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
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
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.
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.