So simple to use, their biggest competitor is the yellow sticky-notes, said Google today when they introduced their new note-taking software, Google Keep. Having been a user of the note-taking app, Evernote for several years now and Pocket, recently, I have yet to fall in love with either one. … [Read more...]
The New News Feed — For those of you that check Facebook every day (read: everyone), expect your life to change a bit in the upcoming days as the company today unveiled its newly designed New News Feed feature. It's been six years since News Feed was introduced and two since it saw any major … [Read more...]
Google has sent out a call to the world. For $1,500 and what it considers a compelling Tweet, you can be the first on your block to wear Google Glass — a computer you wear on your face that looks a bit like eyeglasses. Glass lets users take “pictures or record video without using their hands, … [Read more...]
Transparent cell phone 'will happen near the end of 2013' promises Taiwan-based company Polytron Technologies. The company has already begun marketing a transparent multi-touch. The company's prototype uses what they call Switchable Glass technology. That's a conductive OLED using liquid crystal … [Read more...]
In scenes reminiscent of the Hollywood movie Armageddon, a meteor shower has lit up the skies over Russia, with the shock-waves blowing out windows and injuring at least 250 people. People in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions reported seeing "burning objects" in the sky, which also … [Read more...]
An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool will race past the Earth on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size. It will pass closer even than the geosynchronous satellites that orbit the Earth, but there is no risk of … [Read more...]
Need a place to squirrel away your digital stash? Box is giving 50GB of online storage free to new users. Box will let you sync across both Mac and PC, and it has apps for Android, iOS, Outlook, BlackBerry PlayBook, and a bunch of other platforms listed here. To get yours, just head over to … [Read more...]
Photos of what may be Apple's new iPhone surfaced online Monday. Posted by a Chinese technology site, the images allegedly show the iPhone 5s already going into production. Nearly identical to the iPhone 5, the handset shown in the photos has an updated vibration motor (some have complained … [Read more...]
The Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies using modern technology. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this week with a medical imaging center to complete a CT scan on Tjeby (CHEH-bee), its 4,000-year-old mummy, in … [Read more...]
Twitter confirmed Friday that it had become the latest victim in a number of high-profile cyber-attacks against media companies, saying that hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. The social media giant said in a blog posting … [Read more...]
To learn the actual meanings of a book it is essential to translate it in the native language or the language you understand easily. Here is a perfect solution for the book readers – a pen that can translate while you read. Seems a very attractive way to read a book in your native … [Read more...]
In 2012 we witnessed the arrival of the Cube, the world's first home 3D printer; the Raspberry Pi, a computer that costs just £30; and Microsoft's first tablet, the Surface. So what new tech are we looking forward to testing next year? Here’s our pick of the gadgets we’re most excited about in … [Read more...]
