Motorola has painted its Droid Turbo as having impressive speed and durability, but the smartphone’s long battery life and quick recharge feature also stand out. The smartphone, which has a 5.2-inch screen, will offer 48 hours of battery life. It has a 3,900 milliamp-hour battery and a 15-minute recharge feature …
AMSTERDAM — There are days when even your wife thinks you’re crazy. In my case one those days was when I told her I decided to implant a near-field communication chip in my hand. “You of all people? And that thing will stay in your arm for a year?” she …
If you’re into action sports, Ricoh has a new camera that can film your moves in 360 degrees. The Theta m15 is a slender handheld shooter with a spherical lens that can shoot omnidirectional videos up to three minutes long. By adding video, it improves upon the previous Theta, which …
Android security is always a touchy topic. Companies that make money selling anti-malware software love to commission studies that make it seem like we’re all on the brink of being infected by big, bad malware monsters — but in the real world, things are a lot less scary. You know …
Грядущий экшен от третьего лица Tom Clancy’s The Division может оказаться развлечением не на один день. По крайней мере, на это рассчитывают разработчики, о чём они рассказали в интервью IGN. …
A Chinese website yesterday published what it claimed were screenshots of Microsoft’s next edition of Office for the Mac. The nearly two dozen screenshots posted by cnBeta.com were of Outlook, the email client that’s included in Office on both Windows and OS X. cnBeta.com said that the screenshots were taken …
После того как Microsoft объявила о поглощении Mojang за $2.5 млрд., многие поклонники начали спекулировать на вопросе о будущем популярной игры Minecraft. Сильно ли изменится игра? Каким будет ее будущее? …
Специально для тех, кому часто приходится заряжать мобильные устройства на прикроватных тумбочках или в постели, компания Native Union представила кабель под названием Night Cable. Новинка не соскальзывает на пол и надежно защищена от повреждений. …
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it and what’s it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!” warned Abraham Simpson — of the Springfield Simpsons — way back in 1996. It’s true, and like it or not, mobile …
Image by flickr/Trevor Mattea Earlier this year NASA published a catalog of software code it has developed over the years which you can now access for free. While NASA has a history of making technology it develops available to the public, other developers of proprietary software will sometimes also lift …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has named Steven J. Levine as the Associate Director for the Investment Adviser/Investment Company examination program in its Chicago office. He will oversee the IA/IC examination program in nine Midwestern states, with a staff of approximately 65 examiners, accountants, and attorneys. …
Extending Office 365 functionality to third-party developers, Microsoft has exposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) so other companies can add features and capabilities to the online productivity service. The company announced the new functionality at the TechEd Europe conference, held this week in Barcelona. The APIs are a …
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday called the battle with retailers like Walmart, Rite Aid, CVS and others over mobile payments only a “skirmish” while speaking at the Wall Street Journal‘s technology conference. “I think it’s a skirmish, is where we see it,” Cook said when asked if the refusal …
ARM, whose processors are used in most mobile devices today, is supercharging its latest Mali graphics technology to bring 4K graphics to tablets and smartphones while also extending device battery life. It’s becoming important for mobile devices to have good graphics cores to handle higher-resolution screens, cameras and external 4K …
Start-up XYZPrinting today released its first all-in-one 3D printer, which uses a 3D laser scanner to replicate objects placed inside the machine. While other 3D printing companies sell handheld scanners or separate scanning tables, XYZPrinting is the first to incorporate scanning into a consumer-grade product. The da Vinci 1.0 AiO …
While businesses have always been careful about how much they spent on electricity, today’s displays are making it a lot easier to keep bills lower — and the environment safer. For example, I measured a four-year-old 27-in. Apple Cinema Display as using 101 watts of power. However, the three 27-in. …
Apple’s new NFC mobile payment system — Apple Pay — has received generally positive reviews from users and journalists alike. On the other hand, a group of retailers known as Merchant Customer Exchange recently had a less-than-enthusiastic reaction to Apple’s new wireless wonder. So unenthused, the group has now blocked …
The founder of a powerboat racing business is looking to use the cloud to track the company boat’s performance during offshore races and keep fans and racing officials updated with animated race visualizations. “It really pushes the envelope…, being able to develop [a cloud technology] quickly and having a robustness …
Earlier this year I wrote about the source code for some classic proprietary software which has been made available to the public. Much of that code was released by or in conjunction with the Computer History Museum, which is a great source of this sort of stuff. Recently the museum …
A diversification of targets for a clever keylogging attack suggests that several hacking groups may be using the “ScanBox” framework, which spies on users without installing malicious software. ScanBox was found in August by the security company Alien Vault on the website of a large industrial company that develops simulation …
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has changed its H-1B record retention policy to the concern of people who study the visa’s impact on the workforce and economy. In a notice posted last week, the U.S. Department of Labor said that records used for labor certification, whether in paper or electronic, “are …
Microsoft is making Office 365 a considerably sweeter deal with unlimited OneDrive storage for all users, as the commoditization of pure cloud storage continues. The free upgrade will roll out to all subscribers “over the coming months,” Microsoft says. Existing subscribers can jump ahead in line by signing up through Microsoft’s …
Everspin has signed up chip maker Global Foundries as a manufacturing partner for its next-generation MRAM (Magnetoresistive RAM) memory chips, in a development that should help the promising technology move toward mass production. MRAM is an emerging memory technology that offers the speed of fast memory technologies like SRAM and …
Researchers from the University of Central Florida and Eindhoven University of Technology say that they’ve developed a new fiber optic medium that allows data to be sent and received at up to 255Tbps, a roughly twenty-fold increase over current fiber. The innovation, described in a paper for the current online …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a global water management, construction, and drilling company headquartered in Texas with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by making improper payments to foreign officials in several African countries in order to obtain beneficial treatment and reduce its tax liability. After Layne …
The newest enterprise edition of the Suse Linux distribution allows administrators to go back in time, for instance, to immediately before they made that fatal system-crippling mistake. Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12) features a system snapshot and rollback capability that allows the user to boot the system to …