Technology News
iPhone 6s Now Available SIM-Free in Apple Online Store
Mac Rumors - 9 Oct 2015 03:33
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are now available SIM-free in Apple's online store, allowing potential customers to buy an unlocked iPhone with no carrier attached. The new option was first spotted by MacRumors forum member Te...
Sony Xperia Z5 range is coming to Australia next week
Mashable - 9 Oct 2015 08:17
Sony has announced the Australian pricing and release date for its latest Xperia phone models. The Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact and Xperia Z5 Premium were launched at an event in Sydney on Thursday night. The Z5 and Z5 C...
Elon Musk: Apple hired the Tesla engineers we've fired
Engadget - 9 Oct 2015 05:43
During an interview with German business newspaper Handelsblatt on Thursday, Elon Musk unleashed some very CE-Oh No He Didn't!-worthy words about Apple's car efforts. "They have hired people we've fired," he responded wh...
Apple Removes Some Ad Blockers From App Store for Installing Root Certificates
Mac Rumors - 9 Oct 2015 06:10
Apple tonight removed some ad blockers, among other apps, from the App Store for installing root certificates that would allow developers to view encrypted traffic from their users, reports iMore. In a statement provided...
Uber's Probe of Data Breach Focuses on Lyft Executive
Wall Street Journal - 9 Oct 2015 05:22
Investigators looking into last year's data breach and theft of drivers' records from Uber Technologies have found indictions implicating an executive at rival ride-hailing app Lyft.
You can now 3D print custom gold jewelry
Slash Gear - 9 Oct 2015 23:47
Sure, you can 3D print yourself a house, and in the future you may be able to 3D print yourself a replacement eyeball. Neither of those are likely to ever be something you need and/or want, but customized gold jewelry? I...
Voigtlander announces three new extreme wide-angle lenses for Sony E-mount
DP Review - 9 Oct 2015 21:04
Voigtländer has introduced three new lenses that will be released in Spring 2016: the 10mm F5.6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar, 12mm F5.6 Ultra-Wide-Heliar, and 15mm F4.5 Super-Wide-Heliar. All three lenses will feature a Sony E-m...
iPhone 6s chips from TSMC and Samsung have similar battery life, says Apple
PC World - 9 Oct 2015 16:42
Apple is downplaying reports that the iPhone 6s gets inferior battery life when its A9 processor is supplied by Samsung instead of TSMC. Apple often sources its components from multiple suppliers, and in this case it's r...
How Do You Confuse Two Lethal Injection Drugs? We Asked a Pharmacologist
Motherboard - 9 Oct 2015 15:45
In a January execution, officials in Oklahoma used potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride...what's the difference?
Hulu's virtual reality app will launch alongside Gear VR in November
Engadget - 9 Oct 2015 22:24
Oculus and Samsung's first fully-fledged virtual reality product, the Gear VR, is set to launch in November for $99. A host of apps have been announced to work with the new hardware, and now we have confirmation that Hul...
Watch Water Get Tied in a Knot
Gizmodo - 9 Oct 2015 22:00
How do you tie water in a knot? First you make parts of it into vortices, which move more like long continuous strings than groups of autonomous molecules. Then you need to tangle those strings together.
How A $300 Fiat Inspired The First Leatherman Multitool
Gizmodo - 9 Oct 2015 21:59
Today, they're ubiquitous, but would you believe Tim Leatherman struggled for years to find a buyer for the first-ever multitool? He was inspired to invent it after a 20-country drive through Europe on a shoestring budge...
Adobe Updates Lightroom CC to Kill the Crash Bug
PetaPixel - 9 Oct 2015 18:02MakerBot lays off another twenty percent of its workers
Engadget - 9 Oct 2015 03:16
In April MakerBot laid off 20 percent of its workforce. Roughly six months later, its doing it again, trimming another fifth of its payroll as it struggles to meet lofty ambitions and expectations set by its parent compa...
Deadspin Police: UCLA Punter Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape | Gawker Undercover Cops Sue City After B
Gizmodo - 9 Oct 2015 23:59
Deadspin Police: UCLA Punter Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape | Gawker Undercover Cops Sue City After Being Caught Allegedly Getting Hand Jobs From Prostitutes | Kotaku Minecraft Streamer Buys Swank Mansion For $4.5M | Life...
Firefox will stop supporting web plugins (except for Flash) by the end of 2016
Engadget - 9 Oct 2015 23:58
Horrible browser plugins used to offer extended multimedia features for website, often at the cost of a much worse overall experience -- thankfully, they're going the way of the dodo. Chrome recently banished plugins lik...
Playdate: Giving away Snake's watch with 'Metal Gear Online'
Engadget - 9 Oct 2015 23:30
Metal Gear Online hasn't even been active a week and yet and it's dealing with some pretty serious issues. First there's the whole real-money for in-game insurance thing, and as Eurogamer reports, there's a load of balan...
OnePlus "E" appears at FCC in photos
Slash Gear - 9 Oct 2015 23:20
A OnePlus smartphone has appeared at the FCC in a couple of testing photos that suggest the company is headed for the low end. This device looks like a combination of an iPhone 5c and an iPhone 6, working with a curved-e...
Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now
Gizmodo - 9 Oct 2015 23:20
You can stop making that face right now because it's FRIDAY!
DARPA's looking toward disappearing delivery drones
Slash Gear - 9 Oct 2015 23:15
The problem with making deliveries to remotely located military troops is that anyone can see the delivery take place -- at least those nearby -- and will know, as a result, approximately where the team is located. In ot...
Can't accept autonomous liability? Get out of the game, says Volvo
Engadget - 9 Oct 2015 23:11
Volvo has an easy answer for all the hand-wringing about whose responsible when self-driving cars crash.Volvo chief executive officer and president Håkan Samuelsson says one of the most vexing challenges facing the auto...
Bikram Yoga Can't Be Copyrighted. Neither Should APIs.
Motherboard - 9 Oct 2015 22:57
"Interoperability" isn't quite the right word for why other yoga studies used the Bikram yoga Sequence, but the reasoning is similar.