Palantir app listens to you play games and feeds you tips
Gaming is about to get a bit more interactive. This "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" app goes by the name of Palantir and it listens to you play the game. This...
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KGI predicts specs for Samsung’s next flagship Galaxy device
KGI Research has issued its predictions for Samsung’s next flagship Galaxy device. The document suggests that the phone will be available in two different configurations. The standard version will come equipped...
Ephemerality is the key to Snapchat’s success
Recently, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel revealed why he turned down a $3 billion cash acquisition offer from Facebook late last year. Spiegel claimed short-term gain wasn’t worth giving up the...
Designer creates impressive, functional iWatch concept
We’ve seen plenty of concept art for Apple’s unannounced iWatch over the past few years. Some have been traditional, others fantastical, but the latest mockup by designer Todd Hamilton might be the most attractive...
Wikipedia will begin storing celebrities’ voices on their pages
Imagine being able to hear a great historical figure's voice. It would add such richness to the facts and dates about her or his life. Starting today, Wikipedia will make that possible...
NYC fire department uses data mining to find potential fire threats
FDNY officials are using a 60-facet algorithm to determine which department-inspected buildings pose the greatest fire threat, fast-tracking fire inspectors to the riskiest buildings. Structures that are old, vacant, or...
EU court rules that Nintendo cannot prevent users from hacking it’s consoles
There has been plenty of discussion lately on how Nintendo can recover from its downward spiral, but none of the potential solutions have included allowing users to hack their consoles. Nevertheless,...
Cyclodrones escort and protect you while you’re riding your bike
Someday in the not-too-distant future, you might take a bike ride with a couple of drones, one flying in front and one in back, to protect you from nearby cars....
New crowdfunding service raises money before development even begins
App.net, the social platform by Dalten Caldwell has launched a new crowdfunding service called Backer that allows companies to ask users for money before committing to build software features. The idea behind Backer is that when a company...
Samsung begins to shift more focus on phablets and tablets
Samsung is already the king of the phablet market, but it appears that the company will increase its stake in that category even more in 2014. Following up on its recent quarterly...
Tumblr updates its terms of service for the first time in two years
Tumblr has updated its terms of service for the first time in two years and released a draft of it on Github before they post it on the site. At the heart of the...
Udacity founder believes massive open online courses can help the economy
The big knock on massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is that while thousands of people may register for them, only a sliver of students ever successfully complete them. MOOC retention...
TV social network GetGlue gets rebranded as tvtag
Not so long ago, the GetGlue brand name and app was considered one of the most promising social TV platforms. Now, their new owners i.TV are continuing to announce radical changes to...
BeWifi lets you utilize the excess bandwidth that your neighbors never use
Imagine being able to utilize all of that excess bandwidth that your neighbors are never going to use. Forunately, Telefonica's research and development team is working to make this possible...
A handful groups were responsible for most of the cyberattacks in 2013
A year-long study by CrowdStrike has identified more than 50 groups of cyber threat actors, blaming groups in China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, and Syria for high profile attacks. CrowdStrike reckons...
MIT researchers create wearable book that simulates emotions
Enjoy reading, but incapable of forming opinions of your own? No problem! Scientists at MIT are developing “Sensory Fiction” books that give you biofeedback in the form of vibrations and...
CoinSeed pours $5 million into Bitcoin hardware
Investment fund CoinSeed, which concentrates on Bitcoin ventures, raised $7.5 million in a month for projects in the cryptocurrency’s space. The fund, based in Las Vegas, hopes to gain $15 million...
Creators of BitCloud want to decentralize the internet
Ambitious developers have revealed a project that aims to create a decentralised internet, where all storing, routing and bandwidth is carried out by nodes run by users. Inspired by Bitcoin, 'the BitCloud'...
Vine celebrates its one year anniversary
One year ago, Vine appeared as an app with a simple concept: Let people take and share six-second video clips on their smartphones. The idea was so popular that Twitter bought...
Ford partners with Stanford and MIT for autonomous car research
Ford will team with MIT and Stanford to try to figure out how to give self-driving, or automated, cars "intuition". The Stanford research will examine how a car's LiDAR infrared sensors could see around...