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How would you change Acer’s Aspire V5?
11-inch laptops are tricky beasts, purely because the compromises that make them so portable are almost always the ones that mean you’re better off with a 13-incher. That’s why our reviewer was...
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Best of 2013: Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for...
One of the dreams for security experts is the creation of a quantum internet that allows perfectly secure communication based on the powerful laws of quantum mechanics. The basic idea here is that the...
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2013: The Best Biomedicine Stories of the Year
By Susan Young While the fights and fumbles over the Affordable Care Act dominated headlines in 2013, the year was also heady with advances in biomedicine. In April, President Obama announced an...
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A Breakthrough for Speeding Satellite Feeds
Backhaul boost: This two-way satellite ground station in Uganda, supplied by iDirect, is one of many that could get a bandwidth improvement from new network coding technology. An emerging data-coding...
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Wikipedia adds Draft feature to ease pressure on article writers
Here’s a Wikipedia stat you probably didn’t know: around 80 percent of new contributions to the crowdsourced encyclopedia are abandoned before they’re submitted. The organization thinks a lot of...
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How to Give Passive Aggressive Gifts for Christmas
Tired of evading the truth when it comes to the people in your life who really belong on your naughty list? If you’re too shy or lack the courage to state the obvious about the badly behaved people in...
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ASUS teases new dual-boot hybrid device with its CES teaser (video)
Just before a big tech show, ASUS likes to wheel out a baffling teaser to get us all in the mood. Normally, the clips involve panning over some brushed metal, promising that the new gear will...
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Use Supervised Users to Set Up Parental Controls on a Chromebook (or Just in...
Google is now providing integrated parental controls in Chrome, allowing parents to control their kids’ Chrome browser usage. This feature works best on a Chromebook, where it allows you to lock down...
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ECCR’s E-Cigarette Christmas Wish List for the Industry
ECCR’s E-Cigarette Christmas Wish List for the Industry The stockings are hung, the tree decorated, and the fireplace is ready for stoking, so all that’s left is to compile our e-cigarette Christmas...
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CyanogenMod downloaded 10 million times as it begins to go legit
Though CyanogenMod has gotten plenty of ink lately for its Oppo N1 hookup and Google Play approval, it’s still first and foremost a modding outfit. In fact it just marked 10 million downloads of its...
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Geeksphone’s OS-agnostic Revolution smartphone to use Intel chips
We’re not yet done with 2013 and already handset manufacturers are tempting us with the products that we’ll see in 2014. Geeksphone, the outfit behind the Peak+ and Keon, has released the spec list...
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5 Ways to Get Notifications From Websites Using Only Your Browser
Browsers are adding features so fast that it’s hard to keep track of them. Internet Explorer offers live tile notifications and taskbar badges, Safari offers push notifications, Chrome has its own...
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T-Mobile prepaid offering free data… but only to access Facebook
Look, we understand: you absolutely have to know what Jimmy ate for lunch. And that Marissa is, “Ugh, just so sick of this week already.” And Jason’s only a “maybe” to the office holiday party? Who...
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Apple Mac Pro review (2013): small, fast and in a league of its own
It would be an understatement to say that Apple’s Mac Pro workstation was getting a little long in the tooth. As of summer 2012, it was missing Apple’s own Thunderbolt ports, not to mention 802.11n...
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How to Compartmentalize
Compartmentalizing is sometimes described in a negative light, as it means splitting your cognition and thinking into separate areas, especially when they conflict. There, of course, are warnings that...
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Merry Christmas and see you next year!
Hello, everyone! I’m signing off until the new year. Thank you, thank you for making the internet a friendly place and being such kind and lovely readers. I’ve appreciated every comment and email from...
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Talking Cars with Consumer Reports #20: Two Land Rovers and a Cadillac ELR
Link: Talking Cars with Consumer Reports #20: Two Land Rovers and a Cadillac ELR
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LG teases CES home theater lineup including a multi-room music streamer
Nothing says “holiday cheer” like a fresh coat of snow, hot toddies and scads of CES pre-announcements from LG. After dishing on some of its 2014 smart TV plans, the Korean company has now moved on to...
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AllCast for Android leaves beta, streams media to your Apple TV, Roku or Xbox...
Worried that you won’t get to watch your favorite videos while visiting family this holiday? Don’t be: After a brief beta phase, ClockworkMod’s Koushik Dutta has released a completed version of...
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Avegant tests Glyph wearable display prototype, on track for CES debut
We weren’t expecting to see the final Glyph prototype materialize until just before CES, but Avegant is ready to show off the latest consumer design in the flesh, presented above (and again after the...
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