad...
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It's still pretty difficult for a college student to get by using an iPad as a primary computer. Upcoming changes to iOS 8, however, could lighten the load.
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(Reuters) - U.S. data storage specialist NetApp could return to $50 a share in the coming year on solid cash flows and signs its revenues might grow again, Barron's said in its latest edition published on Sunday. Its cash flow after subt...
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(Reuters) - U.S. data storage specialist NetApp could return to $50 a share in the coming year on solid cash flows and signs its revenues might grow again, Barron's said in its latest edition published on Sunday.
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Ina Fried / Re/code : Inside the Google World Cup War Room (Video) — As the U.S. came close to tying the match with Germany in the final minute of stoppage time at the World Cup, shouts were heard in bars, living rooms...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nervous Brazilian soccer fans took to Twitter to breathe a collective sigh of relief Saturday, with the final, tense-filled minute of a penalty shootout against Chile generating more buzz online than Super Bowl.
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A few days ago at its I/O developer conference, Google quietly announced that it is working on bringing its Dart programming language to App Engine soon. This implementation will use the company’s recently launched managed vi...
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Microsoft has always taken a fairly simple approach to app management on Windows Phone, avoiding folder interfaces that iOS and Android have adopted with the company’s "Metro-style" interface. A now removed support article over...
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Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "The cybersecurity bill making its way through the Senate right now is so broad that it could allow ISPs to classify Netflix as a "cyber threat," which would allow them to throttle the streaming service's d...
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System : Quickoffice apps to be discontinued following integration into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — QuickOffice Will Be Discontinued — 2 years ago, Google bought Qu...
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Alex Dobuzinskis / Reuters : California governor signs bill to bring bitcoin and other currency into fold — (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a bill that clears away possible state...
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Los Angeles residents were pretty stoked when the Kings beat the Rangers to win the 2014 Stanley Cup. Heck, even the mayor went on TV to raise a pint and swear in celebration. […]
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NASA to launch satellite to track global warming after 2009 failure
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Sci-News.com is reporting that astronomers at the University of New South Wales have discovered an Earth-like planet just 16 light-years away. Gliese 832c has an orbital period of about 35 days, and a mass more than five times that of Ea...
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The Obama Administration's expected choice to lead the Patent Office is a Johnson & Johnson lawyer who has been a key figure in blocking attempts to reform the patent system.
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When Android Wear, Android Auto and Android TV launch this fall, they'll solve a problem that has plagued Android since day one: an inconsistent user experience across devices. Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham points out that unlike Andr...
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After several weather delays, NASA will try to launch a "flying saucer" into Earth's atmosphere Saturday to test technology that could be used to land on Mars.
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Sebastian Deterding / Tumbling Conduct : Frame Clashes, or: Why the Facebook Emotion Experiment Stirs Such Emotion — The PNAS article “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social net...
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This week in cloud: Google and Twitter unleash new data analytic systems, NASA comes up with a cloud-related contest and Gigaom speaks to Docker's Ben Golub.
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Facebook practically created the casual gaming boom that began with hyper-addictive games like FarmVille. However, the world’s largest social network increasingly seems to be happy to avoid a second-coming for casual gaming on mobile in ...
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You'd better get used to the interfaces you saw for Android Auto, Wear and TV at the Google I/O conference this past week -- you're going to be seeing them a lot. Google tells Ars Technica that it will maintain sole (official) control ov...
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You'd better get used to the interfaces you saw for Android Auto, Wear and TV at the Google I/O conference this past week -- you're going to be seeing them a lot. Google tells Ars Technica that it will maintain sole (official) ...
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Last week at Google I/O, the company introduced Cardboard, its cheap-and-cheerful (it's made of cardboard, after all) approach to nearly instant VR viewing. It's no Oculus Rift — lacking the Rift's connection to a powerful backend ...
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A newly published paper reveals that scientists at Facebook conducted a massive psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of users by tweaking their feeds and measuring how they felt afterward. In other words, Facebook decided to...
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Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch : Documentary about Aaron Swartz, “The Internet's Own Boy”, now playing in theaters and online — Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever — Aar...
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When billionaire engineer and aviator Howard Hughes died at age 70 without leaving a will, authorities were left to distribute his estate amongst 22 cousins and a variety of people and institutions Hughes barely knew. But what if there w...
