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Barbie has had her fair share of controversies but this may be the first time that the popular children’s toy has been accused of spying. Mattel’s new “Hello Barbie” doll is designed so that it sends recordings of what children say to her to the cloud where voice detection te
Considering that California is one of the world leaders in solar power it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the state is behind a new plan to build a massive solar array on top of wastewater ponds. The project, which will be built in California’s Wine Country, will be built across six lo
Square Order hasn’t even been around for a year yet and Square is already shutting it down. The service enabled users to order and pay for their food before they even arrived at a restaurant which, while an excellent way to save time, wasn’t as successful as Square would have liked. The
There’s no shortage of people spewing their own theories about how the Internet is going to evolve, which we tend to ignore, but when the founder of Drupal, which powers 12% of the top 100,000 websites in the world, talks about his own theory, we stop and listen. According to Drupal founder Dr
Remember a few weeks ago when China figured that if the United States could pressure technology companies to install backdoors in their products for the government to access user data then so could they? Apparently that’s changed and now China has backed away from that legal push, perhaps as a
According to OpenSignal most recent State of LTE report, T-Mobile has the fastest 4G LTE network in the United States with an average of 10Mbps while Verizon was the leader in terms of coverage with 86% of the population covered. On the global playing field, Spain’s Vodafone ES came in with an
Unlocking your account using fingerprints is so yesterday and passwords are practically primordial. The Halifax banking chain in the United Kingdom is working on a new method that’s both more awesome and more secure: your heartbeat. Using a wearable device known as the Nymi band, Halifa can mo
Have you ever said something to Siri that you wouldn’t want other people knowing about? Or how about this, do not want anyone listening to what you say to Siri regardless of what it is that’s said? If the answer is yes then you’ll probably be upset to learn that Apple sends anonymi
We’re on step closer to achieving wireless charging, and I mean true wireless charging, the kind where your smartphone can be anywhere in the room and still be getting juice, thanks to researchers at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. Scientists there have successfully transmitted 1.8
Cable television is dying and there aren’t very many people who are going to mourn its passing. In fact, most of us are probably laughing as it writhes on the ground while Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and Netflix continue to beat the living crap out of it. That metaphor isn’t too far from th
The United States government really wants companies to share information about cyberthreats with each other and the government and a Senate committee has just voted to apprive a controversial bill that encourages companies to do just that. The Senate Intelligence Committee held a meeting in secret a
Xiaomi announced the Mi Note and Mi Note Pro a couple of months ago but the announcement of the successor to the ever-popular Mi 4 has yet to be made. That doesn’t mean that the flagship smartphone, most likely called the Mi 5, won’t be launching this year because, according to GizmoChin
