Gadget News
Jawbone's New UP24 Finally Brings Bluetooth to the Party
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 16:00
It's kind of hard to believe, but Jawbone--a company that was built on Bluetooth--didn't have a wireless radio in the first two iterations of its fitness tracker, the Jawbone UP . That finally changes today with the intr...
Screen Time Tracking Monitor - $49
The Gadget Flow - 13 Nov 2013 00:00The Handheld Mathematics of Geometer Ron Resch
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 23:40
Visionary applied geometer Ron Resch, who passed away in 2012, is the subject of the incredible documentary embedded above, that, while by no means new (it was produced back in the grainy days of 1970) seemed worth posti...
Back When We Wanted to Weaponize the Weather
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 23:57
Palm trees and lower heating bills in Chicago? Bikinis and orange blossoms in Duluth? Back in 1958 these miracles were the promise of tomorrow, thanks to the hot new science of weather control . And once we learned to ha...
Looks like HP and Google are putting the brakes on Chromebook 11 sales due to complaints of overheat
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 23:53
Looks like HP and Google are putting the brakes on Chromebook 11 sales due to complaints of overheated chargers getting damaged. If you've already gotten your hands on the laptop, hold off on using it or switch out your ...
Jolla phone will use Nokia Here map data, get Android apps through Yandex
Engadget - 13 Nov 2013 23:52Beats by Dr. Dre announces new Pill and Pill XL with NFC
Slash Gear - 13 Nov 2013 23:49
Beats Electronics has announced a new, larger incarnation of the Beats Pill: the Pill XL. Measuring in at 13 inches long by 4 inches in diameter, the Pill XL will arrive in stores by early December, 2013. Both the origin...
Tesla plant incident injures 3 but unconnected with Model S fire furore
Slash Gear - 13 Nov 2013 23:36
A incident at Tesla‘s Fremont, CA. factory has left three employees injured, the car company has confirmed today. Reports of an explosion were first made by NBC Bay Area, but downplayed by emergency services called to ...
HP and Google put sales of Chromebook 11 on hold after reports of overheating chargers
Engadget - 13 Nov 2013 23:24Zepp Sensor aims to quantify your every move
Slash Gear - 13 Nov 2013 23:06
We’re ramping up at an unprecedented rate this year towards total quantification of movement – especially sports and exercise-related movement – with devices like the Zepp Sensor. This device works inside a whole Z...
Lenovo exec on why you're probably not using one of his phones... yet
Engadget - 13 Nov 2013 23:06
If you look around now, chances are you won't spot a single Lenovo smartphone nearby. Unless you're in one of the 15 countries -- mostly in emerging markets -- where the company's been rolling out its mobile devices sinc...
Yahoo's Having a Domain Yard Sale: Who Wants Sandwich.com?
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 22:49
Have you been frustrated to consistently find that the highly specific domain of your dreams is never available? If so, there's a good chance that Yahoo has been sitting on it for quite some time. And it's about to be yo...
YouTube Capture for iOS update adds clip splicing and iTunes soundtracking
Engadget - 13 Nov 2013 22:47This Comic Predicted the First Robot Suicide Over 40 Years Ago
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 22:25
The internet is abuzz with a Daily Mail report on the world's first robot suicide. A family in Austria claims that after performing its daily duties, their Roomba robot somehow "reactivated itself" and met its demise on ...
NASA video imagines young Mars with lakes and clouds
Slash Gear - 13 Nov 2013 22:13
NASA‘s Goddard Conceptual Image Lab has released a video illustrating the way Mars might have looked 4 billion years ago, back when both Mars and Earth were young. It’s one of the most complex scientifically informed...
Football Manager 2013 downloaded 10.1m times illegally say devs
Slash Gear - 13 Nov 2013 22:12
Piracy of Football Manager 2013 saw more than 10m people illegally download the game since mid-May 2013, Sports Interactive chief Miles Jacobson has revealed, with one copy even being stolen by a user in the Vatican. The...
If you have a bit of a Pocket trigger finger, the reading app's latest update will make it easier fo
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 22:07
If you have a bit of a Pocket trigger finger, the reading app's latest update will make it easier for you to wade through all those unread articles. The new feature, called Highlights, will sort items in your list by pop...
Newly discovered optical illusion will screw up your mind
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 22:05
Scientists have discovered a new optical illusion that will screw up your brain big time. Focus on the red cross while the dots move. They are wriggling around, right? Wrong. All of them are moving "in straight trajector...
PlayStation 4 DLNA and MP3 playback possible once more
Slash Gear - 13 Nov 2013 22:03
Though the PlayStation 4 wont work with DLNA and MP3 playback right out of the box, it’s been confirmed this week by Sony that they’ll certainly be looking at incorporating the features in the near future. Due to ove...
How We Barely Beat Soviet Russia to Inventing the Laser
Gizmodo - 13 Nov 2013 22:00
Russians were pioneers in the development of lasers, today a multi-billion dollar industry. Two of them, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolai Basov, won the Nobel Prize in 1964, along with the American Charles Townes, for the...
Dropbox links business and personal accounts, says it's tired of juggling passwords
Engadget - 13 Nov 2013 21:58
It's a double-edged sword: your work is using one of your favorite services to manage files and projects, but now you have to juggle two logins to maintain balance between your personal and work accounts. This frustratin...
Dropbox gets personal and business cloud combo support
Slash Gear - 13 Nov 2013 21:52
Dropbox has refreshed its cloud storage software to support multiple accounts, allowing Dropbox for Business users to also access their personal documents from a single app. Not only can users of the company’s mobile s...