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01/06/2015

http://lifehacker.com/the-coolest-android-m-features-google-didnt-announce-1707687080

Yesterday, at Google I/O, the company announced Android M and teased us with a bunch of cool features. However, the company couldn’t mention everything in one keynote. However, Android M is available for download on some devices. Here are just some of the sweet features in the preview that Google di…

16/03/2015

This car literally outlives its driver - being able to run on only 8 grams of fuel for 100 years.

21/01/2015

Ubuntu Linux has spread to quite a few platforms in its 10-year history, if not always successfully. Today, though, the open source software is tackling

10/01/2015

Introducing The First Fuel-cell Power Generator For Your Smartphone http://www.wiredgist.com/?p=568

Smartphones are fast taking over the world, gradually taking over some roles humans can play in the society. But then, smartphones need to be powered. Research has shown that some smartphones use up at least 3.5kWh in a year. Smartphones generally make use of lithium-ion batteries, therefore 99% of all portable smartphone chargers you might bump into will rely on a Li-Ion battery to store all that spare juice. [ 246 more words. ]

17/12/2014

The Navy’s new underwater drone is designed to look and swim like a real fish.

16/12/2014

Multi-factor verification adds an extra layer of authentication to gain access to your data, but for hackers, that just amounts to an extra layer to bypass -- a bump in the road. A new type of verification, quantum authentication, doesn't just add an extra layer, but is nearly impossible to crack fr…

04/12/2014

Julian Melchiorri has created a plant that can produce oxygen using just water and light.

04/12/2014

First it was Clippy -- and now it's clip art: After 20 years as the preeminent way of sprucing up a lackluster Word or PowerPoint document, Microsoft has retired its Clip Art gallery. In its place, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook will simply bring up a Bing Images search window.

20/11/2014

Starting in 2015, everyone will be able to get their hands on a free, officially sanctioned SSL/TLS certificate so that HTTPS can finally be enabled everywhere. The new service -- a certificate authority (CA) called Let's Encrypt -- is led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, and th…

11/11/2014

Everyone's favorite mini-computer has just gotten even smaller. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is today introducing the Model A+, a revamped version of its

29/10/2014

The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, has announced that it has finally finalized the specs for the HTML5 standard after almost eight years of work. This should allow rich content to work seamlessly across desktop and mobile platforms. Though parts of HTML5 have been used by web developers over…

28/10/2014

Sorry, penguin lovers -- if you thought that 2015, in the heinous wake of Windows 8, would finally be the year of desktop Linux, you were sadly mistaken. Windows 10 will actually come with a package manager. Yes, in Windows 10 you can open up a command line shell and install VLC or Firefox or thousa…