Technology

MonkeyParking is not going away, even though the San Francisco city attorney earlier this week ordered that the public parking app be shut down. The cease-and-desist demand from the city attorney should not apply because the app lets users communicate … Continue reading →

The team behind the next version of Google’s mobile OS couldn’t stop talking about all the changes coming soon to a device near you.

Somebody is making a game about rocks. Not rock stars. Not the Hard Rock Cafe. Not the Jack Black film School of Rock. Rocks. The kind you find on the ground. Yeah, we’ve definitely entered the slow summer months. This … Continue reading →

Startup Le Tote is hoping to gain an edge in the world of online retail with a Netflix-like shopping platform for women who want to add new pieces to their wardrobes without buying them. The San Francisco-based company offers a … Continue reading →

Is Facebook giving up on its Android launcher efforts? The dissolution of the Facebook Home team would suggest so. According to The New York Times, the Facebook Home team is no longer, and while that doesn’t necessarily mean that the … Continue reading →

First the experts told us that sitting too long at our computer screens can cut our life spans, due to a lack of exercise and gaining weight. But now they’re saying that watching House of Cards from start to finish … Continue reading →

For drivers, much of the software that QNX supplies to carmakers is out of sight—and most likely, out of mind. But one of the major players in the connected car space was front and center at the recent Telematics Detroit … Continue reading →

My previous gaming rig is only two years old, but it’s loud and hot (and thus, even louder), and it’s now summer in New York. I needed a rig that could comfortably fit in a Brooklyn apartment-sized bedroom, and would … Continue reading →

Amazon has always been pretty easy to figure out. With the Kindle family of e-readers, Amazon wanted to sell books. When the Kindle Fire tablet came out, the game plan was to increase its Prime member ranks and sell media. … Continue reading →

Nothing we know about the limits of science and technology tells us that a simple sensor-packed wristband can tell us how many calories we’ve consumed. Yet an obscure company called Healbe says it’s achieved the seemingly impossible. When I heard … Continue reading →