GoPro's latest iOS update integrates a new Apple Watch app, as the company reveals its first Karma camera drone.
Microsoft may actually be paying more attention to its Band fitness wearable, if Thursday's Among Microsoft's latest updates to the Band 2, the most interesting addition could be a “What’s New” tile, which will pop up when Band updates become available. It’s a tacit commitment to future updates, which would be a positive change for the neglected Band. "The tile will automatically appear on your band when new updates are available," said Microsoft. "Tap the tile to learn about great new features and functionality."
If you've been holding out for a great deal on the Xbox One this holiday season, then look no further. The team at
Windows 10's next major update, code-named " According to a report from Microsoft launched Windows 10 this past summer (and released Windows 10 Mobile recently as well) and continues to beef up the operating system. The Redstone update will reportedly take place next year.
Twitter is stepping up its emoji game with Unicode 8 support on the desktop website. The latest version of the Unicode standard adds Unicode 8 also brings an eye toward diversity, as users are able to modify the skin tone of hands and faces. The new standard includes several new places of worship as well, including Synagogue and Mosque, and allows family emojis to include same-sex couples.
Sometimes Microsoft creates a piece of software that doesn’t necessarily catch on with the general public but still wins over a dedicated core of users. Typically these programs die a long, slow death, but one such program will live on. Microsoft recently decided to open source The program has been renamed Open Live Writer and you can
Icontrol Networks’ Piper wireless security cameras can now alert you when no one’s home and the system is unarmed.
Verizon will soon begin testing sponsored data plans, in which Internet companies pay to keep their traffic from counting against users’ data caps. The tests will begin in the next few days, followed by a larger commercial rollout in the first quarter of next year, Verizon won’t be the first carrier to test this kind of scheme. In January 2014, AT&T announced its own “Sponsored Data” plan, which also lets companies pay to steer clear of data caps. Nearly two years later, that program is still in a limited trial, and not a single major streaming service is participating.
Windows knows, or should know, what program you use for reading and writing email. That way, when you click on an mailto link in a webpage, or tell an application such as LibreOffice to email a document, Windows takes you where you want to go. This usually works just fine with a local email client—a mail program that came with Windows or that you installed onto your PC. But if you use a web-based email service, such as Gmail or Outlook.com, Windows won’t know where to send you when you need to send a message.
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Millions of Web users could be left unable to access websites over the HTTPS protocol if those websites only use digital certificates signed with the SHA-2 hashing algorithm. The warning comes from Facebook and CloudFlare as browser makers are considering an accelerated retirement of the older and increasingly vulnerable SHA-1 function. The two companies have put mechanisms in place to serve SHA-1 certificates from their websites to old browsers and operating systems that don’t support SHA-2, but are still widely used in some regions of the world. These include Windows versions older than Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Android versions older than 2.3 (Gingerbread) and any applications that rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 for encrypted communications.
Here’s what my Then I sent him into battle and I mean, all five members of my squad died. But Snake’s death hurt the most, you know? And that’s, I guess, the masochistic charm of I got about two and a half hours of hands-on time with
The new version of Toyota's best-selling Prius hybrid will come with technology that allows it to talk to other vehicles and objects like traffic signals. It's one of the first examples of such technology being installed in a mass market car, and while it will be available initially only in Japan, the work there should help its introduction in other countries. It's possible in Japan thanks to the country's standardization on a single frequency for so-called "Intelligent Transportation Systems." The 760MHz band was freed up when analog TV broadcasting ended in Japan in 2011. At intersections equipped with the technology, traffic signals will beam data to cars about their status. So if the driver doesn't notice a red light, the car will automatically slow down because it knows it should stop.
Do you know your ARM from your API from your ADB? We clear up the sometimes confusing terminology in the world of Android.
For Google, 2015 was a year of transformation, as the company breathed new life into old products, got serious about some previously experimental efforts, and even announced a major restructuring. But it was also a year in which the past caught up to Google, with previously-minor nags turning into bigger headaches. Here are the highlights and lowlights of Google’s 2015.
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Baidu has indicated that it could be a serious competitor in the market for self-driving cars by testing a fully autonomous car on a route it said had mixed roads under a variety of environmental conditions. The vehicle, a modified BMW 3 Series, is said to have made right, left and U-turns, slowing down if it detected vehicles ahead, changed lanes, passed other cars and merged into traffic on the highway, Baidu said Wednesday. The car reached a top speed of 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) during the test runs on a 30-kilometer route, which began and ended at Baidu's Beijing headquarters near Zhongguancun Science Park in Haidian District.