Technology News
The BeagleBone Black Is A New Single-Board Computer That Can Brew Beer
TechCrunch - 24 Apr 2013 01:18
While the Raspberry Pi is great for educating kids about computing, can it brew a mean beer? The BeagleBone Black can. Trevor Hubbard, an engineer at Texas Instruments, uses the new, next-gen board to control heat exchan...
Facts About Argon
Live Science - 24 Apr 2013 23:45
Properties, sources and uses of the element argon.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Review
Ubergizmo - 24 Apr 2013 06:01
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has arrived to America, and if you have been eagerly waiting to know how it feels to use the Galaxy S4 in the real world, the wait is over. Since its predecessor sold more than 50M units worldwide, ...
For the First Time Ever, You Can Now Hear What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like
The Atlantic - 24 Apr 2013 23:17
Listen to the voice of the man who brought our modern age of long-distance communication into being.
Panasonic announces Lumix DMC-LF1 Wi-Fi-enabled enthusiast compact
DP Review - 24 Apr 2013 02:00
Panasonic has announced the Lumix DMC-LF1, the first in a new line of Raw-shooting enthusiast compacts. The LF1 marries the sensor from the LX7 to a longer, slower lens and adds an electronic viewfinder. The camera combi...
Another blow for Flash as Unity gaming engine ends support
The Register - 24 Apr 2013 23:53
Says Adobe 'eroded developers' trust' Unity Technologies has announced that it has dropped support for Adobe Flash from its cross-platform Unity game development toolset, citing the declining popularity of the technology...
WindsorNot: the 4-inch WebOS smartphone that never saw the light of day
Engadget - 24 Apr 2013 23:49
The downfall of WebOS left more than a few canceled devices in its wake, but the most illusive of the bunch tends to be the WindsorNot: a touch-only smartphone. We've seen hints of it here and there, but the shy little d...
Google reportedly acquires natural language processing startup Wavii
Engadget - 24 Apr 2013 00:52
Word that Google has snapped up natural language processing startup Wavii first came from TechCrunch, and now the Wall Street Journal is chiming in with its own sources claiming the deal has in fact been struck, and that...
Apple prepares for iTunes' tenth anniversary with timeline of how it changed music industry
The Verge - 24 Apr 2013 16:04
iTunes, love it or hate it, changed the music industry, and its tenth anniversary is something to take note of. On April 28th, 2003, Steve Jobs revealed the digital music store -- and its 99 cent song downloads -- alongs...
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Deliveries To Resume In May
Ubergizmo - 24 Apr 2013 23:54
We've covered the whole Boeing 787 Dreamliner saga here. The jet was grounded earlier this year after its faulty battery system caused emergency landing of one flight and filling up of smoke in another. Since then Boeing...
Afghanistan Gets An Apple-ish Store
Ubergizmo - 24 Apr 2013 23:26
China is known for its knockoffs, but I'm not talking about fake Rolex wristwatches or Ray Ban shades, I'm talking about fake Apple Stores. Obviously they're not the real deal, but they come strikingly close to reality. ...
S'pore govt orders SingTel to share EPL broadcast
ZDNet - 24 Apr 2013 22:05
Singapore's content regulator MDA has instructed SingTel to share the next three seasons of the English Premier League with pay TV rival, StarHub. The decision brings an end to a long-drawn saga which had put the country...
The Best Browser Extensions that Protect Your Privacy
Life Hacker - 24 Apr 2013 17:00
There are a ton of browser extensions that promise to protect your privacy, which leads to some natural questions: Which is the best? Do they all do the same thing? What should I really download? In this guide, we're goi...
Samsung Galaxy S4: The Phone So Complicated, It Has An 'Easy' Mode
ReadWrite - 24 Apr 2013 06:01
Samsung has packed its Galaxy S4 with dozens of new features. If you happen to know nothing about smartphones, it's probably not the smartphone for you. But that leaves poor Samsung in a quandary. If its most popular sma...
Supercharge Your Command Line's History Search with Four Lines of Code
Life Hacker - 24 Apr 2013 01:00
OS X and Linux: Pressing the up and down arrow lets you step through your history in the command line, but sometimes it can take awhile to get your way to the command you want. Jude Robinson, posting on Coder Wall, share...
Fight Jet Lag With This Wearable Light
Mashable - 24 Apr 2013 23:53
Frequent travelers who constantly fly across multiple time zones know how hard it is to even maintain a semblance of a "normal" sleep schedule. A new device from an Australian-based sleep research company might help out,...
Ice-bound hunter sees first hint of cosmic neutrinos
New Scientist - 24 Apr 2013 23:49
Two high-energy particles glimpsed by the IceCube neutrino detector may be opening the door on a new way of exploring the universe
Hubble looks to future after a sterling 23 years
NBC News - 24 Apr 2013 23:48
By Mike WallSpace.comNASA's Hubble Space Telescope celebrates a whopping 23 years in orbit today, but astronomers are hopeful that the iconic instrument can keep studying the heavens for years to come.The Hubble team is ...
Earth recycles 2.5-billion-year-old ocean crust
NBC News - 24 Apr 2013 23:48
By Becky OskinLiveScienceThe remains of a real-life journey to the center of the Earth are preserved in a South Pacific volcano, a new study suggests.The lava that erupted from the Cook Islands volcano, called Mangaia, c...
BYOD: 'I don't think we can put the genie back in the bottle'
ZDNet - 24 Apr 2013 23:48
Executives from Fujitsu, VeriSign and BlackBerry discuss the business impact of the "bring your own device" trend at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit.
Netflix details its vision for the future: a world without traditional TV
The Verge - 24 Apr 2013 23:47
Netflix recently announced more than $1 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2013, and now the company has released a mission statement detailing where it is, where it's trying to go, and how it plans to get there...
Senator rips self-regulatory do-not-track efforts
PC World - 24 Apr 2013 23:47
The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday. Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West ...