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Iowa, state of corn fields, soybeans and Slipknot, is working on a huge high-tech project: a driver’s license app residents can install on their smartphones. While convenient, it does come with a number of risks, so the state’s Department of Transportation will give it features to confir
Many educational robots tend to be complex and expensive, or simple and cheap. Where’s the middle ground for students who want to build sophisticated things, but don’t want to pay a fortune just to get started? iRobot thinks it can reach that happy balance with its new Create 2 robot. It
Amazon Prime Instant, the packaged streaming video service that’s included with Amazon Prime memberships, now officially supports 4K video streaming. Of course, you’ll need to have a 4K TV or a 4K display in order to take advantage of that content, though more and more products are shipping with dis
Intel is bringing all its assets to bear on the Internet of Things, a hot topic for nearly all IT vendors but one that’s especially critical to big chip makers. While Intel would like to see its low-power chips used in sensors, wearables and other hardware that will ship in huge numbers if the indus
The US may never have used its microwave pain gun in combat, but that isn’t stopping China from exploring the concept of non-lethal force. Local manufacturer Poly has unveiled the WB-1, a millimeter-wave weapon that heats the water under your skin to deliver intense agony without injury. It cu
Many details surrounding the Nexus 6 were leaked in the months leading up to the smartphone’s launch in late October, although one oft-rumored tech specification that proved to be absent was a fingerprint scanner akin to Touch ID on the iPhone. The initial reports calling for a fingerprint scanner w
When it comes to shopping for a bra, that can be a rather challenging thing, since it is a rarity to find a bra that fits you perfectly – right down to the millimeter. Having said that, we have also heard of items such as smart bras in the past, but why not come up […]
Dubbed “Coder in Chief,” Barack Obama is being described as the first US president to dabble in computer programming. After kicking off the 2014 Computer Science Education Week with a call to code, Obama joined an “Hour of Code” event, an international campaign that aims to s
Samsung launched a radical shift in solid-state storage with its 3D V-NAND technology, which the South Korean electronics giant developed for a decade before beginning mass production last year. To date, drives using the technique, which involves stacking flash memory chips vertically instead of the
It seems that every generation of new smartphones tries to create the lightest, thinnest devices we’ve ever seen. That said, there comes a point where it makes no sense to try to make smartphones any thinner and it looks like we might have finally reached that tipping point with the new Oppo R5 Andr
While Amazon deals with regulatory hurdles for its drone-based rapid delivery service, it’s apparently testing an option that’s a bit more, well, human in the meantime. The shopping juggernaut is holding time-trials for bike messengers in New York, according to The Wall Street Journal, w
Now things are starting to make sense. The latest leak of data stolen from Sony Pictures in a recent hack appears to be the email archives of two top executives at the company. It also reveals that the hackers asked those executives for money to prevent the destructive attack. Apparently, the execs
