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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 the brand. The GetGlue brand name is going away and the new platform, tvtag “launches Tues from i.TV, with 70 TV netw
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 with BeWifi, a device that gathers bandwidth from local Wi-Fi routers. What if, when you were up at a r
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 that the groups it is tracking make up the majority of the sophisticated threats attacking enterpris
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 temperature variations. Scientists say “Sensory Fiction” will increase immersion in the story and hopefully slow
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’ is currently in very early stages, but the developers aim to provide a service sim
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 the company before the app officially launched to the public. Vine hit the top of Apple’s App Store charts in June, wh
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 obstacles. Similar to the way a bat or dolphin uses sound waves, LiDAR bounces
CNN’s social outlets and even one of its blogs were briefly compromised by hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army on Thursday. SEA has performed superficial but highly visible hacks of various press outlets over the last year, always posting provocative material related to the ongoing conflic
Qualcomm announced Thursday the acquisition of 1,400 patents and applications from HP, specifically from the computing giant’s failed Palm smartphones and tablets division. Broken down, the total number of patents accounts for about 1,000 patents and 400 patents pending that “covers tech
IFTTT, an internet service that lets you connect various devices and apps together using a set of triggers and actions, has long played nice with home products like the Philips Hue lights, the Belkin WeMo Light Switch and the WiThings WiFi Body Scale. Now it’s added one more to the list, and t
Retail giant Walmart is attempting to step up the company’s online shopping footprint by increasing the number of online-only, dedicated distribution centers around the country. Looking for ways to compete more effectively with Amazon, Walmart global e-commerce CEO Neil Ashe mentioned that the compa
A soft, wearable device that mimics the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the lower leg could aid in the rehabilitation of patients with ankle-foot disorders. This is the claim of Yong-Lae Park, an assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked with collaborators at Harvard
