It sucks that Home Sharing for music isn’t available on iOS 8.4, but don’t worry — Apple isn’t permanently getting rid of the feature to boost its Music subscriptions. Eddy Cue, the company’s SVP of Internet Software and Services, has divulged on Tw…
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LG’s new touchscreens will make your next laptop thinner and lighter
LG’s display subsidiary is promising drastically thinner, lighter touchscreens that will be ready for notebooks later this year. With full HD (1080p) resolution, the Advanced In-Cell Touch (AIT) screens substitute a touch panel layer for a touch sens…
Artists paint light using 3D printers and twisted video walls
Who said that you had to paint light by waving an arm around? Certainly not Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi and Daniel Canogar, both of whom have created art using some decidedly unusual tech. Kalsi’s project generates floating color portraits thanks to a modif…
Squid skin could help make color-changing gadgets
Not happy with the color of your clothes and devices? Eventually, you might get to change those hues on a whim. UC Santa Barbara researchers have discovered that the color-changing California market squid (aka opalescent inshore squid) manages its op…
New Zealand makes cyberbullying a crime
New Zealand has passed a law that criminalizes one of the least desirable facets of the internet: cyberbullying. The legislation effectively prohibits sending messages to people that are racist, sexist, critical of their religion, sexuality or disabi…
The new Bubble Wrap is losing its pop
Bubble Wrap is one of mankind’s greatest inventions. It protects our online orders from becoming rubble in a delivery van, but more importantly, it doubles as pure, joyous entertainment. Pop, pop, pop. There’s nothing quite like it. That’s why we wer…
Solar-powered plane completes five-day journey across the Pacific
The Solar Impulse 2 is a solar-powered plane that has been flying around the world since March. Back in May, it was set to make its most ambitious journey yet, a 5,061-mile trip from Japan to Hawaii. Unfortunately, though, Pilot Andre Borschberg’s in…
DNA sequencing shows how woolly mammoths got that way
In what is being called the “most comprehensive” study of its kind, a team from the University of Chicago claims that it has revealed the massive amount of genetic change needed for woolly mammoths to adapt to their arctic environment. The study, whi…
BlackBerry’s ‘Venice’ Android slider is coming to AT&T (update)
Rumors of a fully Android-powered BlackBerry device popped up again last month, and today Evan Blass aka evleaks has posted a picture showing a glimpse of the phone. Specs for the alleged “Venice” popped up on N4BB a couple of weeks ago, calling it a…
NSA’s hacking tool is apparently as easy to use as a Google search
It’s been a couple of years since Edward Snowden and The Guardian introduced us to the NSA’s spying tool called XKeyscore. Now, The Intercept has published new details about it from 48 documents Snowden provided, revealing that it’s a lot more powerf…
Facebook sharing more ad dollars with video creators
Facebook’s shiny logo isn’t all that’s new for the social network today: The outfit’s also announced how it plans to split video ad revenue with publishers. Like YouTube, Facebook will give content creators 55 percent of ad revenue and keep the rest,…
YouTube app for Android and iOS now supports 60 FPS playback
Google’s been systematically rolling out high frame rate (HFR) video — that’s 60 frames per second — across its YouTube ecosystem for a couple of months now. HFR debuted on standard videos last October. It hit YT’s live streaming service in May and…
The Olympus Air lens camera can be yours for $300
Nearly five months after introducing its Air lens camera in Japan, Olympus is finally ready to bring it to the US. The AIR A01, as it’s officially named, is a shooter that attaches to and pairs with your smartphone or tablet — in similar fashion to …
What’s on your HDTV: Women’s World Cup, ‘Zoo’, ‘Vanilla Sky’ Blu-ray
This week the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup will conclude, and the USWNT is taking on Germany Tuesday night. Beyond that, Cameron Crowe fans (still sticking around since the release of Aloha) can finally see Vanilla Sky on Blu-ray complete with an exte…
Apple Maps minivan spotted in the wild
Earlier this year, a few eagle-eyed folks in the East Bay region in Northern California noticed unmarked minivans with what looked like an array of cameras and sensors sitting on top of it. It turns out that the vehicles were registered to Apple, whi…