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Verizon Cloud spreads to iOS devices, Droid DNA and Galaxy S 4

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:15:07 +0000

When Verizon Cloud launched last month, it would only back up a few Android devices — not quite the cross-platform utopia that the carrier had in mind. Today’s launch of the Verizon Cloud iOS app should get the company (and subscribers) closer to the original vision. Like its mobile counterpart, the iPhone-focused release syncs or [...]

Bandages That Can Turn Off Genes Encourages Wound Healing

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:15:04 +0000

MTorrice writes “Medical researchers think specially tailored RNA sequences could kill tumor cells or encourage wound healing by turning off genes in patients’ cells. Now researchers have developed a nanocoating for bandages or other medical materials that could deliver these fragile gene-silencing RNAs right where they’re needed. The team hopes to produce a bandage that [...]

BBC iPlayer for Android adds support for 10-inch tablets, improved user interface

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:15:02 +0000

It’s simple: the numbers don’t lie. Clearly aware of the many, many hours viewers are squeezing out of their tablets, the BBC has, for the better, made its iPlayer for Android more friendly with 10-inch models. What this means is folks using the app will no longer have to rely on a shortcut to the [...]

Microsoft details how Xbox One cloud servers will tackle processor-intensive gaming chores

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:15:07 +0000

One of the Xbox launch’s big reveals was that Microsoft added 300,000 servers to Xbox Live, and now GM Matt Booty has detailed to Ars Technica how that’ll improve game play. He said the improved cloud architecture will speed up GPU- or CPU-heavy chores that aren’t dependent on latency — like lighting or cloth dynamics [...]

BT Runs an 800GBps Channel On Old Fiber

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:15:05 +0000

judgecorp writes “BT has demonstrated an 800Gbps ‘superchannel’ on a 410km fiber in its core network, which was not able to carry 10Gbps channels using older technology. The superchannel is an advanced dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) technique, created by combining multiple coherent optical signals into one channel, which had previously been shown in laboratory [...]

US Cellular getting ready to launch Home Phone service

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:15:02 +0000

Keen to capitalize on the ever-growing segment of landline cutters, US Cellular appears to be launching a home phone service similar to the Home Connect offerings by Verizon and Sprint. According to information we’ve received, all you have to do is plug in a regular cordless or corded phone into the provided base station and [...]

Chrome 28 beta for Android brings translation bar, fullscreen on tablets

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:15:07 +0000

Internationally savvy Chrome desktop users are well acquainted with the translation bar’s ability to quickly make sense of sites using foreign languages. Courtesy of the new Chrome 28 beta for Android, they can take that linguistic power on the road: the translation bar now shows up on mobile when visiting pages in non-native text. The [...]

Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:15:03 +0000

lukehopewell1 writes “‘Untraceable, undetectable, cheap and freely available.’ That’s how Australian police have described the 3D-printable gun known as The Liberator today as they announce that they will be seeking to make the download, construction and possession of these weapons illegal. In their tests, Police printed the 15 parts required to assemble The Liberator in [...]

AT&T adding iPhone, 4G LTE / HSPA+ support to GoPhone starting tomorrow

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:15:02 +0000

AT&T’s official GoPhone prepaid policy has always officially prevented network data access for iPhones (and other 4G devices except for BlackBerry), but a tipster reports that will change tomorrow. The new policy adds 4G HSPA+ and LTE support as well as Visual Voicemail access to the GoPhone package, with customers able to bring their own [...]

Turtle Beach gets Microsoft stamp of approval to build Xbox One headsets

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:06 +0000

Microsoft’s new Xbox comes with a console, controller and Kinect, but even if you pre-order One for yourself, you’ll need to go elsewhere to pick up a headset to match. And, Turtle Beach will be one of the first next-gen headset providers, as it’s just signed a license with Microsoft to build them for the [...]

Cockroaches Evolving To Avoid Roach Motels

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:03 +0000

sciencehabit writes “Only a few years after roach motels were introduced in the 1980s, they lost their allure for an increasing number of German cockroaches. Researchers soon realized that some roaches had developed an aversion to glucose—the sugary bait disguising the poison—and that the insects were passing that trait on to their young. Now, scientists [...]

Hands-on with Maxwest's $65 7-inch dual-core ICS tablet at CTIA 2013

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:08 +0000

It’s true that cheap affordable Android tablets are a dime a dozen at most trade shows these days, but here at CTIA 2013 we stumbled upon something that caught our eye — a 7-inch dual-core tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich that costs just $65. The Maxwest TAB-7155DC aka. Ippo Y88 measures 182 x 122 x [...]

Box acquires Folders technology with its next-gen iOS app in mind

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:06 +0000

Box just recently snapped up Crocodoc to improve the web component of its cloud storage, but what about tuning the native apps? It’s addressing that side of the equation by acquiring the technology behind Folders, a third-party cloud storage app for iOS. Box loves Folders’ code and design enough to want both of them inside [...]

Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:03 +0000

First time accepted submitter awaissoft writes “There’s big, then there’s really big, and then there’s colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut Thursday in New York’s Times Square. The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego Star Wars [...]

Rumors persist of HTC One with stock Android, despite the official denial

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:15:09 +0000

Is Russell Holly a seer of the future, or did he just manage to get lucky? That’s the question we’re currently kicking around at Engadget. You see, when he first revealed that a Galaxy S 4 would be introduced at Google I/O with stock Android, we quickly dismissed it as something that’d never happen in [...]

Voxx Accessories shows off hassle-free Soundboard for wireless audio (hands-on)

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:15:06 +0000

Voxx Accessories (formerly Audiovox) launched its newest Soundflow wireless audio product at CTIA this week: the Soundboard. The idea is quite simple; place just about any handset on the 3-AA battery powered Soundboard while it plays your favorite music and the device instantly amplifies and rebroadcasts it through its own built in speakers. No pairing, [...]

Android Malware Intercepts Text Messages, Forwards To Criminals

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:15:03 +0000

An anonymous reader writes “A new piece of Android malware has been discovered that can intercept your incoming text messages and forward them on to criminals. Once installed, the trojan can be used to steal sensitive messages for blackmailing purposes or more directly, codes which are used to confirm online banking transactions. The malware in [...]

The Daily Roundup for 05.23.2013

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:15:06 +0000

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click [...]

Scientists Growing New Crystals To Make LED Lights Better

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:15:03 +0000

coondoggie writes “When to comes to offering warm yet visually efficient lighting, LEDs have a long way to go. But scientists with the University of Georgia and Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories are looking at new family of crystals they say glow different colors and hold the key for letting white LED light shine [...]

3D-printed tracheal splint supports baby's airways, saves life

admin — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:15:17 +0000

They say necessity is the mother of invention, and nowhere was it more necessary than in the case of Kaiba Gionfriddo’s life. The infant was born with a condition called tracheobronchomalacia that results in weakened support for the trachea, and his fate seemed all but decided until researchers at the University of Michigan proffered an [...]