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How are KDE Apps Able to Run under GNOME?
The visual differences between the GNOME and KDE desktop environments are easy to see, so how is it possible to run an app from one under the other without problems? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has...
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PlayStation 4 tops US console sales in February, but Xbox One narrows the gap
It looks like Sony’s commanding lead in next-gen console sales didn’t last long in the US. The NPD Group reports that the PlayStation 4 was the top-selling game console in the country this February,...
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Daily Roundup: Garmin Vivofit review, Amazon raises the price of Prime, and...
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...
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Zuckerberg responds to ‘frustrating’ reports of NSA spoofing Facebook, while...
Yesterday a report from The Intercept exposed NSA documents apparently showing how it could infect “millions” of computers with malware and even masquerade as a Facebook server. Now, Facebook CEO Mark...
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How to Get Rid of Bad Habits
Let’s face it, all of us have our own bad habits. We may bite our nails or crack our knuckles. Some of us interrupt people often or procrastinate. All these nasty habits are hard to break. But have no...
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Apple adds a dedicated selfie section to its iOS App Store
A new App Store section. Not the app store section we needed, but the app store section we deserved…. See the original post: Apple adds a dedicated selfie section to its iOS App Store
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Plex adds adds free Chromecast support for all, media shuffling and camera...
If paying for beta access to new features isn’t your bag, the folks at Plex have some good news for you. The media outfit’s announced that not only is beaming your content to Google’s HDMI dongle free...
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Chromecast Android app prepped for upcoming international rollout
Google’s Chromecast has been very well received so far — and thanks to the SDK, becoming more useful with better support from music, video and photo apps — but without international availability, it’s...
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Nokia’s Refocus camera app is now available to all Lumia owners on WP8
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Nokia’s “shoot now, focus later” photography app, Refocus, required PureView hardware to run, because until now it’s only been available on PureView-branded phones....
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ASUS could drop dual-OS devices following pressure from Google and Microsoft
One of the more interesting laptops we saw at this year’s CES was a split-personality hybrid from ASUS — the Transformer Book Duet TD300, shown above. According to the Wall Street Journal, however,...
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PayPal’s new policies are more crowdfunding friendly
Last year, PayPal promised to overhaul its policies after getting flak for freezing huge amounts of crowdfunding funds, and today it’s announced those changes. By the looks of it, PayPal has been...
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How to Celebrate Pi Day
Pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and it is also one of the most revered mathematical constants in the known world.[1] Pi Day was first...
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Farewell, CeBIT 2014
CeBIT 2014 is done, and it’s high time that we say goodbye to the Hannover Messe. Of course, much of CeBIT’s thunder has been stolen by Mobile World Congress and IFA, but given the interesting...
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EE prepping its own low-cost LTE handset for UK launch
We assumed Vodafone would be the first UK network to launch an own-brand LTE handset when a US regulatory filing, of all things, hinted as such. Nothing’s come of that as yet, and it looks instead...
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Samsung’s new phone case uses ultrasound to detect people and objects
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 may be getting lots of smart new accessories, but the Korean smartphone maker is also making sure its lower-powered phones get some love too. After including various software...
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Why Have Most Windows 8 Users Not Upgraded to Windows 8.1?
Windows 8.1 is a free upgrade to Windows 8. It’s what the original Windows 8 should have been, with important improvements for both desktop and tablet users. So why are more people using Windows 8...
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Reported Amazon game controller appears in pictures
Amazon is probably making a game console, and today we’ve got a better idea of what that console’s controller looks like thanks to Dave Zatz and the Brazilian FCC. The standards are all there: two...
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French billionaire to bring 3,000 all-electric hire cars to London
Electric cars have yet to wow British drivers, but that doesn’t mean the government is ready to give up on putting more greener vehicles on UK streets. With help from a French billionaire, the city is...
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Google Play Store update adds finer security control for app purchases
Making it smoother for you to buy up all the in-app items you need (or make it harder for your kids to do the same), Google’s latest update to the Play Store is adding a new “Require password”...
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Samsung’s new smartphone case uses ultrasound to detect people and objects
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 may be getting lots of smart new accessories, but the Korean smartphone maker is also making sure its lower-powered phones get some love too. After including various software...
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