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Microsoft Has Two New Mice for Windows 8 Multitasking
Microsoft has a couple new mice coming out today with some simple features that make using Windows 8 a little bit easier. First up is the more basic model, the Sculpt Mobile Mouse. Available later this month, it costs $30 and features four-way scrolling, meaning you can tilt the scroll wheel up down, left, or...
gizmodo.com (1 hour ago)
Facebook Home Hits The Rocks In Europe, With UK And France Launch Of HTC First Delayed Indefinitely
More signs today the HTC First might also be the last smartphone to ship with Facebook Home pre-installed: UK carrier EE confirmed today that the first Facebook Home phone won't be launching in the UK soon as planned, as Facebook has decided to concentrate its efforts on making improvements to the Home software...
techcrunch.com (3 hours ago)
Microsoft's Cheap Shot At The iPad Actually Points Out Exactly Why The Surface Sucks
Being behind in a market sucks, and it's understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it's willing to do with Google in search and email, and now with Apple in tablet computers. A brand new Surface ad pits the iPad against Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet, in an attempt to show how much more...
techcrunch.com (4 hours ago)
Why the Googolplex Number Is Insanely Difficult to Visualize, in Song
You might know that a googol-the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes-is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex-a 1 followed by a googol of zeros-is an even bigger number. But this video helps explain why it's such an insane concept to get your head round. The video's ably presented by Matt...
gizmodo.com (5 hours ago)
Sherpa's Personal Assistant App Is Coming To Glass, Other Android Wearables
Sherpa, the popular natural language digital assistant Android app, is coming to Google Glass and other Android-based wearables the company announced today. Although there isn't a firm timeline for rollout, Sherpa founder and CEO, Xabier Uribe-Etxebarría, tells me the company is looking to launch on Android-powered...
gizmodo.com (5 hours ago)
Mailbox, the app that was supposed to revolutionize email so long as you were willing to stand in a
Mailbox, the app that was supposed to revolutionize email so long as you were willing to stand in a 250,000+ wait list, has just released its first iPad-optimized version. And the best part? No virtual waiting in line required.
gizmodo.com (5 hours ago)
How We Imagined the Internet Before the Internet Even Existed
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. Sounds obvious today. But in 1968, a full year before ARPANET made its first connection? It was downright clairvoyant. Sometimes a vision of the future can be so accurate that it's hard for those of us living in the...
gizmodo.com (21 hours ago)
Forget 3D-Printed Guns; Here Are Some 3D-Printed Shotgun Slugs
The fact that we can 3D-print guns, each scarier than the last, is unsettling enough. But why would we stop at weapon itself? Why not 3D-printed ammo? Like, say, these devastating shotgun slugs, fresh from a Solidoodle 3 printer. Wired had a nice long chat with Jeff Heeszel, the man seen in the video above wreaking...
gizmodo.com (21 hours ago)
Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Secure Your Account
Twitter just announced that it’s launched two-factor authentication for accounts. Two-factor authentication uses your password and an additional method to verify your identity. Google’s two-factor authentication, launched in 2010, texts a code to your mobile number when a new device ...
wired.com (21 hours ago)
Review: Phorus Play-Fi Wireless Speaker System
This new system provides multi-room wireless audio streaming over Wi-Fi. It uses the new Android-based Play-Fi lossless streaming protocol.
wired.com (21 hours ago)
5 Grizzly Decades of Workplace Safety Posters
Worker's compensation is a fairly new thing, dating only back to the Labor Movement in the early 1900s. Before that, injuries on the job were usually treated with either indifference or cheap payoff-after all, the average factory worker was making mere cents a day, so half a year's pay was chump change for large...
gizmodo.com (23 hours ago)
Zite App Update Strives to Fill the Hole Left by Google Reader
For those of you bemoaning the demise of Google Reader, fear not, Zite, the personalized news app, has stepped up to fill its place. At least partially.
wired.com (1 day ago)
Just like their annual Zeitgeist roundup of its most-searched-for terms, Google Trends now offers mo
Just like their annual Zeitgeist roundup of its most-searched-for terms, Google Trends now offers monthly, Knowledge Graph-based "Top Charts" in some 40 odd categories including Chemical Elements, Medications, Teen Pop Artists, and Whiskey. You know, the important things.
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
The Real-Life, $150 Star Trek Tricorder Is One Step Closer To Reality
Late last year we told you about Scanadu and its real-life tricorder, called the SCOUT. Within 10 seconds of direct contact to your left temple, the SCOUT analyzes, records and spits back your vitals, including temperature, respiratory rate, ECG, blood pressure (systolic, diastolic), stress and oximetry levels....
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
What’s Inside: Golf Balls
Cis-1,4-Polybutadiene It’s rubber with a memory. This polymer’s chain of repeating units are cis-linked-connected on the same side of a carbon-carbon double bond. Once molded into a shape (like a ball), the material returns to that shape whenever it gets ...
wired.com (1 day ago)
Sleep Tracking Startup Zeo Says Goodnight
One of the early pioneers in the Quantified Self movement has quietly gone out of business. Zeo, a leading maker of hardware and software used by consumers to track sleep and improve their health, has not been operating since the end of last year. A trustee has nearly completed the sale of all company assets. Zeo...
techcrunch.com (1 day ago)
13 Facts You Won't Believe Are True
Here's a short video that'll wrinkle your brain a bit. Like debunking 50 common misconceptions, this video shows 13 facts you might not know are true. Like how Neil Armstrong had to clear customs after going to the Moon. Or that Russia is bigger than Pluto. Learning is fun. If I learned all this stuff in elementary...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
Wow, A Guy Plummeted 40MPH off a 1,000 Foot Cliff and Survived
Don't watch this video. No, seriously, it's really rough. The best thing is that Matthew Gough, the guy who plummets while base jumping, actually survived the fall with only minor injuries. He hit the ground at 40mph from a 1,000 foot cliff because his parachute malfunctioned. The footage is taken from his helmet...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
The Creator of the GIF Says It's Pronounced JIF. He Is Wrong
Along with whether or not Al Gore invented the Internet, figuring out the correct pronunciation of GIF is one of the earliest questions of the Internet. I grew up believing it was hard-G GIF. Most people I know pronounce it like that too. Even the White House agreed on pronouncing GIF like 'gift'. But we have to...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
Daft Punkitecture Around The World
Daft Punk recently released this slick and stylish photo shoot set in a famous LA modernist house, though we here at Architizer think there’s more here than meets the eye. What other “Daft Punkitecture” is out there in the world waiting to be found? These images were shot at the Sheats Goldstein Residence, designed...
gizmodo.com (1 day ago)
Pump Up The Jams With NuForce’s Mobile Music Pump
If you’re looking to maximize the volume of the tunes streaming from your mobile device, regular earbuds or over-ear headphones just won’t cut it. What you need is a headphone amplifier like, say, NuForce’s new Mobile Music Pump. NuForce’s headphone ...
wired.com (1 day ago)
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 (1 day 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 (1 day 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 day 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 day 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 (1 day 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 (1 day 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 (1 day ago)
From Green Light to Boot-Up: Behind the Scenes of Xbox One’s Development
All photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
wired.com (1 day 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 (1 day ago)
