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Make a tiny origami Santa
I made wee origami Santas. Each guy is folded from two 1 1/2″ squares of red paper. Have the kids tuck one inside your Christmas cards or stick them onto gift tags. Make them green and they could be...
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Geek Trivia: Which Web Browser Is Named After What It Lacks?
Which Web Browser Is Named After What It Lacks? Midori Chrome Firefox Safari Think you know the answer? See the original post: Geek Trivia: Which Web Browser Is Named After What It Lacks?
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Google Glass collision detection could one day save you from yourself
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 time the San Diego police department ticketed a woman for...
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Tizen ready to unveil its newest devices in February at Mobile World Congress
Tizen is a relatively new operating system which will be featured on a wide range of devices, from smartphones and tablets to automotive computer systems, but it’s been pretty quiet thus far, only...
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Atheer Labs wants to make its augmented reality glasses a reality on Indiegogo
Atheer Labs isn’t the only company chasing Tony Stark, but it is the very latest to offer a set of smart glasses to developers — enabling them to build out 3D touchless gesture controlled apps. Like...
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A closer look at Apple’s new Mac Pro workstation (hands-on)
We know, we know: everyone who’s seen it says it looks like a trashcan. But surely there’s something else to say about Apple’s new Mac Pro workstation, right? The thing is, until now, any tech blogger...
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Google Transparency Report: government takedown requests are on the rise
Google’s Transparency Reports shed light on how often governments across the globe request the removal of content, and the company’s latest is especially interesting given the intense focus on the...
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SwiftKey update simplifies setup process, adds festive keyboard theme
SwiftKey’s spreading a little Christmas cheer today, having updated its popular keyboard app for Android with a festive “Ice” theme. In addition to looking generally chilly, the theme frames letter...
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Nokia Black update brings imaging enhancements to Lumia 1020 today
Nokia likes to bundle Microsoft’s Windows Phone updates with a set of its own improvements specific to the Lumia line, and the latest such version — known as the Black update — is finally making its...
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How to Cope with an Expanding Data Closet
This holiday season you’ll probably be tempted to pick up another 2TB external for your home computer and a bunch of 32GB USB3 flash drives for stocking stuffers. Or perhaps you’ve decided to trust...
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Turn Your Wireless Mouse into a Power Glove
The upcoming weekend is a perfect time to tackle a new DIY project, so why not focus that DIY power on a new computer accessory? Today’s step-by-step instructional video shows you how to take a...
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Android’s Permissions System Is Broken and Google Just Made It Worse
Mobile apps are harvesting entire address books and uploading them to ad servers, tracking users’ movements via GPS, and doing other nasty things. But Android’s permission system doesn’t do enough to...
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Spain fines Google $1.2 million for allegedly violating privacy laws
Google triggered investigations in six European countries when it revealed its unified privacy policy last year, but Spain is the first of the bunch to draw blood. The country just fined Google a...
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Verizon to publish regular reports on government data requests
Numerous tech giants have been eager to publish what they can about government data requests, but telecoms haven’t been so forthcoming. Verizon is breaking some ground, though, with plans to publish...
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Microsoft’s Project Siena lets you create Windows apps with ease
If you think creating an app is something only whizkid developers and those with programming skills can do, think again. Microsoft has recently unveiled Project Siena, a Metro-style app that lets...
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BlackBerry bringing Channels and Voice Chat to BBM for Android and iOS next year
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...
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Moto G gets KitKat, improved camera features in the US
Given that Motorola’s budget-friendly Moto G launched just last month, you would have figured the mid-range smartphone would have packed some KitKat. Sadly, it did not, but Mountain View’s hardware...
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Samsung Galaxy Gear notification update reaches the US three weeks late
Remember how Samsung promised American Galaxy Gear owners an update that significantly improves third-party notification support? That update is at last rolling out — three weeks behind schedule....
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Switched On: What’s become of the $100 laptop
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. This week marks the ninth anniversary of the column. Back in 2006, at the height of interest in the One Laptop Per...
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Chip Saves Power by Fudging the Figures
We owe our smartphones and supercomputers to the mathematicians and engineers who figured out in the 1940s and 1950s how to create machines that can crunch numbers at high speed with perfect accuracy....
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