The U.S. House of Representatives may vote on a controversial cyberthreat information sharing bill this week, despite major privacy concerns from many digital rights groups and security researchers. The
Sometimes winning can be the worst outcome. With Aperture now effectively retired by Apple, and its successor Fortunately for existing and incoming Lightroom customers, that doesn’t seem to be the plan. The new
Web apps are an essential part of most people’s workflow, whether it’s writing an email in Gmail or editing a spreadsheet in Excel Online. It’s handy to have all your stuff in the cloud, for sure, but it’s kind of a hassle to have to open your browser and navigate to each website you use individually. Enter pinned tabs. If you’re running Windows 7 or Windows 8, you can make web apps feel more desktop-like by pinning them to your taskbar. You may not necessarily get features like offline functionality or local file system access—that’s up to your browser—but when it’s on the taskbar, your web app is always one click away. Pinned web apps also open in their own window, just like traditional desktop software.
YouTube is saying good-bye to its past and many aging tablets, smartphones, and set-top boxes are going to be caught in the cross-fire. If you've got a first generation iPad, anything older than an iPhone 4, or a second-generation Apple TV or older, your device's built-in YouTube app will stop working soon. Google announced late Monday that version 2 of YouTube's data application programming interface (API) would stop working on Monday, April 20. Many older YouTube apps—including the one that was built-in to iOS until version 6—will stop working. Other affected devices include select smart TVs and Blu-ray disc players, older game consoles, and anyone running Google TV version 2 or older. Anyone with Google TV version 3 or 4 can just upgrade their YouTube app in Google Play.
If you find it tough to get off the sofa and get out for a jog, get a drone. That’s the conclusion of one research group that presented the results of It may sound like a joke, but according to Florian Mueller (pictured above), director of the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Australia, flying machines can actually motivate people to exercise by acting as companions. The study, the first of its kind, was aimed at inspiring designers interested in creating robotic systems that can support people when they work out.
In a little more than 18 months, the price of Philips cheapest 60-watt LED has fallen by half.
Third place is a lofty goal, but Mr. Xu is confident that this year is the right time for Huawei to make its grand entrance into the U.S. smartphone market.
Sure, your shiny new Android or iOS device comes with its own browser installed. So why invest your time—and money—installing another browser? Because one of these alternatives can add functionality missing from your phone or tablet, boost your browsing speed, and make your mobile life just that much easier. Dolphin Sonar, a 99 cent in-app purchase, lets you control the mobile browser by voice. I thought that my mobile version of Safari was the only browser I’d ever need for my iPhone. Then I tried
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Anything that speeds up email communication in Microsoft Outlook has to be a bonus. Typing and retyping the same paragraphs, the same information, explanations, directions, instructions, and so on is half the problem—one that can be easily solved with these five, easy, time-saving tips. You should never have to retype your signature line, even if you have multiple versions of your contact information—such as one for work, one for home, and one for your side business. Open a new email, select the Insert tab, click the Signature icon, and choose
If you’re tired of touching that touchscreen, try hitting your phone and making some noise. Researchers in South Korea have developed a sound-based method of controlling smartphones, and connected appliances, by tapping them. Graduate students from Seoul National University of Science and Technology are demonstrating an Android app called Sound Tap at the 2015 Computer-Human Interaction Conference (CHI) in Seoul this week. Sound Tap can be used to control a smartphone by tapping its rear surface with a finger once or twice, or by lightly striking the phone itself against various surfaces in the environment. Since the taps create unique frequencies, they can be used to trigger different functions on the phone, such as calling up browsers, photo galleries or music players.