Technology News
How to avoid wrecking your vision while staring at a computer screen
BGR - 28 Mar 2014 00:15
Nowadays, we spend nearly 6 hours each day staring at a display, whether it’s a desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet. After looking at screens all day, your eyes may start to feel a bit off, which means you may be suf...
Mysterious unidentified flying object photographed over Texas
Gizmodo - 28 Mar 2014 00:48
Defense technology blog Ares reports on a mysterious flying object--most certainly a military classified aircraft--flying over the skies of Amarillo, Texas, on March 10. Aviation Week's defense expert Bill Sweetman says ...
Designer: You look like an 'idiot' with Glass on, 'a complete d--' when you ride a Segway
BGR - 28 Mar 2014 17:30
Australian designer Marc Newson talked to Dezeen about his new line of glasses that will launch in Milan next month and the conversation unsurprisingly lead to Google's smart take on eyewear. The designer took the chance...
MIT Researchers Bring JavaScript To Google Glass
Slashdot - 28 Mar 2014 02:30
colinneagle (2544914) writes "Earlier this week, Brandyn White, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, and Scott Greenberg, a PhD candidate at MIT, led a workshop at the MIT Media Lab to showcase an open source p...
Google: Apps the way you like it
CNET - 28 Mar 2014 00:36Microsoft makes Office for iPhone and Android completely free
The Verge - 28 Mar 2014 00:19
Microsoft's Office Mobile apps for Android and iPhone are now completely free for all home users. The company has done away with the need for an Office 365 subscription, opening up the full document viewing and editing c...
Sixth-Grader Tells Government How To Save $400m On Ink
Forbes - 28 Mar 2014 18:27
Switching fonts on their documents could save the federal and state governments up to $400 million a year, according to a sixth-grader.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Image Of Mars-Bound Comet Sprouting Jets Of Dust
IBTimes - 28 Mar 2014 18:24
NASA, on Thursday, released an image of a comet that is expected to pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the distance between Earth and the moon -- on Oct. 19, and the finding could help scientists determin...
Amazon Denies Rumor of Free Streaming Service, So What's It Really Doing Next Week?
Time - 28 Mar 2014 15:42
Amazon says it has no "plans" for an ad-supported streaming video service.
The 'bricycle' dilemma - to steer or balance?
Phys.org - 28 Mar 2014 14:06
(Phys.org) --When you were learning to ride a bicycle you thought gravity was your enemy, trying to make you fall over. But without gravity, you wouldn't be able to steer, say Cornell engineers. To demonstrate the concep...
Sony A77II Could Be Announced At The World Photography Awards Exhibition [Rumor]
Ubergizmo - 28 Mar 2014 13:56
We have been hearing quite a number of rumors lately regarding the Sony A77's successor, which at the moment is currently tipped to be the A77II. According to earlier rumors, apparently the camera is due for an announcem...
Review: Olympus OMD EM10
The Phoblographer - 28 Mar 2014 06:05
Olympus's OMD EM10 is one of the best entry level cameras that you can get your hands on.
Philips wants to sell you 3D printed hue luminaires
Slash Gear - 28 Mar 2014 06:01
Philips' hue system of smart home lighting is already pretty eye-catching when it cycles through colors, but the company is turning to 3D printing to make things even more dramatic. …
Louisiana's Swamp-Rat Dog Treat
The New Yorker - 28 Mar 2014 03:01
Nutria, the furry rodents with ratlike tails and two bright-orange front teeth, reproduce at astounding rates. In Louisiana, they have consumed acres of native flora and exposed broad swaths of marsh to erosion by tides ...
BlackBerry Newsstand And News To Be Discontinued
Ubergizmo - 28 Mar 2014 02:46
Here's some bad news for BlackBerry users: if you frequently rely on apps like BlackBerry Newssstand or BlackBerry News to access your magazines or news, you will be disappointed to learn that BlackBerry has announced th...
Sony A6000 For US Could Begin Shipping Next Week [Rumor]
Ubergizmo - 28 Mar 2014 02:13
If there's one thing about pre-order is that you'd have to wait for the product to be released at its given date and time before you are able to get your hands on it. Sure, you might have secured the product ahead of eve...
Despite 'Outrage' Over Twitter Ban, Turks Hold Off on Street Protests
Mashable - 28 Mar 2014 01:51
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down another social network on Thursday, blocking access to YouTube just a week after banning Twitter. And, despite a history of public demonstrations, Turkish people ha...
Facebook Will Build Drones and Satellites to Beam Internet Around the World
Wired - 28 Mar 2014 01:14
Mark Zuckerberg is putting together a lab where a team of Facebook engineers will build flying drones, satellites, and infrared lasers capable of beaming internet connections to people down here on earth.
Whitefish man honored for locating Apollo rockets
Miami Herald - 28 Mar 2014 00:56
Jay Larsen was towing a chirping sonar device three miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, trolling the Bermuda Triangle for lost artifacts, when he discovered a trove of buried treasure that had spent more tha...
'Bling Bishop' Wanted to Blow $45 Million on His Headquarters
Mashable - 28 Mar 2014 00:47
If Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst makes it up to the gates of Heaven, God's probably going to ask about this. The Limburg, Germany bishop reportedly resigned on Wednesday after a 108-page report by Germany's Catholi...
Medical First: 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman
NBC News - 28 Mar 2014 00:40
Another day, another advance in 3-D printing technology.Doctors in the Netherlands report that they have for the first time successfully replaced most of a human's skull with a 3-D printed plastic one -- and likely saved...
How the NSA would get phone data under Obama administration's new plan
Ars Technica - 28 Mar 2014 00:35
Just because phone companies keep the data doesn't mean NSA won't have broad access.