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Nest will launch its smart thermostat and smoke detector in parts of Europe in late September. During a presentation at the IFA 2014 tech conference in Berlin on Saturday, Nest — which was acquired by Google for $3 billion in 2013 — announced it will roll out its products to France, the Netherlands,

Do you remember Ringly? The idea behind it was that people would use a vibrating ring to alert you about incoming calls, emails or text messages. If you can imagine that same concept, albeit in a smaller and less gendered package, then you have the starting point for the MOTA Smart Ring. Silicon Val

So far most, if not all, the smartwatches we’ve seen are watches that have been reimagined by tech companies. There are some pretty nice designs by Motorola with the Moto 360, and if the rumors are true, Apple’s iWatch is expected to be quite a looker as well. However it seems that Intel has a [&hel

Uh-oh, it looks like T-Mobile USA and Huawei have recently gotten into a little spat that has resulted in the carrier suing the Chinese company. According to a report from The Seattle Times, T-Mobile alleges that Huawei has stolen the design and parts of a robot that the carrier has referred to as “

Speakers are something that is meant to be heard rather than be looked at, although there are some out there who want their speakers to not only sound good, but look good as well, which might explain why companies such as Bose and Bang & Olufsen pride themselves in their technology as well as th

When we think of “sports”, our minds usually go to more traditional activities which have been defined as sports in the past, such as football, basketball, cricket, swimming, badminton, and etc. However in the recent years, the concept of eSports is starting to catch on where playing video games cou

Yahoo has acquired the startup Luminate, a service that focuses on advertising on top of online images, as the Internet giant tries to give its once-mighty ad business a jolt. The service shut down earlier this week, and terms of the deal were not disclosed. TechCrunch earlier on Friday reported the

For a long time now, the gradually growing collection of 4K content needed to fill out all those glorious pixels of 4K/UHD (Ultra High Definition) TVs has been promised to land in your living room from the Web. Netflix, Amazon, Sony, and a few other services have helped pioneer the compression of th

4K is so last week. Most of us haven’t added one of those displays as part of our daily workflow yet, and Dell’s 5K option is on the way. The UltraSharp 27 Ultra HD 5K monitor claims a world’s first with said resolution. In terms of dimensions, that’s 5,120 x 2,880 which cloc

Intel’s next-generation chip family, the Core M, will arrive in the real world starting next month as Acer, Asus, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Toshiba start shipping portable devices built around the power-efficient processor. Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s personal comput

Samsung today announced the release of a new Tizen Software Development Kit for the recently introduced Gear S smartwatch. The SDK will let app developers tap into network, call and location based APIs, as well as notifications and the device’s various sensors. While other companies are investing he

Sprint is expanding its 4G LTE footprint through roaming partnerships it has signed with several rural and regional wireless operators. On Friday, it announced that it has struck deals with 15 new rural wireless carrier partners, which will help it cover an additional 4 million potential customers w

Four big tech companies embroiled in a Silicon Valley hiring controversy are appealing a judge’s decision to reject a settlement that would have seen them pay $325 million to settle a class action case brought engineers and other employees. According to Reuters, the companies — Apple, Google, Adobe

Don’t call the Motorola Hint a Bluetooth headset. It makes everyone at Motorola wince. They’d rather you call it a wireless earbud, or, in a brilliant slip of the tongue from Motorola design chief Jim Wicks, an “earable.” The Hint is a tiny, Bluetooth-enabled earbud that is d

Several large U.S. tech firms have pledged to “go slow” for a day in order to protest a pending federal decision that could add fast and slow lanes to the Internet. But fear not, the slowdown campaign won’t actually curb your surfing speeds. Rather, companies such as Kickstarter, R

BlizzCon is only a couple of months away and the Virtual Ticket is now available for purchase. The price of the virtual pass is $39.99 and grants access to a livestream of the developer panels, exclusive interviews, live contests hosted by Chris Hardwick, the closing ceremony, and various in-game it

Bridj, the on-demand private bus startup, said Thursday that it has raised $4 million in funding to help it expand beyond Greater Boston. The Cambridge company also said that it hired Gabe Klein, formerly a vice president at Zipcar, as its chief operating officer. Klein previously served as Chicago’

AmazonFresh, the grocery delivery service run by the retail giant in selected US west coast cities, has started a trial program which sees the US Postal Service shipping its items. The 60-day program, which started in August, tasks the USPS with delivering food items, toiletries, and other everyday

Hillary Clinton predicted Thursday the United States will become the leading 21st century “superpower” in clean energy if the nation confronts the “most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.” “We shouldn’t have to state the obvious &#82

Rocket Internet has made a major move ahead of its upcoming IPO in Germany after announcing that it will merge five of its global e-commerce services into one single business. Dafiti (Latin America), Jabong (India), Lamoda (Russia and CIS), Namshi (Middle East), and Zalora (Southeast Asia and Austra

Sony-loving PlayStation 4 owners have some fancy new toys to covet, with the announcement that the company’s freshly announced Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact, and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact all support the gaming console’s Remote Play feature. You can effectively turn your Xperia Z3 into an untethered m

It’s on. Well, according to Huawei at least. The Chinese manufacturer has just announced its 6-inch Ascend Mate7 to compete with the other big man on campus, the Galaxy Note 4. Huawei promises that the Ascend Mate7 is its most powerful phablet to date, with an octa-core Huawei Kirin 925 processor. W

The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator has a 15 MHz processor, 24 kilobytes of RAM, and a 96×64 black and white screen. It has an Amazon list price of $190. The Kindle Fire HD has a 1.5 GHz processor, 8GB of memory, and a 1280×800 color screen. Amazon list price: $140. And yet the TI-84 keeps

Tablet sales may be leveling off in mature markets like Europe and the US but manufacturers seem unfazed by the trend. Take Lenovo, for example. In addition to showcasing a brand new 17-inch gaming notebook and a budget gaming PC, the company announced a new Android tablet during IFA that’s drawing

Nest is about to turn all the data its thousands of Nest Protect owners have been delivering into some tangible new features. Since launching the $99 smart home smoke and carbon monoxide detector late last year, a follow-up to its popular Learning Thermostat, Nest, which is owned by Google, has been

About a week before Apple agreed to buy Beats for $3 billion, one of the company’s earliest employees filed a lawsuit against the headphone-maker, accusing it of cutting him and others out of potentially millions in royalties. That man is Steven Lamar who, in his lawsuit, claims that he came u

When it’s not producing flagship phones like the One (M8) or the Butterfly 2, HTC is flooding the rest of the market with several Desire models. These devices vary anywhere from mid-range to low-end, and everywhere in-between. This week, the company is launching another model called the Desire

Isis, the US mobile wallet platform that is backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, decided that they have had enough of the Islamic State and its brutal regime over in the Middle East, so much so that a rebranding exercise is in store in order to avoid any kind of misconception and to distance th

The Rdio music streaming service is preparing to release an updated version of its mobile app later today will place a new focus on its free “stations” feature as competitors like Spotify, Pandora, and Apple’s one-two punch of iTunes Radio and Beats Music crank up the pressure on the service. Rdio c

This is the MICA, short for “My Intelligent Communication Accessory”, Intel’s first luxury smart bracelet aimed specifically at women. It looks nothing like a smartwatch but it has the guts of one. Details are still scant, Intel says that it will reveal more in October, but here&#8

Recently, Stephen Colbert lampooned gadgets that track what you drink and other seemingly inane metrics. But the trend may have just found its ideal market. The Chinese search giant Baidu just introduced a pair of “smart chopsticks” designed to alert users to the presence of “gutte

If there is one criticism that Nintendo faces over its products is the fact that they are region locked. This means that if you wanted to play a game, you’d have to wait for it to arrive for your region before you could, which means that any idea you’ve had about importing games from the […]

The 4chan forums have managed to gain a pretty bad reputation for themselves over the years, no thanks to the endless trolling of posts, weird and horrible images, and so on. However it seems that in light of the recent celebrity nude photo scandal, which originated on 4chan’s forum, it seems that t

It seems that back in 2006, Verizon might have used information they had on their customers to create targeted marketing campaigns without informing them of their right to opt out from these campaigns. However it seems that it was only in 2013 that the FCC had discovered Verizon’s violation, which w

Samsung’s Galaxy is growing today, as the company has revealed two new Note smartphones and a co-branded Oculus virtual reality headset at simultaneous press events in New York City, Beijing, and here in Berlin at the IFA 2014 show. The new Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge are both Andro

On September 3, as scheduled, Samsung officially unveiled their newest flagship device, the Galaxy Note 4. With the newest device, just about every nook and cranny has been upgraded from the previous generation handset, including the processor under the hood, the display, and the camera. Samsung off

Comcast Corporation is bragging of widespread support for its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable, but the victory chant is drowning out an important detail: Some of that support from public officials has followed big campaign contributions from Comcast executives. In a blog post on t

There has been quite a number of speculation going around that Google could actually introduce a 5.9” Nexus X, simply for the fact that the company intend to have various options at various sizes . There is some common sense behind this idea, as when the next generation Nexus goes on sale, it would

A research team from the University of Tokyo has revealed one of their latest creations, which is touted to be one of the fastest two-legged robots in the world. Just how fast is this little critter able to go? Well, we are looking at speeds of up to 4.2 kilometers per hour, which can be […]

Baidu is investing about $10 million in IndoorAtlas to expand mapping services inside buildings and shopping centers as it steps up competition to e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., according to a person familiar with the matter. The investment by China’s largest Web-search service values