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Robots are starting to be more and more pervasive in our world, never mind that they have long ruled assembly and inspection lines in factories. Japan has a couple of robot museum guides who look so lifelike, they might have just taken a huge leap into the Uncanny Valley. Apart from that, we also ha

Amazon is bringing new features to its smart TV box. You can now use an Amazon Fire TV to stream music to your TV. The feature will let you access any MP3 songs or albums you’ve purchased from Amazon as well as Amazon AutoRip content which provides you with an MP3 version of physical albums [&hellip

It goes without saying that smartphones these days are getting larger sized screens, especially among the flagship models, despite having a thinner and ever thinner chassis. Of course, there is another aspect to the smartphone’s display that takes off in the same direction as that of a slim TV – nar

Twitter on Monday confirmed an earlier report from Re/Code that it has acquired mobile ad firm TapCommerce. The company focuses on mobile app “retargeting,” which, as far as we understand it, is a method of using trends gathered by an app’s users to entice those users to come back to the application

The world of SSDs is not a static one, which is a good thing, since this means that consumers like you and I will be able to have a wider array of choices and options to pick from in the event that we would like to upgrade our computers to a higher level of performance. […]

After Spotify acquired The Echo Nest earlier this year, rival music streaming service Rdio had to ditch the music data platform as it didn’t want to share data with competitors. Now Rdio has acquired curation service TastemakerX to boost music discovery for its listeners, coming up against Spotify w

After months of hype and reportedly millions of pre-orders, the security-focused Blackphone started shipping to early pre-order customers on Monday.The Android-based smartphone comes packed with apps for encrypted voice, video, and text messaging, as well as more control over the onboard information

Sony Corporation’s TV division has been in the red for the better part of the decade but the company is now hopeful that it will be profitable this year. Back in March Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai told investors that despite rumors on the contrary the company’s TV division was not up for sale. Instead Sony

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is the South Korean tech company’s flagship phone at the moment. It sports some pretty high-end hardware which also means that it has an expensive price tag to match. Now if you don’t really need all that fancy hardware and just want a smartphone, you might be interested to lea

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will force mobile operators to unlock handsets so they can function in other mobile operator networks, The Japan Times reports, citing unnamed sources. The ministry plan to submit the plan to a panel and map out details by the end of the fiscal year.

More European mobile operators should offer free international roaming, following the example set by U.S. operator T-Mobile, a European Commission vice president said Monday. After enforcing a series of reductions in voice and data roaming charges across the European Union over the last four years,

ConnecTV said it will amp up its social TV capabilities with the acquisition of TweetTV, an analytics and TV guidance startup that helps viewers discover what’s trending on TV in real-time. ConnecTV will stitch those capabilities into its own social TV video network and a free mobile app that enable

Without doubt, smart light bulbs are cool. This is because it allows users to control their lights remotely as well as apply different moods to the lighting, so if you wanted something romantic, all you’d have to do is adjust it from your smartphone via an accompanying app. Basically it’s an introdu

Keeping control of your finances can be a challenge at the best of times. Keeping control of your finances as a child is something that probably doesn’t even enter your mind. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean that kids shouldn’t have financial tools at their disposal if they are inclined to keep an eye

Landing the car-sized Curiosity rover on Mars was difficult enough, but what about when you want to go bigger? What about when you want to carry people to Mars? To test landing a larger payload on the Red Planet, NASA yesterday sent a flying saucer-like craft called the Low Density Supersonic Decele

Many of us had hoped that Motorola would talk in detail about the much awaited Moto 360 smartwatch at Google I/O 2014 but that didn’t happen. Even though other Android Wear smartwatches from LG and Samsung went live for pre-order, it was said that the Moto 360 will be made available later this summe

This aught to make a few people happy. It looks like the LG G3 is going to be heading to T-Mobile on July 16th. Now remember that this is just a report and nothing is official just yet, so it’s important to treat it as such. However, Tmonews’ inside sources are usually spot on, so […]

Digital ID cards are still a rarity in most countries, but they’re a staple of everyday life in Estonia. Locals use them for everything from e-voting to buying mass transit tickets. You currently have to live in the country to take advantage of these cards, however, and that’s creating a

Back in May, Activision Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick revealed that the publisher will invest $500 million in Bungie’s upcoming shooter, Destiny. Since then, that figure has been associated with the development and marketing budget of the game, but Bungie recently said it isn’t accurate. Resp

Robots can quickly and easily learn new things through crowdsourcing, says a new study done by a University of Washington research team. In other words, robots that use the internet to look up information are smarter. “We’re trying to create a method for a robot to seek help from the whole world whe

For some, each new school year brought a about a specific kind of dilemma. No, we aren’t talking about picking out what to wear on the first day, we mean choosing a new Trapper Keeper. To stoke those flames of indecision and nostalgia, the folks at Kensington have teamed up with Mead, the team

French lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday with the goal of helping small bookstores. The bill prohibits large online companies — including Amazon — from offering free delivery on discounted books. The law has been unofficially deemed the “anti-Amazon” law, though it does not specifically target the

Not only will LG offer the G3, which we believe is among the best devices currently available. But the carrier is also going to introduce something known as the LG G Vista, which looks identical to the G3. That’s the word coming down the pipeline from Evleaks, though it’s not really clear how the tw

That didn’t take long. Now that the US Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo’s antenna-to-cloud TV service is violating copyright, the company is telling customers that it will “pause” service as of 11:30AM Eastern; after that, it’s lights-out for both live and recorded st

The perpetually locked phone, while secure, slightly annoys. Am I right? Now you can get a wearable “tattoo” that syncs with a Moto X phone and allows you to unlock your phone with a quick tap. The nickel-sized stickers comes from Vivalink, part of Motorola’s ATAP lab, which was fully ab

Cisco announced that it has acquired cloud platform startup Assemblage, as the company continues its focus on enterprise collaboration. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Assemblage makes a cloud-based collaboration platform that can be used on a web browser without the need for downloa

There are some instances in life where there is no trial run – when the time arrives, one has to bite the bullet and go through it. One example would be giving birth – you can have all the theoretical knowledge, but the day baby wants to make an exit from mother’s womb, then all […]

SRI International, the team behind the technology that later became Apple’s Siri voice assistant feature in iOS, has announced a new product that it says “aims to improve the consumer experience on mobile devices through intelligent conversation.” Kasisto will be a similar intelligent voice assistan

HP’s legal battle with shareholders stemming from its troubled $11.1 billion acquisition of the British software firm Autonomy is reportedly winding down. According to Reuters, HP shareholders have agreed to drop all claims against current and former executives at HP, including CEO Meg Whitman

Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of Austin’s movie house chain Alamo Drafthouse, has an excellent eye for good films. Most recently, they released the home invasion thriller Borgman, a visually stunning update on the fable that borders on the darkest comedy. This seems to be the Drafthouse Fil

European citizens could receive some of the same rights to privacy as Americans in the future, if new proposals are adopted. US Attorney General Eric Holder advised to European leaders in Athens, Greece on Wednesday that the Obama administration is working on legislation that would provide EU reside

This morning the Director of National Intelligence released a report detailing its use of various legal authorities in 2013 to execute surveillance, and the number of targets impacted by each method. The move was hinted at in March of this year, when NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett said that the go

Coming this July, The International 4 will be the biggest and most lucrative e-sports tournament the world’s ever witnessed. The annual Dota 2 championship already surpassed all previous records when its prize pool crossed the $6 million mark in May, but fans have kept adding to the chest of t

Since the beginning, the commercial growth of renewable energy has been a laborious, often painful matter of government pushes, tax incentives, and campaigning for greater awareness. In Germany, however, the energy market is on the cusp of evolving to the next step: An era in which the sun and the w

No one wants to watch a boring video. Luckily, computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have created a program that promises to cut the “boring” out automatically. Called LiveLight, the algorithm was the brainchild of Eric P. Xing, professor of machine learning, and Bin Zhao, a

Intel has opened an innovation center in Swindon, England that will develop new technologies for the Internet of Things. IoT Ignition Labs Swindon will see Intel collaborating with both established and early-stage British companies, in areas such as smart buildings, retail, and transport. “This igni

Amazon is offering a number of premium Android applications worth $100 for free for two days via the Amazon Appstore for Android. This promotional offer is valid for June 27 and June 28, as part of the free app of the day programme. The offer includes games like The Room Two, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, [

Now, getting a robot into the baking game might not sound likely, despite the fact that some of them are now able to receive simple natural language commands and scoop you some ice cream. The Rotimatic is not so much a robot as suggested, but rather, a smart flatbread making machine. This smart kitc

Rainforests are full of exotic animals and plants. But one group is using technology to keep a check on particularly dangerous creatures — humans. San Francisco startup Rainforest Connection is recycling old smartphones into devices that detect deforestation and alert authorities to illegal logging

Sometimes when we experience slow speeds on our mobile devices and we call into customer service, they usually recommend we perform speedtests to find out if the issue could be on our end or their end. Naturally the sending and receiving of data during a speedtest will consume data. It might not be