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It’s the holiday season, which traditionally means great parties, great food and, of course, great adult frosty beverages. Sadly, it also means a great number of calories – an overabundance of which can cause all kinds of post-holiday anxiety. Is there anything you can do? Of course there is! You can use your smartphone to Continue Reading →

Google updated its Search app on Thursday for Apple hardware with a refined iOS 7 redesign, expanding the overall UI and swipe-up Google Now feed to fill the entirety of the screen. It’s subtle tweak, but given that the Google Search app was always well-designed and not too dissimilar to the look of iOS 7, Continue Reading →

Two researchers at York University have worked out a way to communicate between two points using vodka evaporated into the air. They used their system to message the lyrics of “O Canada” between two points, leading them to conclude that in times of need, when there is no cellular reception, it would be possible to Continue Reading →

Once upon a not so distant time, a woman took a long walk off a short pier while checking her Facebook page. True story. Then there was the time the San Diego police department ticketed a woman for driving while under the influence of Glass. Clearly, we’ve fallen victim to our technological dependence, not just Continue Reading →

Twitter has just announced a couple of small but useful updates to its Twitter Alerts system, which allows participating organizations to send out notices to subscribing users about emergencies or disaster areas. The alerts system gains the ability to pop up an in-app notification inside of Twitter’s apps today, utilizing the same pop-up ‘toast’ notifications Continue Reading →

Remember how excited you were for BBM to hit Android and iOS and then BlackBerry continued to fake us all out with imminent releases? Thankfully, that’s now all in the past and BBM is a reality for those of us not on BB10 devices, but still its feature set leaves something to be desired. The Continue Reading →

Earlier this year, the French independent administrative authority CNIL advised six European countries to take action over Google’s privacy policies. Now Spain has become the first of the six to fine the search giant, demanding €900,000 ($1.24 million) for breaching the nation’s privacy laws. The Wall Street Journal reports that the fine, administered by the Continue Reading →

In 2005, on Google’s sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many, many teams was Google’s own smartphone effort—the Android project. Tucked in a first-floor corner of Google’s Building 44, surrounded by Google ad reps, its four dozen engineers thought that they were on track to deliver a revolutionary device that would change Continue Reading →

Researchers have weighed a planet orbiting a distant star by measuring the starlight passing through its atmosphere. The technique could accelerate the hunt for Earth-like worlds. Knowing the mass of an extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is an important step in determining whether it is rocky, and thus potentially home to life. To find that mass, Continue Reading →

It may only work on tiny amounts of water, but it should be the fastest transfer of energy to water on Earth. Scientists have figured out how to heat about one billionth of a liter of water 600 degrees Celsius in one trillionth of a second, according to a new paper. Their idea is to Continue Reading →