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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comThe BBC is today introducing its latest mobile app in the UK, as it looks to help encourage kids to read from a young age. Available for iOS and Android, CBeebies Storytime features many of the familiar CBeebies characters across six boo...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EngadgetSky's done a reasonable job of bringing new channels to its Now TV set-top box, especially given the rebranded Roku is just a vehicle for selling short-term entertainment and sports passes to the contract-adverse. Today, that £10 box get...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EngadgetRemember Google's mysterious floating barge? Well, you probably won't for much longer, because it's met an untimely end. According to the Portland Press Herald, the search giant no longer has a use for the iconic four-story structure, so...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesFor those who’ve just started using the OS X Yosemite public beta, or are just anticipating its launch later this year, we’ve got some tips on how to best take advantage of the redesigned OS. First up, a tour of Apple’s web browser, Safari.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThink of it as the Pinterest of to-do lists. Trello is an online tool for managing projects and personal tasks. That may sounds rather prosaic. But this increasingly popular app often inspires the sort of passion usually reserved for con...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesCrumbling, abandoned American mental asylums from the early 20th century—like the one in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—aren’t places most of us would want to hang out. Photographer Jeremy Harris, on the other ha...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesFrom geckos having sex in space to 14-foot monsters, we're fully committing to the ridiculous in this week's TV round-up. And why shouldn't we? The news pouring in from around the world lately is bad, really bad, so consider this your oa...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesE-commerce may be eating the world, but Sephora's leadership believes technology can actually complement---rather than kill---the retail store.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThere are many ways Guardians of the Galaxy could've misstepped, but it's as sure-footed as any Marvel film to date.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThe deal sounds great: Stream unlimited music without any data charges. The offer from T-Mobile includes popular services such as Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora. These apps will no longer count against your data plan, the company announced...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesYou just bought a brand-new TV and now all your movies look overly smoothed out and artificial. WTF?
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesFor billions of years, single-celled creatures had the planet to themselves, floating through the oceans in solitary bliss. Some microorganisms attempted multicellular arrangements, forming small sheets or filaments of cells. But these v...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThe Renaissance began in Italy in the 1400s. Newly made scientific discoveries meant that painters were depicting the human form with more anatomical accuracy, but their subjects were often intensely religious, Catholic figures. You woul...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TechCrunchOMG Lasers! A group of MIT students have built a scanning system that allows 3D printers to restart prints after a failure. Why is this important? Because there is nothing more frustrating than running a long print job only to have...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Digital TrendsGoogle's ambitious, high-tech barge project has hit stormy waters, and the company has sold the vessel moored in Portland for scrap. This puts an end to hopes we'd be testing out the latest Google toys aboard in the near future. The post...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsPrime minister David Cameron invited young technology companies to pitch at No. 10 Downing Street for the first time ever yesterday in a move that suggests the politician is keen to be seen supporting the tech start-up community.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsWe love it when the stuff of sci-fi makes its way into the real world, and that means this week has been particularly cheery: we can pretend to be Master Chief, start saving for our driverless cars and prepare to control the Xbox One wit...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EngadgetWhen it comes to the right to take the mickey out of famous songs, movies or books, the UK has always cast envious eyes toward the US. That's because a Brit couldn't parody something unless they'd been given direct permission from the cr...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from GizmodoThese days, there's no need to stuff drugs up your butt to get them into a prison—you can just drop them in from your trusty drone. Unless you crash it, that is. Read more...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsGraphics, gameplay and new controls Next-generation consoles aren't backward compatible, so gamers have had to keep their older systems plugged in order to play games like The Last of Us and Grand Theft Auto 5. The Last of Us Remastered ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comSolCalendar, one of the names to feature in our 12 best Android calendar apps roundup last year, has been updated to bring an easier-to-use UI and new functionality to the platform. The company said the new UI makes it easier to get aro...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandGerman security researchers claim to have identified a serious vulnerability in the fundamental security of USB devices. The SR Labs team is preparing a presentation at Black Hat next week in which they will demonstrate the “BadUSB...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comLocals are the best source of knowledge when it comes to travel tips, and as tourists increasingly turn to online resources to orientate themselves in a new place, their advice becomes even more invaluable. For example, Airbnb recently t...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comDespite support for Windows XP finally ending three months ago, the ancient OS has only now fallen below the 25 percent market share mark. To add to the bad news for Microsoft, after only nine full months of availability, its latest oper...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from CNET NewsThis update to Microsoft's mobile operating system brings a slew of new features.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EngadgetIs the thought that you might end up running out of juice in the middle of nowhere keeping you from buying an electric vehicle? Tesla wants to assuage those fears (in hopes that you'll get one of its EVs, of course) by laying out its pla...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comAnother hot summer month has passed, and we hope that our readers have had a chance to spend some great time outdoors enjoying warm sun and fresh air. On the news side, we’ve got you covered — here is a round-up of the most significant n...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Digital TrendsVerizon has launched the Kyocera Brigadier, its latest rugged smartphone, which stands out thanks to a sapphire crystal screen, making it almost scratch proof, and tough enough for even the harshest environments. The post Super tough, sa...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comThe growth of internet access and smartphone sales in Asia is turning the continent into fertile ground for social networks. But while growing a user base in Asia is one thing, making money is a stiffer challenge. Asia has been the large...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from GizmodoBetween the net neutrality debate and the Comcast/TWC merger, high-speed Internet access is getting more attention than ever. A lot of that attention is negative, and rightly so: Internet access providers, especially certain very large o...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsResearchers in Denmark have broken the record for the high-speed transmission of data across a fibre-optic cable. Using a new type of optical fibre supplied by Japanese telecoms company NTT, the High-Speed Optical Communications (HSOC) t...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Slashdotcoop0030 (263345) writes Adafruit held a 2014 Raspberry Pi Photography contest that has completed with the winners selected. You can see the winning photographs as well as all of the entries. Andrew Mulholland, using a Raspberry Pi power...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TechmemeDeepa Seetharaman / Reuters : Amazon quickens push into tough local services market — (Reuters) - Seattle audio and video technician Todd Mueller showed up last year for what might have been a routine job except for on...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from VentureBeat
The small, southern city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, boasts Internet speeds up to a whopping gigabit per second, thanks to a local municipal fiber internet network. -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsThe internet of things (IoT) and the advances its brought to machine-to-machine (M2M) communication continues to be a hot topic in tech circles. Why's that? Well, not only does IoT represent a burgeoning market segment in itself, it is a...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsHow to make an iPhone invisible: 1 Imagine a smartphone that remains "cloaked" until its owner whispers a pass phrase. It's an incredible concept, but could it be that the ultimate smartphone security feature is invisibility? If ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TechCrunchUK Prime Minister David Cameron played host to the first ever tech startup pitch event at his residence yesterday, entertaining 10 high-growth tech companies, venture capitalists, angel investors and invited guests on a hot Summer&...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsIt may be one of the biggest new tech brands on the planet, but we're hoping it's safely mounted on a helmet as GoPro goes through its first rocky patch . The company spent a whopping $34.7 million (£20.5m, $AU37m) on research and develo...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comSky has announced that users of its Roku-made £10 streaming NOW TV box can now download a YouTube app for the device via the Roku Channel Store for the first time. While it’s not a big update, the addition is significant; the NOW TV boxe...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsEarly Android Wear adopters might have tried out music recognition app EchoWear, but let's be honest: it's not quite Shazam, is it? But the best-known music matching service is looking at Google's wearable OS, hinting that we may see an ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandFacebook nemesis Max Schrems is fed up with what he sees as the ineffectiveness of the Irish data protection regulator, so he's launched a mega-suit in his home country of Austria. Sore points include PRISM, Graph Search and general non-...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from GizmodoNor, for that matter, will wanting to get fit make you fit. No, getting fit will make you fit, and you don't necessarily need a fitness tracker or an iWatch or any other wearable to do that. Just sayin'. [ Joy of Tech ] Read more...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EngadgetAuto-correct fails can be pretty hilarious, but if you'd rather avoid them altogether (boo!) maybe a litigious phone case's second coming is up your alley. See, earlier this year Ryan Seacrest's iPhone accessory company, Typo, found itse...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsIntroduction and design The Netgear R7000 Nighthawk is a router that squeezes as much as possible onto the specification list. With a reasonably high price of £165 (US$184, AU$255), it's a high-end model, and it comes with a 1GHz dual-co...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Following in the footsteps of the NBA, which introduced player tracking technology in every one of its arenas for the 2013-14 season, the NFL has announced its own player tracking system. Unlike the NBA system provided by Stats LLC, whic... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from GizmodoOne of Google's giant barges, which has been sat in Portland Harbor since last October and was planned to be an invite-only showroom , is being scrapped. Read more...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsIntroduction and fixes 1 - 3 There's a lot to like about Chromebooks: they're lightweight, start in seconds, have amazing battery life and of course are dirt cheap. But the platform has problems, too. There's a shortage of quality apps, ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Digital TrendsVerizon has launched the $400 LG G Vista, a mid-range, big-screen smartphone with the look of the G3 flagship phone, but without its headline specs, including the Quad HD screen. The post The 5.7-inch, $400 LG G Vista is on sale now thro...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from SlashdotJason Koebler (3528235) writes To help people overcome drug addiction, researchers at the University of Houston's Graduate School of Social Work are building hyper-realistic virtual worlds to recreate situations that trigger cravings for...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
After yesterday's relatively sober and serious look at Erik Buell's next Great American Sportsbike , it's time to have a little fun. Here's our video review of the EBR 1190RX... Continue Reading Video Road Test: EBR 1190RX - return of th... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyPeople who use wearable gadgets to monitor their health or activity can be tracked with only $70 (£40) of hardware, research suggests.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyBBC Click presenter Marc Cieslak discusses the growing number of actors starring in video games.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - "Hundreds" of Chinese employees at Microsoft Corp's Nokia phone business protested on Friday against mass layoffs that the U.S. tech company announced last month, according to an employee present and pictures posted o...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsGoogle has revealed the pains of complying with Europe's right to be forgotten ruling in a letter to European data watchdogs.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsGoogle's mystery barge is being dismantled and service as a potential invite-only showroom is no longer on the cards, according to reports.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp said it expected revenue from Chinese smartphone makers to increase fivefold in the six months to September after a jump in smartphone panel orders helped boost operating profit by 55 percent in the f...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsAs far as I can see, the future of Windows Phone is that it will eventually be replaced by Android. In fact – and I don't make bold predictions lightly – I can't see a future where Microsoft doesn't pull the plug on Windows Phone in the ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsBungie has recently revealed that there will be soft level cap for 20 within the Bungie Destiny game launching next month. However there are way to go beyond this soft cap by gaining experience in the form of Motes of Light. The Motes of...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsThe guys over at iFixit have managed to get their handset on an Oculus Rift 2 Development Kit , and as usual they have taken the device apart. The original device was taken apart last year, and now we get to find out what is inside this ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NPR Topics: TechnologyFor months, U.S. officials have said secret data from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was affecting the way terrorists communicate. A Massachusetts company says it has found proof.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsCisco builds out its storage lineup as the company creates a complete data center arsenal that's integrated and a potential threat to partners.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BetaNews
Windows 9 can’t come soon enough for Microsoft, as Windows 8.x continues to lose market share, according to the latest usage data from Net Applications. Last month I reported that in June Windows 8.x had gone into reverse gear, losing ma... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsJust over 4 months ago Microsoft launched their Office for iPad which finally provided iOS users with a way to natively use Microsoft application on their Apple iPad devices. Since its launched millions have downloaded the Office for iPa...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsUS Homeland Security has warned businesses to stay on their guard against a newly-detected strain of point-of-sale malware.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BetaNews
Many companies use Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments to enable their employees to work with mobile devices or from a home office. With VDI, employees remotely access hosted solutions and work securely on corporate servers... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsSony has today launched a new action camera they have created in the form of the Sony HDR-AS20 which joins the already available HDR-AS100V and HDR-AS30V action cameras. The latest addition to the Sony rugged camera range features a high...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsGamers looking forward to the launch of the next generation game of the Assassins Creed franchise in the form of Assassin’s Creed Unity, which is set to be released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC later this year on October 28th ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsECS has this week unveiled a new addition to their range of mini PC systems in the form of the new LIVA mini PC kit which is now equipped with 64GB of internal storage, doubling that of the previous model. The LIVA mini PC kit features a...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsMakerBot has launched MakerBot Europe in order to pave the way for desktop 3D printing beyond the United States.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyOnce defiant about alleged spying on Senate staffers, CIA director apologizes to top senators
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BetaNews
Facebook is teaming up with mobile operators in Africa in order to bring the Internet to millions of people without online access. The project, which is being headed up by an organization called Internet.org , is starting in Zambia and c... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsSome 78 percent of Singaporeans shop online at least once a month, but more than half at 57 percent are concerned about their financial details falling into the wrong hands, reveals survey on e-commerce security.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsStartup industry body StartupAUS has called on the Australian federal government to create a 'central innovation agency' in order to help drive local innovation and technology R&D.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsApple is in the middle of taking over Beats Audio and Beats Music in a deal with is worth $3 billion, and now it looks like some of the Beats staff will be loosing their jobs, as part of the Apple Beats deal. Beats have a total of 700 em...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsYou might remember the Typo keyboard accessory for the iPhone. It is basically a keyboard attachment for the iPhone that allows iPhone users to type using physical keys instead of an onscreen keyboard. The first version of the Typo looke...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsSamsung recently launched the Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A in South Korea, the handset is expected to launch in Europe as the Samsung Galaxy F or Galaxy S5 Prime. Now a device with the model number SM-G901, which is rumored to be the Samsung ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsVerizon LG G Pad 8.3 LTE launch with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean as its operating system out of the box. If you’re rocking the Verizon variant of the tablet, you may want to take a look at your notifications area. Verizon is rolling o...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsThe Australian government has quietly asked industry to comment on a proposal that would drop the need for agencies to get approval from two ministers to offshore government data.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsToday Amazon announced that its Appstore is now available in 41 more territories across Asia, Africa and Oceania, which brings the total number of markets where the company is offering apps to 236. So now they are covering a much wider p...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsSINGAPORE (Reuters) - P2i, a technology spin-off from Britain's Ministry of Defence, is looking to raise as much as 10 million pounds ($17 million) from Singapore investors as it readies the launch of its "Dunkable" or waterproof technol...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Geeky-GadgetsWe’ve heard rumors that OnePlus, the company behind OnePlus One, may launch a smartwatch in the near future. Recently, the two co-founders held an AMA on Reddit, and dropped hints about an upcoming smartwatch from the company. Rece...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsA project to map 100,000 DNA sequences will make Britain the world leader in genetic research on cancer, David Cameron says.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsTORONTO August 1 (Reuters) - Canada's three biggest telecom firms, keen to keep shareholders happy with fat dividends, are breaking into businesses ranging from banking to healthcare to drive growth as they run out of expansion options a...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyInterior Department, water suppliers pitch in $11M to try to conserve Colorado River basin
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsLisa Gray, National Australia Bank's (NAB) group executive of enterprise services and transformation, has decided to leave the company following an executive reshuffle made by the group's new CEO, Andrew Thorburn.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsBuilding a large temporary network in the middle of a remote field for a music festival presents some unique challenges to the Splendour in the Grass organisers.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsThe Internet of things presents some significant security challenges that need to be dealt with now before big problems arise.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsMost mobile malware activity is focused on the Android OS, but Apple's iOS is not nearly as impregnable as many imagine.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsFord, alongside the CTIA Super Mobility Week Sept. 8, will host an app developer conference and hackathon, a first for the auto industry.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsThe company launches a partner program with ARM, AMD and others to develop a common platform for servers powered by ARM-based chips.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from BetaNews
Nerds love things that are "limited edition". Once we hear that something will be in limited supply, we just have to have it. If a company released a limited edition Game of Thrones Pet Rock for $500, it would probably sell out. Make the... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsManufacturer of silicon chip fabrication technology says it is facing a cyclical downturn and suffering under a high New Zealand dollar.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsAustralian 3D printing technology developer 3D Group has struck a deal that will see it mount a reverse takeover of publicly-listed brewing company Oz Brewing in order to list on the ASX by December.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsAn app launched in Zambia by Facebook will provide access to a number of online services for free, in an attempt by Internet.org to lift the country's internet penetration rate above 15 percent.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest NewsCopyright holders must be prepared to sue mums and dads and students for copyright infringement in order for any deterrence scheme to be effective, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyNY judge, ruling against Microsoft, says US warrant can access email stored in Ireland
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsGoogle answers a lengthy questionnaire about the implementation of the "right to be forgotten" ruling and the complications that come with it.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsWe'd place a bet that Samsung will be bringing the Galaxy Note 4 to the marketplace rather soon, but what's this other device that uses "new materials" and "new displays?"
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsEuropean officials appear to be laying the groundwork for a case against Google's Android mobile operating system.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsU.S. officials want access to emails stored in Microsoft's Dublin data center. Today, they got one step closer.
