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Right now, most people don’t want a smart home. And while about 13 percent of people have an internet-connected device that isn’t a computer, phone or tablet in their homes, according to research from Parks Associates, the marketing of the smart home for the consumer is still very far out of reach. Last week, I Continue Reading →

Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, scientists have recently developed several ways—some simple and some involving new technologies—to hide objects from view. The latest effort, developed at the University of Rochester, not only overcomes some of the limitations of previous devices, but it uses inexpensive, readily available materials in a novel configuration. “There’ve been Continue Reading →

Get your action gear and your selfie face ready. GoPro, the maker of best-selling action cameras, has just announced its next lineup of cameras, including one with a touchscreen display and another that costs just $130. The $500 GoPro Hero4 Black, the top-of-the-line camera, shoots 4K video at up to 30 frames per second (compared Continue Reading →

Jawbone has launched its new Up app for the iPhone, which utilizes Apple’s Health app and HealthKit to track and deliver advice based on a user’s diet and physical activity. Not to be confused with Jawbone’s other Up app, this newest app does not require the company’s fitness tracker and works with over a hundred Continue Reading →

A new line of iMacs with ultra high-resolution Retina Displays is in late testing stages within Apple, according to our sources who have used the future desktop computer. While the machine will sport a thin profile similar to that of the current design, which was introduced in 2012, it will be packed with new internals Continue Reading →

Apple doesn’t care for apps that let you launch other apps directly from the Notification Center, and has pulled one of the first apps to take advantage of this new functionality now available in iOS 8 from the iTunes App Store. We took a look at Launcher, the app in question, last week, and found Continue Reading →

Investors and analysts spent years clamoring for Facebook to start up an ad network, and earlier this year it obliged them. And now Facebook is rolling out another one. Caveat — this isn’t an ad network in a formal sense. But it’s going to be viewed as one, because in the big picture, it does Continue Reading →

Ello, the upstart social network that’s grown in massive popularity of the past week, was down for 35 minutes on Sunday. Whether for maintenance or more nefarious purposes, it isn’t outwardly explicit. According to its current status page, the site is investigating the cause but is leaning toward a possible denial of service (DDoS) attack. The Continue Reading →

After you’ve returned from a trip it’s time to start working on a slideshow of your adventures. Or not. Grabbing all those photos and putting them into a slideshow is a pain. But soon, Facebook might do all that hard work for you. Reader Alesandro Simić tipped us off to the new Trips Slideshow feature Continue Reading →

Given the avalanche of new smartphones this fall, there’s a good chance that your data use is about to spike as you put that fresh hardware through its paces. If so, AT&T might just have you covered. It’s running a promo between September 28th and October 31st that doubles the amount of data you get Continue Reading →