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I am quite sure that many of us are familiar with the existence of satellite phones, which are touted to be able to offer you a signal regardless of where you are in the world. The thing is, most of the time in the movies, satellite phones do not function as they should – they […]

Well, that didn’t last long. A couple of weeks after Amazon stopped taking pre-orders for Warner Bros. Blu-ray and DVD movies to extract a better pricing arrangement, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the two sides have reached a truce. Swing by Amazon and you’ll once again find

When it comes to winter, one major issue that all building managers have to grapple with would be the issue of heating. Optimizing the heating in a building can be quite a tricky affair, especially when it comes to large spaces including lobbies of huge buildings. This is not the most efficient meth

Wouldn’t it be highly convenient if developers developed a single game that can be run across multiple platforms? Well that’s what Sony tried to do with the PlayStation 3 and the PS Vita, but could that be something Nintendo could be considering for the future as well? While it’s hardly a confirmati

BlackBerry and Porsche have had a working relationship over the past few years. We’ve seen both companies collaborate on mobile devices, like the Porsche Design P’9982 from back in 2013, which is why it is hardly a surprise to learn that BlackBerry could be working on a successor for 2014. A couple

When it comes to gaming in the living room, consoles are currently dominating because that’s usually how it has been all this while. PC gaming, on the other hand, was more or less limited to your room which is not a bad thing, but this is something Valve is hoping to change with its Steam […]

Bungie says that it feels ‘reborn’ after the success of its Destiny alpha on PS4 last week. The short gameplay taster was made available to a select number of PS4 owners who applied for access, resulting in nearly 6.5m games played. “Putting our Alpha out there lit a new kind of fire here at Bungie,

E-Capture R&D has this week unveiled their new creation in the form of the EyesMap tablet which has been designed to provide users with a 3D modelling tablet and application that is capable of creating 3D rendering of objects in real-time. The EyesMap tablet has been designed as a measurement in

A couple of years ago, HTC launched the HTC Butterfly handset. The following year, there were rumors that HTC had planned a sequel called the HTC Butterfly 2 4G. The device has yet to be officially announced, although the closest thing to it being official was the fact that it was spotted on the AnT

Back in the day, we’d buy music by going to the record store, browsing the CDs, trying them out before making our decision. The process is much simpler these days where we don’t even have to leave our house to buy music, or have to go to a music store. We can be riding the […]

Opera has finally released a version of its popular browser for Linux. The Developer version of Opera 24 brings familiar Windows and Mac features to the open source platform and users can get it from the experimental Developer channel. Opera 24 will be an alternative to Chrome and Firefox, which are

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which is funded by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and investor Yuri Milner, just doled out five $3 million awards to cutting edge math projects. The Breakthrough Prizes, there have been two previously, are designed to raise awareness of math and make it

Yes, the British Museum’s interactive mummies exhibit sounds intriguing, but what if preserved corpses aren’t your thing? If you’re in New York, you can instead visit the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, which is slated to tie up an interactive system with their collection when it reop

One man’s meat is another man’s poison, or in another variant, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. The latter certainly rings true where the Waste House is concerned. The Waste House was specially constructed at the University Of Brighton campus, where it will make use of waste materials that

Apparently, Chicago is becoming even more like its Watch Dogs doppelganger than wefirst thought. Researchers are deploying networked, sensor-equipped lamp posts from this July onward to learn how they could help urban planning and safety. They’ll collect environmental data like air quality, no

It has been said many times that a company is able to say what it likes within the confines of law, but where there is no law to regulate a particular viewpoint, customers who think that a company has gone overboard with a particular way of doing or seeing things do have the power to […]

Sound is something that is subjective. Some listeners prefer more emphasis on the bass, while others prefer to stress on the clarity of the sound. Some don’t seem to bother and are perfectly happy using default speakers, as long as they are able to hear sounds coming from it. Now if you fancy yourse

We’ve all taken photos that we shouldn’t have, but do you know what they are? Some might seem quite innocent to you, like a photo of you and your friends having a few drinks at the bar, or maybe doing something silly like riding around in a shopping cart. Innocent enough, right? That might be [&hell

Andreessen Horowitz is betting big on Tanium, a company that lets IT professionals manage hundreds of thousands of devices in real-time. The venture capital firm is investing $90 million in Tanium, co-founder and general partner Marc Andreessen announced on Twitter. The investment values the company

Rather than waiting for Freeview’s launch, SBS has gone live with its new Catch Up TV app. Freeview is in the final phase of testing its new FreeviewPlus Smart TV app, which offers a 7-day onscreen Electronic Program Guide and easy access to online Catch Up TV. The five major broadcasters have

Verizon customers will soon get to have LG G3’s little sister, LG G Vista, after serial tipster @evleaks has recently leaked data about the Korean smartphone-maker’s flagship phone. On Twitter, @evleaks posted, “Remember the VS880 headed to Verizon? Will hit retail as the LG G Vist

Earlier this week Samsung formally announced the Galaxy S5 LTE-A. It has the same build and design as the Galaxy S5 which was released back in April, but the smartphone touts a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor and a Quad HD display. Now we have been hearing for a few weeks now that a premium varian

Over 300,000 servers out of the 600,000 that were vulnerable to Heartbleed are still unpatched two months after the nasty vulnerability in OpenSSL was discovered by a Google engineer. The numbers were announced by security researcher Robert David Graham who found that although half of the 600,00 ser

If you’re developing a hugely successful independent messaging app, you need to stay on your toes while the big names try and cash in on your idea. For Snapchat, that means adding extra features and functions to its app: the recent launch of Stories has proved a hit with users, and the next upgrade

NASA says it will send a new probe meant to understand the nature of mysterious dark energy, which makes up of about three-quarters of the universe and drives its endless expansion. The agency has proposed a Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope mission, which is tentatively scheduled to launch in th

Dirty rotten laptop thieves may want to consider another way to make a quick buck, as there are forces in play that will hopefully render this business model obsolete. Intel has teamed up with Impinj, Technology Solutions UK, and Burnside Digital to create an RFID solution called Wireless Credential

It’s looking more and more likely Google is gearing up to ditch its Nexus line for a new Android Silver program. However, a fresh Android Police report suggests that’s not the case regarding the the tablet space. There indeed appears to be a new Nexus slate on the way, and it’s being made by HTC, [&

Electronic Arts Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson doesn’t think that the glut of free-to-play content on mobile devices and other platforms make it harder to justify $60 console games. “It doesn’t matter how much money you spend, as long as you feel like you got value,” Wilson told T

Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai has vowed to help turn Sony around financially after years of losses at the company’s AGM. In spite of a very negative atmosphere at the shareholder meeting – with Hirai apparently forced to ask hecklers to quiet down on several occasions – the CEO and other key exec

NASA says it has tentative plans in place to launch an Asteroid Redirect Mission robotic spacecraft as early as 2019—that’s, uh, only five years from now. A specific asteroid will be chosen about a year before, with two concepts in mind: one, to capture a very small asteroid in open space and two, t

Mike Ellis’ ForgeRock enterprise identification management and access software outfit took in $30 million in venture cash this week. IAM is crucial for big enterprise systems to function smoothly. IT managers use it to figure out who you are when you log in. It safely manages passwords, fingerprint

The Wii U is struggling to prove its case to gamers in comparison to the PS4 and Xbox One, but in an interview with Kotaku, Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime reaffirmed the company’s commitment to its hardware. Fils-Aime dismissed the idea of starting over in the home spac

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has envisioned some peculiar and diverse projects over the years, from molten metal-filled missiles, all the way to submarines that can fly. Then there’s this new project that aims to create a portable cylinder that can blow up into a nearly impene

Pinterest, the San Francisco darling of crafters and do-it-yourself enthusiasts, has signed a deal to take over a four-story brick warehouse in the heart of San Francisco’s Showplace Square Design District. There’s only one problem: The building is already full. Just as showroom business

Verizon Wireless recently activated its AWS spectrum to offer faster 4G LTE speeds in several markets around the United States, but that’s not enough. A report from the New York Post recently said that Verizon is interested in scooping up even more spectrum from Dish Network. The additional spectrum

Netflix might have finally found an ally in a very contentious market. Reuters reportsthat German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom is in talks with Netflix regarding a potential marketing alliance once the U.S.-based video service begin its international expansion. The news comes via Mana

There are some schools that are lucky and have the necessary budget to provide WiFi throughout the entire school, thus allowing students, staff, and faculty to access the internet effortlessly. Unfortunately the opposite is also true, where some schools simply do not have the money to install WiFi f

Box, the online storage company started by a pair of Mercer Island High School graduates, is seeking additional funding from private equity firm TPG to tide the company over before its initial public offering, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The company filed for its IPO on March 2

Many of us have random, useless crap on our keychains like souvenirs from vacations, pictures of our kids, and other random things. But the new GOkey campaign on Indiegogo is anything but useless – the ultimate keychain features a myriad of useful devices like a phone charger, synching cable, flash

So we know that Bungie and Sony have some kind of special relationship with one another. It was revealed that the game would be getting exclusive content if played on a Sony PlayStation platform, and that the game itself would be exclusive to the PlayStation in Japan, but how far back does Bungie an