Your responses to certain stimuli — foods, celebrities, words — might seem trivial, but they say a lot about you. In fact (with the proper clearance), these responses could gain you access into restricted areas of the Pentagon. … [Read more...]
You Can Now Sync your GoPro with BMW’s M Laptimer
Starting this summer, BMW owners will be able to sync a GoPro personal camera with the company's integrated laptimer app, known as M Laptimer. The app is downloadable from the iTunes store and works through the familiar iDrive screen; syncing a camera will allow drivers to produce video laps that can help tighten up driving. … [Read more...]
What If You Could Wear Your Phone on Your Skin?
What if you didn't need to carry your phone around anymore -- you could just wear your phone on your skin instead? That might not be so far fetched. We're not quite at the level of watching entire TV shows in the palms of our hands, but blinky temporary tattoos may be a little closer. And not just for the sake of having blinky temporary tattoos (although that's a worthy goal in … [Read more...]
ClassDojo Can Make Parent-teacher Meetings Obsolete
ClassDojo has raised $21 million in Series B round of venture funding for tech that connects educators to students’ parents, and helps them communicate consistently about student’s activities, social and behavioral development at school. … [Read more...]
Facebook Terragraph Wants to Give Everyone WiFi
Facebook is working on bringing better Internet connectivity to the world in three major ways, and one of them is aiming to bring faster and more reliable connections to urban areas. … [Read more...]
Soon You’ll Be Automatically Tagged in Videos on Facebook
Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. … [Read more...]
Silicon Valley Demands More Stability
Silicon Valley might be losing its sex appeal. Workers in the tech industry are increasingly craving stability and — gasp! — work-life balance over the get-rich-or-die-trying startup culture. That's according to new statistics from recruiting platform Woo, which surveyed 5,000 tech professionals. … [Read more...]
New Jersey Looks to Pass Law Against Texting Whilst Walking
Jared Schumacher is among the hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans who routinely use electronic devices to text, listen to music or do other tasks as they walk outdoors. Careful ... soon there may be a law against texting while walking... … [Read more...]
The Best iPad Ever Is the 9.7-inch iPad Pro
The best flagship iPad you can buy is now the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad Pro is a familiar and excellent product. While a smaller version of the large 12.9-inch iPad Pro Apple just launched last fall may seem like a quick solution to iPad sales problems (it more or less peaked in 2014 and has been flat-to-falling ever since), it would be foolish to think that the … [Read more...]
Next Flagship Phone From HTC Will Be Announced April 12
HTC will unveil its next flagship phone on April 12. The company teased the new device — rumored to be called the HTC 10 — ahead of Mobile World Congress. On Tuesday, HTC sent out invites for the April 12 unveiling. … [Read more...]