Technology

Facebook to push real-time stories to the top of News Feed

While Twitter users are wringing their hands over the possibility of an algorithmic timeline, Facebook is doing a 180 and adding more real-time stories to your News Feed. Is anyone else getting whiplash watching these two chase each other back … Continue reading

Mantis Vision hopes to bring Google’s Project Tango tech to the masses

Despite the prevalence of 3D in modern consumer culture—scores of TVs, popular movies, and and Amazon’s Fire Phone, for example—3D technology has a long road to travel before it becomes fully mainstream. That’s where Mantis Vision, the company behind the 3D … Continue reading

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ET deals: 45% off Lenovo IdeaCentre Flex 20 mobile touch PC

In a world that’s increasingly mobile, manufacturers have come up with concepts like this mobile PC to make sure that even desktops aren’t left out of the revolution. With today’s deal, you can now snag the versatile IdeaCentre Flex 20 … Continue reading

Drag queens force Facebook to reevaluate real names

Facebook has always been based on identity. Unlike other social networks, which let you pick pseudonyms and have varying degrees of anonymity, Facebook holds you accountable to reality. You are your name. It’s how people find you. But now the … Continue reading

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Android developers must now list physical address in Play Store

Android developers are being told to list a street address in Google Play if they plan on selling apps or in-app purchases. The new rule can be found in one’s Google Play Developer Console (pictured). Developers are instructed to add … Continue reading

Get to know iOS 8: New Camera tricks and a major overhaul of Photos

Check out what’s new and improved in the Camera and Photos apps for iOS 8.

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Towards infinite-capacity wireless networks, with twisted vortex radio waves

Researchers at the University of Southern California, building on its previous work on infinity-capacity twisted vortex wireless networks, has now adapted its technology to work with radio waves. The previous laser-based technique was only workable over short distances, with minimal … Continue reading

Amazon Fire OS 4 adds ASAP loading, user profiles, family media sharing, and more

Amazon is tacking several more features onto its Fire OS software, both for its new Kindle Fire tablets and previous-generation Kindle Fire HDX tablets. Not much is changing on the surface level, which has the same carousel of recent content … Continue reading

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 launch set for October 17, preorders open this Friday

Jump online tomorrow to get your hands on Samsung’s newest phablet.

Apple updates privacy policy: ‘We sell great products,’ not your data, says Tim Cook

Not even the government can access information on devices running iOS 8.