Technology 
CuriosityStream, the ‘Netflix of documentaries’ lands on Roku
Roku’s channel lineup just keeps getting bigger: The popular media-streaming platform recently added a channel from CuriosityStream, a Netflix-type SVOD (subscription video on demand) service dedicated to documentaries and other factual content. CuriosityStream is the brainchild of Discovery Channel founder … Continue reading
The UK now gets more power from renewables than coal
Taken together with nuclear power, the country is now generating almost half of its power with low- or no-carbon technologies.
Comcast takes a shot at short-form web videos with Watchable
Comcast has launched its answer to YouTube and Facebook video with Watchable, a website and app for watching short-form online videos. Watchable is available now on the web and as an iPhone app, with no cable TV subscription required. Comcast … Continue reading
Sonos redesigns its Play:5 speaker, announces Trueplay room-tuning software
I couldn’t talk about one of the most exciting products I saw at IFA while I was in Berlin. Sonos had a booth at the show, but you needed an invitation to a secret booth—essentially a studio apartment that Sonos … Continue reading
YouTube’s subscription service will reportedly arrive in October
YouTube seems to have dropped a strong hint that the launch of its long-talked-about subscription offering could be imminent. The streaming site recently sent out an email to content creators, putting them on notice that October 22nd is the last … Continue reading
Sonos debuts speaker that self-EQs based on the room it’s in
Sonos, the venerable multi-room audio company, has just unveiled the Play:5, which unlike most speakers will configure its sound profile to match the room its in automatically.
After 11 years, physicists must rethink gravitational waves
Finding gravitational waves would validate general relativity and give an incredibly powerful tool to cosmology — too bad physicists still can’t seem to find them.
Get ready for organized cybercrime
It’s no digital Cosa Nostra, but it could actually end up perpetrating far more crime around the world.
FCC clarifies third-party router firmware is allowed — but with restrictions
Could new regulations spell the end of DD-WRT? The FCC says no, but evidence on the ground is mixed.
Big, Bigger, Beastly: We road-test three large portable Bluetooth speakers
You’ll find Bluetooth speakers everywhere these days, and at every size and price point. Sure, they might have started life as the poor relations to king-of-the-hill Sonos and Apple’s AirPlay family, but as we found the last time we looked … Continue reading
