Google’s Sundar Pichai said the company is focused on helping devices work together across all categories.
Aereo users in Salt Lake City and Denver are finding themselves out of luck this weekend after the television streaming company was forced to shut down its services in those two cities—the result of a court order handed down from US District Court Judge Dale A. Kimball. The shutdown took effect at 10am Saturday, March 8, according to
It’s something straight out of a tech blogger’s fever dream: A print magazine comes back from the dead to announce it’s found the creator of Bitcoin. Journalists respond with their best reenactment of the OJ Simpson chase. The alleged Bitcoin creator denies any involvement with the crypto-currency. The “real” creator of Bitcoin reemerges to state as much. Oy. Pass the Advil. Join us as we relive the confusing, twisting tale of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto.
“Who really wears the pants in the [Obama] administration?” Assange asked during a Skype call with the SXSW audience. “Is it the intelligence agencies or is it the civilian part of that administration?”
With Google Glass starting to pick up steam, Sony doesn’t want to get left too far behind. The Japanese company showed off its SmartEyeglass prototype at the Wearables DevCon conference just outside San Francisco this week, where it was trying to drum up interest among developers, who will need to build applications for the device. Like Google Glass, SmartEyeglass displays information instantly in front of a users eyes. Unlike Glass, which has a small prism display, Sony’s prototype looks more like a normal pair of eyeglasses and shows information in green over a pair of see-through lenses.
A variety of projects unveiled in the past year aim to give mobile apps the ability to instantly detect a person’s emotional state. A startup called Affectiva, which emerged out of MIT’s Media Lab, last month launched a software developer kit (SDK) for its emotion-tracking technology. The company claims that it’s possible to assess the effect that advertising and branding have on a person if you analyze that person’s facial expressions through the camera of a mobile device.Constant emotional feedback could change the trajectory of a game or an interactive story depending on how the user feels about various scenes. Affectiva’s
The retailer is testing out some unique new wearable tech that's aimed at improving communication within its stores.
Two days of public outcry was enough to convince Massacusetts legislators that they had better address a legal loophole that allowed a smartphone-toting creep to escape penalties.
One year after launching Simple Choice, the carrier upgrades data plans.
Microsoft didn’t disappoint with the new and improved capabilities it announced and demonstrated for Office 365 this week, but how well they work in the real world remains to be seen. At its SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft laid out its vision for making Office 365 a more intelligent collaboration suite via new social interactions, APIs (application programming interfaces) and machine learning capabilities. The centerpiece of the announcements was Oslo, an upcoming application designed to tap into the new machine learning capabilities of Office 365, called Office Graph, that allow it to understand the connections between people and documents.
The streaming radio app piggybacks off of Slacker radio and is exclusively available to Samsung Galaxy device users.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should move forward with a plan to open up new 5GHz spectrum to Wi-Fi as consumer demand for wireless bandwidth skyrockets, a member of the commission said Friday. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel called on the agency to “seize this opportunity” and act on With some analysts estimating that 50 percent to 70 percent of mobile phone traffic is now offloaded onto Wi-Fi networks, the longtime Wi-Fi band at 2.4GHz is “getting mighty crowded,” Rosenworcel said
Reporter Glenn Greenwald, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will take the stage—Assange and Snowden via a livestream—over the next few days, and even Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt kicked off the festival’s first day with deep thoughts on Google’s role in the scandal. Google chairman Eric Schmidt speaks on the NSA and other topics at South by Southwest on Friday.
With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices. The tool they have developed, called Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC), is trained to uncover aberrant code written in the C programming language, the language in which they say most malicious Android code is written. PREC looks for root exploits, in which a program gains system administration access rights to the entire device, which a malicious hacker can use with ill intent. The researchers detailed their work, captured in the paper “
No more excuses: Sygic’s GPS Navigation app adds a head-up display option. Just keep your phone plugged in, because it sucks battery life big-time.
Between email, Web pages, books and other texts, we each read thousands of words a day. A company called Spritz has spent the last few years in stealth mode, developing a technology to help us read even more, in less time. Spritz—which is both the name of the technology and the verb for using it—streams text on your screen one word at a time, which, the company claims, allows your brain to comprehend it much more quickly and easily. Their trademarked tagline is “Reading Reimagined,” and after playing with the technology a bit I have to agree. Spritz technology enables you to read and comprehend information much faster than normal.
If you bought a computer or other device that uses DRAM around the turn of the century, you could be eligible for a payout as part of a price fixing settlement. The Consumers can make a claim for any purchases made between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2002 for devices that contain dynamic random access memory, a common component in consumer electronics. The settlement covers computers, game consoles, MP3 players, printers, PDAs, graphics cards, DVRs, DVD players and servers, but does
Ein internationales Forscherteam mit Schweizer Beteiligung hat vier menschengemachte Gase in der Atmosphäre gefunden, die die Ozonschicht zerstören.
Man müsse die Physik so erklären, dass sie alle interessiere, sagt Fachdidakt Albert Zeyer. Laut ihm spielt das Geschlecht bei der Vorliebe der Buben für Technik eine untergeordnete Rolle.
Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) will ihren Grenzwert für den Zuckerkonsum halbieren.
Jede Minute stirbt ein Kind an der Tropenkrankheit: Forscher haben nun nachgewiesen, dass es in den Hochebenen Äthiopiens und Kolumbiens immer mehr Malaria-Fälle gibt.
Bei vielen Krankheiten stellen die Ärzte einen zu niedrigen Vitamin-D-Spiegel fest. Gemäss neuen Studien könnte dies aber nicht die Ursache, sondern die Folge einer Krankheit sein.
Weitere Sensation: US-Wissenschaftlern war es im letzten Jahr gelungen, ein Kind von Aids zu heilen. Nun schafften Ärzte in Baltimore das Unglaubliche erneut.
Einschlafhilfen sind Geräte, die mittels Geräuschen Babys im Schlaf begleiten. Etwa ein plätscherndes Bächlein oder Muttergeräusche sollen beruhigend wirken. Eine aktuelle Studie zweifelt an der wohltuenden Wirkung.
Ein Schweizer Psychiater hat die weltweit erste Patientenstudie mit LSD abgeschlossen. Der psychoaktive Stoff erwies sich als wirksam und komplikationsfrei. Eine Anwendung ist dennoch nicht in Sicht.
Wissenschaftler der Eidgenössischen Materialprüfungsanstalt haben ein Blech entwickelt, dessen Schwingungen per Knopfdruck gedämpft werden können. Dank des Materials könnten Maschinen stabiler gebaut werden.
Das belgische Parlament stimmt der Sterbehilfe für Kinder zu. Medizinrechtler Julian Mausbach von der Uni Zürich über die Frage, ob ein solches Gesetz auch in der Schweiz kommen könnte.
Das menschliche Gehirn durch Supercomputer simulieren: Das will das an die ETH Lausanne vergebene Human Brain Projects. Gesteuert wird es nun allerdings von Genf aus.
Weil zu viele hormonaktive Stoffe in Schweizer Abwässer gelangen, müssen Kläranlagen für viel Geld eine zusätzliche Reinigungsstufe einbauen.
Die Schweizer Fliessgewässer enthalten einen ganzen Cocktail an Pestiziden, so eine Studie. Wie schlimm ist das? Mitautor Christian Leu nimmt Stellung.
Das saubere Image trügt: Wissenschaftler kommen zum Schluss, dass Schweizer Flüsse durch verschiedenste Pestizide erheblich belastet sind.
Rund 400 Vertreter aus Bildung und Forschung protestieren mit einer Petition gegen die Rückstufung der Schweiz bei den EU-Forschungsprogrammen Horizon 2020 und Erasmus+.
Li Keqiang hat der Umweltverschmutzung im Land den Kampf angesagt. China werde künftig mit derselben Entschlossenheit gegen Umweltverschmutzung vorgehen wie gegen die Armut im Land.
Henry Markram will das menschliche Gehirn im Computer nachbauen. Ist das Projekt grössenwahnsinnig oder visionär?
Er will das Gehirn vollkommen verstehen: Der gebürtige Südafrikaner und Neurowissenschaftler Henry Markram macht Lausanne zum Zentrum der Hirnforschung.
Ein ungarischer Spielfilm greift einen Zwischenfall aus dem Jahr 1958 auf, der vertuscht und vergessen wurde: Den Überfall auf die ungarische Botschaft, der für einen Eindringling tödlich endete.