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As Omate’s TrueSmart cellular watch approaches its first anniversary, the startup decided to let its previous Kickstarter backers in on its next project. According to the teaser update, September 1st will see the launch of a fashion-oriented wearable dubbed the Omate X, which features a sleeke

Snapchat has earned the favor of the coveted teen demographic, but can it turn engagement into money? The Wall Street Journal reports that the startup is in talks to launch Snapchat Discovery, a service that would partner with media companies and brands to serve video content and ads. Sources told t

While it may not be a full suit of high-tech gadgetry like Iron Man dons, the US Navy is set to test exoskeletons from Lockheed Martin. In the first contract to employs the company’s strength-boosting garb for industrial use, two FORTIS exoskeletons will help carry heavy loads for the trial pe

Earlier this year both Apple and Google showed off some new software. Google lifted the wraps off of Android Auto which essentially projects a mobile device’s Android experience to an in-dash display. Apple unveiled CarPlay which brings its iOS experience to vehicles. Two of the biggest car manufact

The world of wearable technology is fast expanding in every direction, although it remains to be seen just how far gizmos like a smartwatch or fitness band will be able to go. Lenovo, a name that is more often than not associated with computers and notebooks, is now linked to a potential wearable ba

A handful of companies are working in the U.S. to bring gigabit internet to households in various parts of the country however it is still not widespread. Google is one of those companies. The rollout of its Fiber gigabit internet service has been slow and is limited to few cities. Folks in Cincinna

Verizon comes out ahead of rivals AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint in nearly every category of performance in a new study of the U.S. wireless market by RootMetrics. However, the report says T-Mobile made noticeable improvements in larger cities, based on the wireless company’s ongoing investments in m

The Bureau of Meteorology has boosted the link between its two data centers from 80 gigabits per second to 200Gbps as it prepares for the installation of a new supercomputer. The federal budget included an undisclosed amount of funding for the new supercomputer. The supercomputer, to be used for wea

For the last several years, Roku has sold a series of devices that you connect to your TV to stream a wide range of content from thousands of different apps. Roku is getting embedded directly into TVs that will go on sale in the coming months from consumer electronics manufacturers Hisense and TCL.

Tanks are Goliaths. They’re covered with layers and layers of thick armor for protection, which makes them huge and slow-moving. Now, DARPA wants to change that. For the last 100 years, the ability of weapons to punch holes through thick armor has advanced faster than the armor’s ability

Good things come to those who wait, or so that is how the saying goes. If you have been pretty smug about your LG G3 smartphone for the leaps and bounds that it made in terms of its user interface thanks to multiple screen images and the like, then the rest of the world, at […]

There will probably never be such a thing as “the perfect” lock, but a new Bluetooth padlock seems to come pretty close. Noke is a padlock that, once paired with your iOS or Android device, automatically unlocks when it senses you’re near. Although we know about devices like the Au

Is there life on Mars? Curiosity didn’t find any, but that’s hardly a conclusive answer. In fact, a handful of NASA scientists claim that the US space agency is looking for life in all the wrong places. The Mars rover explored the red planet’s dry, irradiated surface: if the planet

In April and June, one of the largest hospital networks in the US was hacked. Community Health Systems says that cyber attacks originating in China stole the personal details of 4.5 million patients including names, addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates and Social Security numbers. In a regulato

We all know that blocking attacks from accessing data centers is not effective. Just think of the snooping government agencies have been able to do. Now companies have to acknowledge that activity and find better ways to deal with threats. GuardiCore, a data center security startup, has developed te

Tumblr is an immense sea of valuable, publicly available user data just waiting to be tapped by marketers interested in how the cool internet teens use their products, just search “Starbucks” to see what I mean.Tumblr, it seems, is also ready to help corporations cash in on its users’ impeccably cur

Ad tech company AppNexus continues to roll up financing, announcing today new funding of $60 million. In a post today on the company’s blog, CEO and co-founder Brian O’Kelley said his company is pursuing its “White Whale” of “making the Internet better by making advertising better.” The New York Cit

Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that is downright blasphemous to experienced users. Some users are seeing a few tweets in their timelines that have merely been favorited by accounts they follow. That’s a massive change: Twitter has fundamentally only shown tweets and retweets poste

If you’re a parent whose kids are old enough to own a phone, you’ll know how frustrating it can be when they choose to ignore your calls. A new Android app developed by a mother hopes to curb that silent treatment by rendering smartphones almost unusable until they are finally answered. Sharon Stand

Motorola is all set to unveil its Moto 360 watch at a press event in Chicago on September 4th, but it looks like Best Buy has let the cat out of the bag. A product page for the Android Wear smartwatch has mistakenly gone live on Best Buy’s mobile site, and it lists the device […]

3D printers are a technology with tons of potential applications, we just have to dream them up. Polish 3D printer manufacturer Omni3D decided to dream big with its wind power project. The team hopes to create an easily portable wind turbine that can pump out up to 300 watts of energy. Not enough po

A new app called Normal might help you finally get to the bottom of your iPhone’s disappointing battery life. Unlike any other iPhone battery tracking app, Normal uses crowdsourced data from everyone using the app to provide personal advice on how to improve your battery. Once installed, Normal star

Now that we know that the Moto X+1 will arrive during Motorola’s press event in Chicago on September 4th, we can turn our attention to what the device will look like and how it will perform. A new leak today has the former covered as it shows the front panel of the X+1 and reveals […]

Nexus 7 tablets will soon be a common sight on Virgin America planes, but unlike other airlines that lend passengers tablets for entertainment, you can only use them if you’re part the crew. On a VA plane, you can easily order grub by pressing a special “food button” on an in-fligh

Totally ignoring Asimov’s laws of robotics, a team of computer scientists at Harvard University have crafted a swarm of over one thousand diabolical robots, programmed only for evil. Despite the fact that each of the Kilobots is only about the size of a quarter, their great numbers and advanced coor

Word to the wise, kids: do not muck around with your phone while driving. Some of you probably won’t be able to help it, but a team from Santa Catarina State University in Brazil just might have the solution, according to MIT Technology Review, they’ve cooked up an in-car hardware/softwa

Looking for the perfect chaise longue? That’s no easy feat even on the best days, but the process is made even trickier since stores rarely seem to have their full collections on display. That’s precisely the problem a San Francisco startup called VizeraLabs is trying to tackle, and its

Glympse, an app that lets you share your current location with specific people over a pre-determined period of time, is now supported on the Pebble smartwatch. Android and iOS users with the Glympse app can now bring up and share their whereabouts from their wrist. The implementation also supports m

What’s the quickest way to lose 5 pounds? Why Photoshop, of course. If you’ve picked up a magazine anytime in the last 15 years, you’ve probably been treated to a digitally manipulated parody of the human form. The practice of photoshopping flaws out of models, celebrities and musi

The soccer World Cup was a huge success for Twitter and its video offshoot Vine, but Premier League chiefs in the UK are promising a crackdown on users who attempt to share goals and highlights on social media. Broadcasting rights to the competition currently command billions of dollars but those fi

The cable companies have been far more excited about selling broadband than selling video for a long time now. One cable exec, Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, even suggested that his company might get out of the video business altogether. Why? Because while broadband is a high-margin, low-competition b

As more and more hardware these days end up with the ”smart” prefix in their naming convention, it is only a matter of time before every other smart device will be “talking” to one another. Samsung might have cast an eye on the smart house, which could be why they decided to shell out $200 […

Intel and SMS Audio have teamed up to create a new category of “fitness wearables,” or smart headphones with sensors that can measure your heart rate. The audio headphones will carry the lifestyle brand of entertainer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The wearables combine technology, fitness metrics, and f

Singapore’s personal data watchdog is investigating cellphone maker Xiaomi following a user’s complaint that the company is giving out user data to telephone marketers. The user claims he received marketing calls from overseas after acquiring the phone, according to the Wall Street Journal. Earlier

With the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 due to land in a few weeks’ time at the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, the anticipation surrounding it is high. The leaks have been pouring out in recent days, including our first look at the handset, and retailers are getting in on the act now. Erafone, an [

It may be simple for brands to create their own web storefronts today, but doing the same for mobile is a far more difficult task. With that challenge in mind, David Tisch, an angel investor at Box Group and former TechStars NY managing director, set out to create Spring, a mobile marketplace that g

Yahoo Inc. is relaunching its small business e-commerce product with Yahoo Stores, which aims to help anyone sell anything online. The offering comes as other digital marketplace companies also jockey for users. Yahoo Small Business head Amit Kumar told me that the process allows people to build a s

Networking platform and event app Bizzabo has raised $2.5 million from existing and new investors including Kaedan Capital, AfterDox, super angel Gigi Levy and new investors OurCrowd and Massa Group. Bizzabo has raised $4 million to date. The new funding will allow the company to bring new functiona

What a ride it has been for Lenovo of late. Last quarter, the company unseated HP to sell the most computers globally and on Thursday the company said it’s selling even more mobile devices helped largely by a doubling of phone sales in the last three months. Alongside the 14.5 million PCs Lenovo mov

Networking hardware giant Cisco Systems is slimming down. Again. After another quarter of pallid growth, the company will cut up to 6,000 employees, or about 8 percent of its worldwide workforce in its current first fiscal 2015 quarter. The company forecast flat growth for the upcoming quarter. CEO