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Seek XR thermal smartphone camera brings optical zoom
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2015 03:23
This past September, Seek Thermal introduced its Seek camera for smartphones, which gives the handsets the ability to look at the world around them based on its heat levels. Keeping in step with its biggest competitor, F...
How to Make Sure Amazon's Recommendations Actually Work
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 23:50
Amazon has a lot of information about you, which it uses to try and suggest other stuff you might like (to buy). If you notice that your recommendations are frequently unhelpful, then there are some tweaks you can make i...
Windows 10 Has Cortana Voice Commands Baked Into Every Cranny
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 19:26
Microsoft's Cortana voice-assistant is coming to Windows 10 as we expected. Now you'll be able to speak commands and ask questions throughout the operating system. At its core, it's similar to the assistant we've seen on...
What's on your HDTV: State of the Union, 'The Fall', 'Justified'
Engadget - 21 Jan 2015 02:53
Tonight President Barack Obama's State of the Union address gives us a great chance to compare the quality in feeds of different networks (oh, and the political stuff), but we're really waiting for the premiere episode o...
Obama pledges to 'protect a free and open internet,' tackle climate change
Engadget - 21 Jan 2015 05:56
Leading up to the State of the Union, President Barack Obama criss-crossed the nation offering proposals on everything from free college, to cybersecurity and consumer privacy. But the president kept the details of these...
Google wants to test 24GHz spectrum with balloons, drones
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2015 01:40
Drones, balloons, rockets -- Google has seemingly endless schemes for delivering Internet to us. We may be largely stuck on the ground, but that doesn't stop us from beaming info all over the place. In a new letter to th...
DOJ Will Pay $134k for Catfishing Drug Dealers With Stolen Facebook Pics
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 01:12
In case snooping wasn't enough, the U.S. government is also neck-deep in creeptastic digital impersonation schemes. The Justice Department has agreed to pay a woman $134,000 for stealing her personal information to set u...
Logic Pro X adds new sounds, better drummers, more
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2015 23:54
Logic Pro X has had a quiet update, with new backing percussion options and tools, tweaks to how the music app handles edits, and - maybe most important of all - smarter balancing of automation versus musicality. The new...
ESPN is bringing camera drones to the X Games
Engadget - 21 Jan 2015 23:50
Last September, the Federal Aviation Administration began working with movie and TV groups to grant them approval for operating drones in national airspace. Most recently, cable news channel CNN got the green light from ...
When did Apple become the boring one?
Engadget - 21 Jan 2015 23:28
In less than a decade, Apple completely changed the world of personal computing, and the music industry in the process. First came the iPod and the iTunes Store, then the iPhone and App Store, and then the iPad. The Appl...
Man, I Cannot Wait to Stream Xbox Games to My Laptop
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 23:27
At its big Windows 10 event today, Microsoft talked about its universal apps , Windows 10 for phones , and a big crazy Surface TV thing . But forget all that. You're gonna be able to stream Xbox One games to any other de...
10 things to know about Windows 10
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2015 23:10
Now that Microsoft's Windows 10 event is wrapped up, we're left reeling by all the promise their cross-device single platform holds for us. Also impressive is the scope Microsoft imagines the digital world in, and their ...
VSN Mobil V.360 Camera Review
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2015 23:05
The V.360 camera presents a fairly remarkable media-capturing proposition: the ability to capture panoramic (360-degree) videos or photographs with one tap. No stitching, no multiple-shot photography necessary. This syst...
This Huge BMX Park Is Hidden 100 Feet Underground In an Abandoned Mine
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 22:41
Right now, indoor BMX parks are all the rage in cities across America. But obviously, these parks are limited by the size of the buildings they inhabit. How to overcome that constraint? Well, you could find an old limest...
Twitter is ready to replace your apps' web passwords with phone numbers
Engadget - 21 Jan 2015 22:05
Ready to ditch old-fashioned passwords on the web? Twitter is, too. It just released a developer kit that lets mobile apps' companion websites use Digits phone number logins. While you still have to create an account on ...
Five Best Space Heaters
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 22:00
We've got your five most starred nominees for best space heater, and now it's time to find a winner. Read up and head for the poll.
Is the Innanet RUINING teh English Language??? ¯\(°_o)/¯
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 22:00
There exists a certain paranoia that the web will somehow destroy the English language as we all start communicating solely in LOLs and smileys. But seen another way, the linguistic tricks we've enlisted to portray attit...
I'm Bill Nye, and This Is How I Work
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 22:00
For many of us Bill Nye is part of our childhoods, playing that crucial role as educator and illuminator of science when our impressionable minds might not have thought to ask why. With his television show he taught us w...
Here's how you get Microsoft HoloLens
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2015 21:55
You can't just go out and buy Microsoft Hololens to experience Windows Holographic for Windows 10. Not yet, at least. There's no solid launch window - nothing extremely specific, that is - as of yet, but we do have a few...
An 86-year-old woman has been living on cruise ships for a decade
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 21:55
Meet Mama Lee. Mama Lee is 86-years-old, enjoys ballroom dancing, and has been a full-time resident of a cruise ship for the past ten years. It costs her about $164,000 a year, but it really sounds like she's loving her ...
Here Is Microsoft's Demo of Those Crazy Holodeck Glasses
Gizmodo - 21 Jan 2015 21:34
Today, Microsoft announced Project Hololens , its crazy attempt to make a goggle-based faceputer that will project VR all over your daily life. We haven't had a chance to try it on just yet, but here's video of Microsoft...
The Ceramic Pot Minder - a watched pot never boils over
Coolest Gadgets - 21 Jan 2015 21:30
When making dinner, you’re usually not focused on one task. It’s far more common to be pulled in four different directions, and it can be difficult to keep track of everything. More often than not, you get to a point...