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Casio's newest selfie camera wants to blend into your purse
Engadget - 24 Sep 2014 14:43
In the same way that Lizzie Grant and Katheryn Hudson screwed up their first shot at greatness and changed their name, Casio's trying to do the same with its old Tryx point-and-shoot. The fourth-generation of the digital...
Netflix rejects Canadian regulator's bid for customer data
Slash Gear - 24 Sep 2014 13:30
Netflix has pushed back against a request by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for what it says is confidential information on subscribers, as well as sensitive data of a potentially ...
PayPal Maybe Sorta Kinda Slightly Accepting Bitcoin
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 03:11
PayPal has just taken its very first baby step towards allowing Bitcoin payments for goods, thanks to a partnership with payment processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin.
The Cop That Blasted Apple's New Encryption Got His Facts Backwards
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 02:40
On Tuesday morning, The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Ronald T. Hosko, a former assistant director at the FBI, about how Apple's new encryption techniques would've lead to the death of a victim in a case ...
Google X's Sebastian Thrun is no longer vice president
Slash Gear - 24 Sep 2014 11:30
The man behind Google X, the Internet giant's "secret laboratory" of sorts, has left his roles as Vice President and Fellow. So says Sebastian Thrun's LinkedIn profile via a change made last month, which lead to confirma...
A Bittersweet Walk On the High Line's Latest (and Last) Leg
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 22:36
For the past five years, New Yorkers have enjoyed that linear green thoroughfare known as the High Line, which has been slowly extending up the West Side of Manhattan since 2009. Yesterday, the third and final phase of t...
Contour ROAM3 Action camera: waterproof to 30ft and more
Slash Gear - 24 Sep 2014 03:18
Contour has introduced another small camcorder targeted at outdoorsy folks: the ROAM3 action camera. With the ROAM3 comes the features you'd expect in an action camera, including rugged construction and the ability to be...
Report: Apple Knew of Security Problems Long Before iCloud Breach
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 23:10
A software developer is accusing Apple of brushing off a serious iCloud security flaw that he alerted the company to six months before the recent iCloud celebrity nude photo stealing scandal.
Galaxy Note Edge a "limited edition concept" says Samsung
Slash Gear - 24 Sep 2014 23:08
It might seem strange to those that understand how widely the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is launching that the company would call the device a "limited edition concept." That's just what Samsung Electronic president D J Le...
Facebook offers more details on its internet-beaming planes
Engadget - 24 Sep 2014 22:46
We've known about Facebook's ambitious plans to bring internet to developing areas via drone for a while now. At the Social Good Summit this week, Facebook Connectivity Lab's Yael Maguire revealed more details about what...
The Evil Within trailers give in-depth Mikami perspective
Slash Gear - 24 Sep 2014 22:27
This afternoon the development teams at Bethesda and Tango Gameworks have let loose massive amounts of detail in and around their next game "The Evil Within." This game will be a horror game, if you did not know, complet...
New app makes iPhone camera more like a DSLR
Slash Gear - 24 Sep 2014 22:26
Part of the knock on mobile photography is the lack of controls. Unlike a DSLR, the ability to control things like exposure are typically lost on a smartphone. With increased third-party integration in iOS 8, a new app a...
This Flapping Device Makes Electricity From Wind Rushing Past Your Car
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 02:30
As far as car accessories go, we have to admit this one looks pretty silly. But the Samsung scientists who made it could also be onto something. The flapping tongues inside are actually coated with gold, and when they ru...
Apple knew about iCloud security issues, Dev says
Slash Gear - 24 Sep 2014 23:34
The ongoing celebrity photo leaks all come back to one thing: iCloud security. The pics were allegedly snatched from iCloud, which has prompted Apple to shore up cloud storage security. A new report claims Apple wasn't c...
A Blueprint-Style Catalog of Man's Greatest Erections
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 23:25
Do you love architecture? Like, really, really love it? The Schematic of Structures is the latest poster by the chronic catalogers at Popchartlab, showing bitty, blueprint-esque icons of famous constructions from Stonehe...
This Modified Moped Engine Powers a Boat, Concrete Mixer, and Woodsaw
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 23:20
We live in a world of vehicles and machinery made up of a million different moving parts and hyper-specialized tech guts. Using nothing more than a modified moped motor, Gaspard Tiné-Berès and Tristan Kopp of Re-Do Stu...
HTC hints that it's unveiling an action camera on October 8th
Engadget - 24 Sep 2014 23:19
Those claims that HTC is making an action camera just got much more concrete. The company has posted both a RECamera teaser site and a video (below) which not-so-subtly hint that the adventure-oriented shooter should lau...
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Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 23:14
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FuelWear makes sure the weather won't slow you down
Coolest Gadgets - 24 Sep 2014 22:56
Winter is slowly drawing near, and if you live in the states, you’re likely prepping for the chance of another polar vortex hitting. Of course, the weather isn’t necessarily bad everywhere, but in some cases it can b...
Heating Elements Inside this Suitcase Kill Stowaway Bed Bugs
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 22:50
If there's one souvenir you don't want to return from a trip with, it's bed bugs. Those little pests are a nightmare to eradicate, so someone has created the perfect luggage for travelers who frequent seedy hotels. The T...
The shrinking of the Arctic ice in one simple graphic
Gizmodo - 24 Sep 2014 22:23
NASA's Greg Shirah made this great grid graphic using images of the north pole sea ice extent from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. From left to right you go from 1979 to 2014. From top to bottom you can see the mo...
Amazon lets you fill out your wish list with the help of a hashtag
Engadget - 24 Sep 2014 22:14
Look beyond the lightspeed rush of news and one-liners and you'll see a Twitter that's slowly morphing into a place where you can buy stuff. Amazon seems to be coming to grips with that peculiar truth, which is why it co...