In addition to satellites and computers smaller than a giant room, Arthur C. Clarke also predicted mobile touchscreen devices that could be crumpled up like a handkerchief and stuffed in a pocket. Thanks to researchers at Japan’s Semiconductor Energy Laboratory company , we’re almost there. Read more…
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Tri-Fold Touchscreen OLED Could Give You Way More Smartphone Real Estate
Two-factor authentication is generally seen as the safest bet for protecting your Gmail account. But a harrowing tale from indie developer Grant Blakeman , whose Instagram was hacked through Gmail, reveals how not even two-factor authentication can beat every security threat. Read more…
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How Hackers Reportedly Side-Stepped Google’s Two-Factor Authentication
This report on a 4-acre spider web covering a building has made shiver and curl in disgust. You are looking at the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant, where 4 acres of their facility were covered by a spider web made by an estimated 107 million spiders. That’s 35, 176 spiders per cubic meter! Read more…
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4-acre spider web may be the grossest thing you will see this Halloween*
Roku was already the best little streaming device money could buy . But now, Google has gone and given Roku access to all your Google Play goodies . Which, more than just being an unprecedented move on Google’s part, makes Roku pretty much unstoppable. Read more…
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Roku Now Has Google Play, Is Pretty Much Unstoppable
Thanks to a settlement in a long-running class-action lawsuit, Intel is now offering fifteen shiny dollars to anyone who bought a Pentium 4-powered PC almost fifteen years ago. One dollar per year of lying and misery that you’ve had to suffer. Read more…
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Disgruntled Pentium 4 Owners Can Get a $15 Settlement From Intel
Google Calendar’s been updated so now you don’t need to refresh for new appointments to appear. Finally. Read more…
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Google Calendar’s been updated so now you don’t need to refresh for new appointments to appear.
The best way to maximize the screen real estate on a smartphone without turning it into a massive phablet is to whittle away as much of the wasted space around the display as possible. And with its new 5.3-inch full HD LCD panel, LG has managed to reduce the size of the display’s bezel to just 0.7mm—which is thinner than a credit card. Read more…
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LG’s New Smartphone Display Has the World’s Thinnest 0.7mm Bezel
Android Lollipop has been around as a developer preview for months , but the real version—complete with all its new Material Design tricks—is due to hit with the Nexus 9 on November 3rd. We’re getting our first extended looks at the final version on our Nexus 6 and 9 review units, so here’s a few GIFs to hold you over until it shows up on your phone. Read more…
In a random hallway inside the KFC headquarters, inside their legal department, across from a copy machine, next to a shelf that stores three stacks of paper and possibly the saddest Keurig machine in existence is… a broom closet. Or well, that’s what it looks like. It’s actually the vault that hides KFC’s biggest secret: the Colonel’s Original Recipe. Read more…
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This is the vault where KFC guards the Colonel’s secret original recipe
Pygmy seahorses are super tiny creatures that have the awesome ability to camouflage. They attach themselves to colorful corals and blend in so seamlessly that I have a hard time picking them out. What’s cool is that even if the pygmy seahorses are descendants of orange seahorses, they can adapt and become purple if that’s the only coral nearby. Read more…
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These pygmy seahorses are so good at changing colors for camouflage