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Friday, October 5, 2018

D-Wave offers the first public access to a quantum computer

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Outside the crop of construction cranes that now dot Vancouver’s bright, downtown greenways, in a suburban business park that reminds you m...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Mars Rover Curiosity is switching brains so it can fix itself

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When you send something to space, it’s good to have redundancy. Sometimes you want to send two whole duplicate spacecraft just in case — as...

This autonomous spray-painting drone is a 21st-century tagger’s dream

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Whenever I see an overpass or billboard that’s been tagged, I worry about the tagger and the danger they exposed themselves to in order to ...

Chinese chip spying report shows the supply chain remains the ultimate weakness

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Thursday’s explosive story by Bloomberg reveals detailed allegations that the Chinese military embedded tiny chips into servers, which made...

Despite objection, Congress passes bill that lets U.S. authorities shoot down private drones

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U.S. authorities will soon have the authority to shoot down private drones if they are considered a threat — a move decried by civil libert...

Juul files lawsuit against other e-cig makers for patent infringement

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Juul Labs today filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) claiming that several organizations are infri...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime on Wii U ‘stumbles’ and balancing nostalgia with reinvention

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Nintendo is nearing its 130th birthday, and the company is once again in the midst of major changes as it embraces mobile platforms and onl...

The new version of Wi-Fi is called Wi-Fi 6 because rules don’t matter

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The Wi-Fi Alliance, the working group that has long offered such euphonious, IEEE-defined names for Wi-Fi protocols as 802.11ab and 802.11n...

Kobo’s Forma e-reader takes on Kindle Oasis with an asymmetric design and premium price

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Kobo’s latest e-reader is a complete about-face from its anonymous, cheap, and highly practical Clara HD; the Forma is big, expensive, and ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The Freewrite Traveler offers distraction-free writing for the road

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If you’ve ever tried to write something long – a thesis, a book, or a manifesto outlining your disappointment in the modern technocracy and...
Monday, October 1, 2018

The Das Keyboard 5Q adds IoT to your I/O keys

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Just when you thought you were safe from IoT on your keyboard Das Keyboard has come out with the 5Q, a smart keyboard that can send you not...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Two weeks with a $16,000 Hasselblad kit

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For hobbyist photographers like myself, Hasselblad has always been the untouchable luxury brand reserved for high-end professionals. To fil...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Block.Party raises $10M, will adapt Settlers of Catan to its blockchain game console

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Blok.Party, the company the upcoming PlayTable game console, announced today raised $10 million in new funding. It’s also unveiling a big c...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

California cops bust crime ring that nabbed $1M worth of devices from Apple Stores

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Fear not, citizens — the law enforcement apparatus of California has apprehended or is hot on the trail of more than a dozen hardened crimi...

How aerial lidar illuminated a Mayan megalopolis

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Archaeology may not be the most likely place to find the latest in technology — AI and robots are of dubious utility in the painstaking fie...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Soviet camera company Zenit is reborn!

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If you’re familiar with 20th century Soviet camera clones you’ll probably be familiar with Zenit. Created by Krasnogorsky Zavod, the Nikon/...

GoPro’s stock price opens over 10% on stock upgrade

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GoPro’s stock price is on a bit of rebound this morning. The stock opened at $7.36, up from its previous close of $6.62, and is continuing ...

Watch this tiny robot crawl through a wet stomach

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While this video shows a tiny robot from the City University of Hong Kong doing what amounts to a mitzvah, we can all imagine a future in w...

Alexa is reported down across Europe

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Reports are coming in that Amazon’s Alexa service is down in parts of UK, Spain, Germany and Austria. According to Down Detector and Twitte...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

See the new iPhone’s ‘focus pixels’ up close

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The new iPhones have excellent cameras, to be sure. But it’s always good to verify Apple’s breathless on-stage claims with first-hand repor...
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