Today, Apple introduced two new iPhones and a mobile payment system as part of a marketing blitz aimed at drumming up consumer excitement. Now the question is whether the new gear will live up to the hype. Speaking from the Flint Performing Arts Center in Apple’s hometown of Cupertino, Calif., Apple marketing chief Philip Schiller […]
Home Depot may be the latest victim of a massive data breach. According to Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security, “Multiple banks say they are seeing evidence that Home Depot stores may be the source of a massive new batch of stolen credit and debit cards that went on sale this morning in the cybercrime […]
Many parents fear letting their teenagers start to drive, and with good reason. Fatal auto crashes are the leading cause of death among Americans ages 15 to 20. But new technology can help give parents some peace of mind by letting them set a limit on the car’s speed and by tracking the location of […]
It turns out those hipsters who spend hours at Starbucks gulping more WiFi than coffee have a pretty good reason to be doing so. According to the folks at OpenSignal, which measures WiFi and cellular signal strength across the country, Starbucks offers the fastest free public WiFi among locations tested within the United States. In […]
During the brutally hot summer months, the interior of your car turns into an oven. As the temperature outside creeps closer to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the inside of a vehicle left in the sun can reach as high as 170 degrees. Tragically, according to the non-profit child safety group Kids and Cars, 38 children die […]
A sidewalk in downtown Washington, D.C., looked a little different Thursday, courtesy of a set of freshly stenciled commands separating the path into lanes: “NO CELLPHONES” on the left, “CELLPHONES: WALK IN THIS LANE AT YOUR OWN RISK” on the right. A solid line split those lanes. The phone lane, additionally, featured north- and south-facing […]
This iPhone app won’t be happy until you don’t need to use it anymore. A new app for iOS called Moment claims it can help you use your iPhone less. The app constantly runs in the background of the phone and tracks your daily iPhone usage; as you learn how much time you spend on […]
Earlier this week, the Federal Aviation Administration published a “Notice of Interpretation” that outlined new limitations for flying unmanned aircraft — what we’ve lovingly come to know as drones — for both commercial and recreational use. The statement makes it clear that the FAA disapproves of Amazon’s intention to eventually deliver packages via drone. “FAA […]
Did you hear about the latest iPhone app out of Harvard? It really stinks. Harvard scientists successfully transferred the first scent from Paris to New York on Tuesday morning via an iPhone app. The champagne and passion fruit macaroon-scented message was transferred via a new communication platform called the oPhone. It works like this: A […]
If you’ve ever had your phone stolen, there’s probably nothing you wanted more than to punch the thief right in the nose — if only you knew what that nose looked like. Lookout Mobile Security’s app, available for Android and iOS, can now provide you a picture of just that, along with the face to […]