iPad 5 & Gold iPad mini 2 Renders Show Touch ID
Attention is now on the iPad 5 and iPad mini 2, Apple’s new iPad models we expect to see later this year. We’ve already seen numerous iPad 5 leaks showing the new iPad mini inspired design, and today we get a look at what the iPad 5 could look like with a So far…
European Space Agency Wants to Send a Snake Robot to Mars
Snakes are crafty animals. They can be found slithering in the desert, swimming in the ocean and even flying in the air. But how would they deal with another planet altogether? Researchers at the SINTEF Research Institute in Norway and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology aren’t planning…
How Apple’s A7 64-bit chip gives iOS plenty of headroom for the future
Much has been made of Apple’s A7 processor’s 64-bit support, and if it’s built around ARM’s latest architecture as that seems to imply, then there’s a lot there’s a lot more to the next generation Apple processor than we’re seeing. Because when you drill down into the silicon, ARM’s v8…
GestureWorks Gameplay to add custom controls to ‘hundreds’ of Windows 8 games
San Francisco, CA GestureWorks Gameplay software was revealed today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF2013) in San Francisco. GestureWorks Gameplay is a revolutionary new way of interacting with popular PC games. Gameplay software for Windows 8 lets gamers use and build their own Virtual Controllers for touch, which are overlaid GestureWorks…
Tech review: New TiVo is slick but cable hassles a drawback
You can get a digital video recorder from your cable company. Want to watch something on Netflix or Hulu Plus? There’s Apple TV or Roku. And SlingBox lets you access your home-TV service from anywhere over the Internet. Now there’s a single device that does all of the above: the…
Free iOS 7 upgrade could hurt iPhones sales
Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple talks about the features of the new iOS 7 during the keynote address of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, June 10, 2013 in San Francisco. ERIC RISBERG ASSOCIATED PRESS CUPERTINO, Calif. One of the best things about Apples latest iPhones is the…
This giant Windows 8 touchscreen PC has a 70-inch monitor
Windows 8 combines the fun of a tablet with the productivity of a PC, says InTouch. Which must mean a whole lot of fun is bound up in the massive 1080p INF7011, a 70-inch, touch-enabled Windows PC. The massive PC, dubbed BigTouch, will likely hang on a wall and be used…
Twitter drawing on lessons learned from Facebook IPO
It may be the most hotly anticipated initial public stock offering since Facebook Inc. But Twitter Inc. is doing all it can to distance itself from the Facebook fiasco, which has become a case study on how not to take your company public. “Certainly the crew at Twitter has had…
Beware of fast-talking WiFi speed claims
Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9Open the Internet Browser Click Tools> Internet Options>Privacy>Advanced Check Override automatic cookie handling For First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies click Accept Click OK and OK Enabling Cookies in FirefoxOpen the Firefox browser Click Tools>Options>Privacy<Use custom settings for history Check…
What Would a City Based On Your Foursquare Data Look Like?
Most cities evolved based on centuries of complex economic and cultural forces. But what would it look like if that process were reversed? That’s the concept behind Generating Utopia, a program that turns a user’s location-based data into a sprawling, Rio de Janeiro-style cityscape. German interaction designer Stefan Wagner wrote…
