Gadget News
OneDrive Personal Vault is now available for all with some caveats
Slash Gear - 1 Oct 2019 06:59
Cloud file storage is often presented as a collaborative tool but it can also be used for keeping personal backups of files you want to access any time, anywhere, and on any device. Sometimes, however, those files may re...
New analysis details the numerous health consequences of vaping
Slash Gear - 1 Oct 2019 04:26
A new analysis has detailed the various health consequences of vaping based on all peer-reviewed studies published on vaping and electronic cigarettes to date. The team found that electronic cigarettes have been linked t...
NASA's call for human lunar lander proposals has 'ambitious' deadline
Slash Gear - 1 Oct 2019 02:58
NASA is now accepting proposals for human lunar landing systems, the space agency announced on Monday. The call has been put out under the Artemis program following two previous drafts issued on July 19 and August 30. Ac...
GoPro Gets Weird With the Hero Max 360 Camera
Gizmodo - 1 Oct 2019 19:20
GoPro is giving the 360 camera thing another try, this time with the Hero Max, a $500 dual-lens camera that the company swears is a far more user-friendly device than its previous consumer version, the GoPro Fusion.
Tech giants to face House committee hearings over effects on small business
Engadget - 1 Oct 2019 19:01
Internet heavyweights are facing yet more congressional scrutiny over their competitive practices. The House Small Business Committee intends to question Amazon, Facebook and Google over their possible harm to competitio...
Ex-Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty to Hacking Thousands of Accounts to Search for Nude Photos
Gizmodo - 1 Oct 2019 18:48
A former Yahoo software engineer who worked at the tech company for more than a decade pleaded guilty on Monday to accessing email accounts belonging to thousands of customers while searching for sexually explicit conten...
NASA's Spitzer snaps a cool image of star-making region
Slash Gear - 1 Oct 2019 17:46
The image here was taken by the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and shows a cloud of dust and gas that is full of bubbles inflated by wind and radiation from young, massive stars. Each of the bubbles is filled with hundreds...
GoPro Hero 8 Black review: Minor redesign, major pay-off
Engadget - 1 Oct 2019 16:55
Typically, each year's flagship GoPro touts a marquee feature. In the past, that's included 4K/30fps video (Hero 4), built-in waterproofing (Hero 5) and really good stabilization (Hero 7). The new Hero 8 Black ($399) doe...
New Microsoft Surface lineup leaks ahead of Wednesday's unveiling
Engadget - 1 Oct 2019 05:49
Wondering what's in store for the Microsoft Surface event on Wednesday? Evan Blass has posted renderings of several devices, including a Surface Pro 7 that brings a USB-C connector instead of Mini DisplayPort, and 10th-g...
Mac Pros might be a more expensive as Apple tariff relief gets denied
Slash Gear - 1 Oct 2019 04:58
The US government’s blacklists and tariffs were meant to send a strong statement to China and pressure the latter in its ongoing trade and political spat. Unfortunately, it won’t just be the Chinese economy that will...
What Would It Be Like to Live in an Era of Geoengineering?
Gizmodo - 1 Oct 2019 02:15
Geoengineering is the bogeyman of climate policy, a word that calls to mind skies bleached sulphur white, dessicated crop fields, and dead zones expanding across the oceans. Humanity has a garbage track record when it co...
'Apex Legends' Season 3 debuts with a new hero and new map
Engadget - 2 Oct 2019 01:50
If Apex Legends felt like it was getting a little stale, you'll be glad to hear it just got a breath of new life. Respawn and EA have launched Season 3 as promised, bringing with it both the recon-oriented hero Crypto an...
NASA's InSight shares two audio recordings of quakes on Mars
Slash Gear - 2 Oct 2019 01:11
NASA’s InSight lander has sent back data that produced two audio recordings of quakes taking place on Mars. The space agency refers to these as ‘peculiar’ sounds, sharing each with the public as audio files anyone ...
Dive Into October's Harvest of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Gizmodo - 2 Oct 2019 00:50
If our massive fall preview left you wanting even more books for your list, you miiiight be an alien from some kind of speed-reading planet. But as it happens, we do have some new additions on our expanded October round-...
Now You Can Listen to Marsquakes
Gizmodo - 2 Oct 2019 00:45
NASA has turned Marsquake data into sounds you can actually listen to.
Tesla reportedly buys AI startup that helps self-driving cars see
Engadget - 2 Oct 2019 00:36
It's safe to say that Tesla's self-driving efforts haven't gone smoothly. It took the better part of a year for Smart Summon to arrive, and there's not much time left to fulfill goals of full self-driving (on city street...
VW's Electrify America starts selling its first home EV charger
Engadget - 2 Oct 2019 00:24
Electrify America isn't focused solely on public charging stations. The VW outfit is now offering its first home unit, the simply titled Electric Vehicle Home Charger, on Amazon. The $499 box provides Level 2 charging at...
WhatsApp messages may soon delete themselves
Slash Gear - 2 Oct 2019 00:23
When it comes to security and privacy, one of WhatsApp’s main draws is its use of end-to-end encryption. It may not be long before WhatsApp is offering another feature to pull in the privacy-first crowd: self-destructi...
Pandora overhauls mobile apps with personalized 'For You' feed
Slash Gear - 2 Oct 2019 00:13
Starting today, Pandora users on iOS and Android are getting an updated version of the app that features the Pandora Modes station already offered on the service’s desktop site, as well as a new ‘For You’ tab that ...
UPS Gets FAA Approval to Run America's First Drone Delivery Airline
Gizmodo - 2 Oct 2019 00:10
The Federal Aviation Administration has given UPS approval to run a drone fleet, enabling the company to create a UAV delivery airline.
A 1964 Earthquake Might Have Unleashed a Deadly Fungus on the Pacific Northwest
Gizmodo - 2 Oct 2019 00:00
Two decades ago, a rare but deadly fungal infection began killing animals and people in the U.S. and Canada. To this day, no one has figured out how it arrived there in the first place. Now a pair of scientists have put ...
'Rocket League' will replace randomized loot crates with 'blueprints'
Engadget - 1 Oct 2019 23:59
Psyonix revealed in August it planned to kill off Rocket League's randomized loot crates. It's now laid out how it will replace them: with a new type of drop called blueprints.