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With our smartphones in tow, we usually have access to data, whether it be 3G or 4G LTE, while we drive. It’s probably not the best idea to be using your phones while you drive, which is why Audi and AT&T have recently teamed up and announced a new plan in which they will be offering 4G [&hellip

Detailed by ABC News recently, 2-year-old Bentley Toone of Tucson, Arizona came to the aid of his mother last week after she was seriously injured during an animal attack. While attempting to break up a fight between her dog and a foster dog the family was caring for, Laura Toone was bitten on the h

Samsung is partnering with a number of services to provide free trials and subscriptions to owners of its latest Galaxy S5 flagship. While the usual 50GB of Dropbox storage is included, Samsung is also supplying between three and 12 months of Evernote Premium, and a 12-month subscription to Bloomber

It’s a new year, and a whole new SXSW, but some things don’t change. Thanks to an endless stream of parties with open bars, the warm nights, and a large population of web-curious visitors descending on Austin, the tradition of the SXSW hookup lives on. And Down wants to help keep that tradition aliv

Samsung is reportedly preparing for a smart home control interface that uses your smart TV to recognize basic hand gestures, directed at the objects you actually want to control. So, for example, it would allow you to point at a lamp to turn it off or on, or to other nearby objects to affect them in

A U.S. secret surveillance court has denied a bid by the U.S. government to hold onto phone records for more than five years, handing a rare win for civil liberties and privacy advocates. But because the motion was denied “without prejudice,” the Justice Dept. is allowed to file a new mo

Are all drones peaceful? Not so on the battlefield, although the likes of the Amazon Prime Air program would be welcome by folks with open arms. The CUPID drone might sound as though it is oozing with love and will do its bit to send that engagement ring over to the table, but it actually packs a wh

Robots might not be in line to take over the world from us humans but this does not mean that they are not biding their time. Robots are still far from edging out a human especially in team sports, but in a one-on-one face off like a game of ping pong, humans might have met […]

The OnePlus One smartphone, which is touted to arrive in the near future for under the $400 mark, has yet to make an official debut, but this does not mean that it has not gone through any benchmarking processes just yet. The OnePlus One has appeared on the AnTuTu benchmark, where one of the more pr

Samsung has a pretty interesting strategy in which they tend to release a flagship phone which is then followed up by variants of it that could appeal to different users. We’ve seen it with the Samsung Galaxy S4 where variants such as the Galaxy S4 Active, Galaxy S4 Zoom, and Galaxy S4 mini. It seem

IBM is utterly focused on big data and analytics as its future growth engines, according to its annual report published over the weekend. But the company has hedged a little on the future of its semiconductor and hardware businesses. Rometty claims IBM has “built the world’s broadest and deepest cap

With all of the talk surrounding smartphones and tablets, it’s sometimes easy to forget that desktops still occupy most of our working days. Fujitsu hasn’t forgotten them, however, and is wheeling out a pair of all-in-one units that’ll accompany you on the 9-to-5. The Esprimo X923

While fingerprint sensors on smartphones are starting to become more common, especially with the iPhone 5s and the Samsung Galaxy S5 picking up on the trend again, this kind of technology has actually be integrated into other consumer electronics in the past, such as laptops. For the most part finge

Is there life on Mars? NASA is still trying to find out, discovering evidence of water in a Martian meteorite just over a week ago. But though scientists are happy to investigate meteorites and live vicariously through robotic rovers roaming the Red Planet, they’re really itching to get their

At an event in Austin, Texas during SXSW today, music video service Vevo revealed plans to offer a mobile SDK that will allow third-party app developers to incorporate its content. Michael Cerda, Vevo’s SVP of Product and Technology, said that the he has received many requests from companies to be a

MSI is showing off a thin and light laptop with an Intel Haswell processor, next-gen NVIDIA graphics, and a 15.6 pixel display with support for resolutions up to 2880 x 1620 pixels. That’s not a resolution you see often, and according to Engadget, it’s something MSI is calling “3K.” But it should he

SXSW is about to get even more interesting than normal. Secret, the app which lets you share anonymously amongst friends and friends of friends, has announced a web feed of SXSW ‘secrets’ that are posted from there or mention it. You can check it out at secret.ly/sxsw. We’ll have more info in just a

Thinking there could be life on one of Jupiter’s moons, NASA scientists are working on a plan to send robots to begin studying it. Jim Green, NASA’s planetary science chief, said there’s no reason to think there isn’t life on Europa, the sixth-closest moon to the planet Jupit

At SXSW, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia spoke about the company’s recent legal troubles and the continued growth and expansion of the service. If you’re not familiar with Aereo, I would definitely recommend you check out our complete review of the service, but in short it’s a standalone TV and DVR service f

We’re closing in fast on the official reveal date for the all new HTC One and with March 25th still more than 2 weeks ahead of us, we were wondering just how much more of the device would leak before its unveiling. We already received an interesting 12-minute hands-on of the phone last week, along w

Bitcoin has made about as many headlines -- for good reasons and bad -- as Osama Bin Laden did when American forces raided his compound and killed him....

The light microscope changed science and medicine forever, but in the 400-plus years since it was invented, this crucial piece of equipment has gotten pretty expensive and fragile. Manu Prakash and his team have designed a brilliant solution—an origami microscope that costs less than

Let the carrier wars continue. AT&T has just announced that it is dropping the price of its two-gigabyte Mobile Share Value plan by $15 in total. AT&T’s 2GB plan currently costs $55 as a base price. That’s dropping down $15 to $40, which represents most of the savings one’s

Neil deGrasse Tyson took the stage at SXSW on March 8 to discuss science, technology, and education. During his keynote session, Tyson touched on topics ranging from space exploration to popular misconceptions about science and the natural world. Tyson has been an outspoken proponent of space explor

Shares of Coupons.com gained 88% in their first day of trading Friday, as the investor shopping spree for IPOs continues. The company, which provides digital coupons for consumers, saw its shares jump $14 to close at $30 apiece, a strong showing especially considering the IPO price range had already

Workable, a startup founded in Athens, Greece, that has developed a cloud-based recruitment platform for SMEs, has today confirmed a new investment of $1.5 million led by Greylock IL, the Israel/UK-based affiliate of Greylock Partners, an early investor in LinkedIn which now counts LinkedIn co-found

Yahoo’s growth appears to be in some way dependent on the widespread acquisition and subsequent annihilation of some of the Internet’s most promising startups, and no one can figure out why. ReadWrite reports that since Marissa Mayer took over in July 2012, 31 of 38 startup companies acquired by the

Imagine a smartphone app that encourages heavy drinking. The more you drink, the more games and activities the app offers. You can drunk dial strangers who also have the app. You can see where other drunk people are near you, and even how drunk they are. Just plug in your handy breathalyzer into a s

500px launched its Prime photo-licensing marketplace to help photographers sell their images and ultimately earn a decent wage. The service was announced last month, but for its official release 500px has slipped in a huge change related to how much photographers are paid. Instead of 30%, the compan

It hardly comes as a surprise to many that BlackBerry isn’t doing so hot at the moment. We’re not sure what it is, it could be that more people prefer iOS and Android compared to the BlackBerry platform, it could be the hardware, it could also be the ecosystem in which there aren’t as many […

Forget about frictionless sharing. People are turning to anonymous messaging apps to speak freely. We take a look at a few of the more popular mobile apps for secret sharing. Secret is all the buzz in Silicon Valley. Founded by former Google and Square employees, the app has a reputation of spreadin

Texas Instruments has built a new chipset for pico projectors. The 0.3″ HD TRP DLP® Pico™ chipset is TI’s smallest, most efficient chipset, capable of generating 720p HD displays and can fit inside of compact devices, such as tablets or smartphones. TI is a major producer of pico projection technolo

Samsung is taking on Apple’s iTunes Radio, as well as Pandora, Spotify, and a host of other companies in the competitive streaming music business, but it picked an innocuous name to do it. Milk Music, launched Friday and available now in the Google Play store, is Samsung’s latest foray i

In the years since learning that her daughter had been bullied on the Internet, Sandy Reeves has made a point of following social media trends and tracking new apps where teens can hurl insults at one another. She knows them all. Or at least she thought she did. The Hanover Park mother was surprised

Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton will step down from his position at the PlayStation company at the end of the month. “This is a result of a mutual agreement between Mr. Tretton and SCEA not to renew their contractual relationship,” Sony said in a statement. Sony Netw

T-Mobile CEO John Legere loves to talk trash about his rivals’ networks but recent studies have indicated that T-Mobile has some work to do if it wants to match the network quality of Verizon and AT&T. Thankfully for Legere, he has a sugar daddy in the form of parent company Deutsche Telekom tha

Even though CES 2014 is long gone, some of the stuff announced there is just now starting to become available for purchase. Case in point: Sharp’s Quattron+ lineup, a series of 2014 AQUOS televisions featuring the latest and greatest, including a revamped SmartCentral platform. But that’

Amazon has set up a new division selling 3-D printed products in partnership with five companies. The Cincinnati Business Courier broke the news yesterday about what it calls a new pilot program to sell 3-D-printed products in four categories: toys, home accessories and decor items, jewelry and fash

Samsung unveiled three new wearables during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, including its Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches, and the Gear Fit fitness band. We don’t expect any of those to be super cheap, though, probably costing right around $200 and up. That leaves room for some expa

So this is what it’s come to. The Dating Ring, a Y Combinator-incubated, group matchmaking startup that recently expanded from New York to San Francisco, is running a Crowdtilt campaign with the stated goal of flying women from NYC to SF. Asked about the campaign’s origins, Dating Ring CEO Lauren Ka