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What if your home caught on fire? Assuming that you, your family and your beloved pets were able to get out safely, what would you grieve for the most? A fire can destroy every possession in your home, leaving little to nothing of any salvageable value. Even if you have a good homeowner’s insurance policy, Continue Reading →

Archos has given us a first glimpse of a new range of connected devices, health trackers and smartwatches that it’ll be showing off at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month. The array of new ‘Smart Home‘ hardware includes a miniature camera, motion ball, weather tag, smart plug and movement tag, Continue Reading →

Fitbit updated its iOS app on Monday, bringing, perhaps most significantly, the ability to track “basic” activity on an iPhone 5s, without the company’s proprietary wearable. Using Apple’s motion-sensing M7 chip, the app’ll track your steps, distance and the number of calories you’ve burned. You can also utilize features like food and weight tracking, fitness Continue Reading →

Netflix has cracked down on password sharing this year (the streaming service has a $12-per-month plan if you want to stream on four devices simultaneously), but it looks like there’s a new tier to its pricing plan, albeit one available only to new users: you can now sign up for a single-screen standard-def stream for Continue Reading →

Botanists have been busy trying to iron out the pesky needle drop from Christmas trees for years by crossing different species of fir. But now, scientists are getting involved—and the results could mean that your next tree looks or smells completely different. Not content with the rate of progress that horticulturists make—after all, it can Continue Reading →

Flipping through the back pages of “the front page of the Internet” often yields some real gems, and a recently posted thread packed full of tips and tricks for new Apple TV owners certainly fits the bill. When a Reddit user who received a new Apple TV as a Christmas gift posted a message to Continue Reading →

Attendees at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this weekend got a surprising rundown of the NSA’s surveillance capabilities, courtesy of security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum, who co-wrote the Der Spiegel article that first revealed the NSA catalog, went into further detail onstage, describing several individual devices in the catalog and their intended purposes. Alongside Continue Reading →

The new drones are coming, and thanks to an FAA announcement on Monday morning, we now know exactly where they’ll be. After a 10-month study of possible sites, the FAA has announced six sites where researchers will have license to test the next generation of possible drones. It’s part of the FAA’s ongoing roadmap for Continue Reading →

Keeping cats interested in any one toy for any length of time can be difficult, at least in my experience. Plus, most of them require a lot of manual input on the owner’s part. The Egg is a Kickstarter project that aims to keep things interesting for the cat, and save energy for the owner, Continue Reading →

Santa can deliver millions of packages in time for Christmas, but apparently, UPS can’t. That’s why you can expect mega-retailers like Amazon and Walmart to eventually take delivery into their own hands. The delivery company with all those brown trucks expected to ship about 7.75 million packages through its air network on the Monday before Continue Reading →