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Pandora's new Premieres station will let you listen to new albums up to a week before they launch.
Pandora's new Premieres station will let you listen to new albums up to a week before they launch. Starting with new work from John Fogerty and Laura Marling, the station will highlight pre-release music right up until it drops, and won't be subject to the same limitations as the normal Pandora player. [FastCompany]
gizmodo.com (49 minutes ago)
Laptop Week Review: The 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display
If I could only have one MacBook (which is usually the case for your average laptop-buyer), this is the one I'd pick, without hesitation. Fewer issues than its 15-inch cousin, which pioneered the Retina line, combined with a much lighter design with a smaller desktop footprint for a display that can still give you...
techcrunch.com (51 minutes ago)
This Radio-Book Was The Future of Education
New technologies often go through a honeymoon phase where educators hold them up as the futuristic savior of learning. Today teachers can't get enough of those Kindles, iPads and MOOCs which promise to radically change education for generations to come. But this line of thinking has a long history. In the 1930s some...
gizmodo.com (1 hour ago)
A Quadcopter's-Eye View Of The Costa Concordia Shipwreck
The wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia in early 2012 resulted in 32 deaths and the destruction of the ship, resulting in a $300 million salvage operation that may be the most expensive in history. A pair of quadcopters equipped with cameras capture the sad vessel and the massive operation to remove it from the...
gizmodo.com (1 hour ago)
Microsoft Confirms That The Xbox One Will Come With An Incredibly Sensitive New Kinect
The Xbox One was just unveiled at Microsoft's Redmond campus and, true to multiple reports that circulated before the official reveal, the new console will indeed come with a Kinect. And what a Kinect it is! The rumors of a vastly improved Kinect sensor array were right on the money -- this next-generation model is...
techcrunch.com (2 hours ago)
WHAT Steven Spielberg Is Making a Live-Action Halo Series (Updating)
We thought we knew a lot about what was coming at today's Xbox One announcement (and we did!). But there's at least one phenomenal surprise that the internet was able to keep it's mouth shut about: A new installment of the Halo franchise is making its way to a living room near you-but in the form of a live action...
gizmodo.com (3 hours ago)
Xbox One Instant Switching Turns The Console Into A Voice-Powered Set Top Box With Live TV...
Now leading the pack in gaming consoles, Microsoft's future growth lies outside the gaming sphere. We'll surely see tons of games at E3 in a few weeks, but at the big reveal of the Xbox One, the company chose to focus on non-gaming features, such as media streaming and Skype conversations. But what makes streaming...
techcrunch.com (3 hours ago)
From Green Light to Boot-Up: Behind the Scenes of Xbox One’s Development
All photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
wired.com (3 hours ago)
Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want
As part of WIRED's exclusive look at the development and capabilities of the Xbox One, we present a detailed look at the hardware. (Well, the exterior of it, at least. We've got another gallery for the insides.) Can you spot ...
wired.com (3 hours ago)
Exclusive First Look at Xbox One
Wired's exclusive look at Microsoft's next-gen console, Xbox One.
wired.com (3 hours ago)
The New Kinect Is So Sensitive It Can Read Your Heartbeat
Microsoft claims that the new Kinect is so sensitive that it can see the slightest movement of your wrists and fingers, the tension of your muscles and, amazingly enough, even your heartbeat. So next time you exercise in front of the TV, it will be able to tell how much you are really working out. But I bet there...
gizmodo.com (3 hours ago)
tit for tat | Microsoft: ‘Google Refused to Work With Us on Our YouTube App’
A week after Google sent Microsoft a cease and desist letter to remove its YouTube Windows Phone app, Microsoft makes a public response.
wired.com (4 hours ago)
Meta, The World's First Entry-Level VR Glasses, Hires The Father Of Wearable Computing As An Advisor
The Meta1 is a pair of virtual reality goggles that perform some very unique and useful tricks. While they are still in beta stage, the glasses are coupled with a Kinect-like camera to sense objects in real space and allow users to interact with virtual worlds with the swipe of their hand.
techcrunch.com (4 hours ago)
Meet Agent, A Smartwatch With A Second Processor For Minimizing Power Consumption And Wireless...
Smart watches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recently year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers in San Francisco which I attended last week, there's at least a passionate niche audience for the things. So it isn't surprising to see them continue to pop up on...
techcrunch.com (5 hours ago)
NASA's Next 3D Printing Frontier Is... Pizza?
Forget guns, here’s a 3D printing development that can’t be overhyped and pretty much anyone with the munchies can get behind. NASA’s sinking a chunk of change into 3D printing food-starting with the humble pizza-in a new project aimed at evolving the future of food for both space and back here on Earth. It’s not...
gizmodo.com (9 hours ago)
Coffee Essentials for the Perfect Cup
Welcome to the Programmable World Connected Sensors Watch the Earth’s Murmurs and Translate Into Data The Boat That Could Sink America’s Cup 1/ For drip brewing, your grounds should be the size of coarse sea salt. A burr grinder like ...
wired.com (10 hours ago)
Flickr Shows Signs of Life With Slick Web Redesign and Killer Android App
Flickr wants to remind you that it’s a photo site. “Everything that we’ve done in this new redesign has been about putting the photo front and center,” says Flickr VP Brett Wayn. For a photo site, Flickr looks like it ...
wired.com (23 hours ago)
AT&T Is Finally Going to Let Everyone Video Chat Over Data
AT&T has caught a lot of flak for being excruciatingly picky about what apps can do video chat over data on what kind of plans. It's been equal parts annoying and confusing for everyone involved. But now, the carrier is about to simplify it by letting everyone do everything by the end of this year. Finally. The...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
Welcome To Laptop Week
Laptops are the new desktops. While you can buy a solid tower PC for about $500, this price represents how little manufacturers care about the desktop world. Barring a few huge gaming rigs, laptops are where it's at. We have been arguably remiss in avoiding formal laptop reviews and so we're trying to remedy that...
techcrunch.com (1 day ago)
The App That Will Put Google’s Music Subscription Service on Your iPhone
Google's subscription music service debuted last week as an Android-only affair. But one third-party developer has quickly compiled an iOS app enabling Apple devices to listen in.
wired.com (1 day ago)
How Telemedicine Has Already Surpassed Our Earliest Predictions
Today, remotely operated robot doctors are zipping around intensive care units while smartphone apps beam vital signs from ambulance to hospital. Telemedicine is the wave of the future, but you might be surprised to learn that it has been for nearly a century. The biggest hurdle for diagnosing a patient from a...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
This Is What it Looks Like to Get Eaten by a Grizzly Bear
This video shows the last thing you’ll see if you tangle with a grizzly. Warning: It’s gross. A GoPro camera captured the inside of a bear’s mouth as it tried to eat the camera. (Technically it was captured by the ...
wired.com (1 day ago)
Review: Twine’s Tiny Box Lets Your Kitchen Cabinets Talk to the Internet
An inexpensive, easy-to-grok introduction to the Internet of Things, the fully programmable Twine alerts you to all the changes and happenings inside your home.
wired.com (1 day ago)
Neverware Raises $1M To Keep Schools' Computers Quick Like Lightning
There is no sadder moment than the one where you realize it’s time to upgrade your computer. The load times are too slow, the battery no longer holds a charge, and it’s just too damn heavy. Now, imagine a school with dozens of outdated computers, and think just how bad that moment of realization can really be....
techcrunch.com (1 day ago)
Dish Network’s Apps Alone Might Be Enough to Make You Subscribe
Now access to Dish's complete On Demand library, previously a perk only for iPad users, is available for iPhones as well as Android phones and tablets.
wired.com (1 day ago)
Bacteria Never Looked So Beautiful
Think of bacteria, and you probably think of illness, infection, and other unpleasantries. But this picture shows that they have a beautiful side after all. A contender in the Art of Science competition run by Princeton University, this picture depicts how the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus moves over time. To create...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
Google Glass Year In Review
It’s been a little over a year since Google started teasing something it called “Project Glass.” The futuristic, wearable computer that would change the way that you interact with the world was nothing more than a series of rumors for months before it was “formally introduced” in April 2012. Not known for hardware...
techcrunch.com (1 day ago)
It Takes An Earworm To Memorize The Periodic Table
Fair warning, this video is an illustrated version of the periodic table set to The Can-Can. There are consequences to watching. But hopefully one of them is that you learn all the chemical elements in order without even trying. Which would be a convenient, if incredibly nerdy, bar trick to bust out sometime. Even...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
An Interview With Dr. Joshua Pearce Of Printers For Peace
Joshua Pearce, PhD, is a researcher at Michigan Tech who rearches open source and low-impact solutions to engineering problems. He is also the founder of the Printers For Peace contest, an effort to bring together clever 3D-printed ideas that have loftier aims. You can win one of two 3D printers if you submit the...
techcrunch.com (1 day ago)
A 6,000-Mile Panorama Of The Earth Is Pretty Beast
In April NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission took a huge panorama. From 438 miles above the Earth, the satellite shot a 6,000-mile-long, 120-mile-wide strip of planet from Russia to South Africa. It is aptly named ‘The Long Swath.’ Oh and it's 19.06 gigapixels. Since the Landsat moves at 17,000 miles an hour it...
gizmodo.com (2 days ago)
