The online auction and sales giant eBay posted a message Wednesday morning saying that it had been hacked, urging all of its members to change their passwords. The company said in a statement that a database containing encrypted passwords had been breached, but that financial data, including credit card information, was stored separately and was […]
Clothing brands routinely reference some kind of leisure activity or “lifestyle” these days — from Lululemon for yoga enthusiasts to DC for skateboarders. But what about surfwear? Not as in surfing Oahu. As in surfing the Web. Turns out that Cory Arcangel — a celebrated tech artist who made a splash with his show at […]
With iOS 7, Apple introduced iBeacon, a protocol that uses Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to determine your location down to within a couple of feet. We’ve already seen some innovative uses of iBeacon — for example, Major League Baseball uses it within its stadiums, while Apple uses iBeacon in its retail stores to alert customers […]
Have you ever wished your family still had that old necklace your grandmother was wearing in her wedding photo? A new service from New York City-based jewelry company American Pearl takes photos of old jewelry and turns them into 3D digital models. It can then 3D-print and sell those heirlooms to you just like any […]
Add this one to the list of unbelievably cool things Google has in the works: It has filed a patent for a contact lens system that would include built-in cameras. The technology could potentially allow Google to shrink its wearable face computer — known as Google Glass — into the size of a single contact […]
The U.S. government said Monday that it will require new cars and light trucks sold in the United States to have rearview cameras by May 2018, a regulation intended to prevent drivers from backing into pedestrians. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the new requirement will apply to all vehicles under 10,000 pounds (4,500 […]
Today, in news that will make you feel bad about your existence: Texting and tinkering with mobile devices for extended periods of time could make you die sooner, the doctors of the world say. As The Telegraph reports, the hunchback pose that people adopt while staring down at their devices is known to increase the […]
Japan’s Toshiba on Tuesday unveiled a breathalyzer that it says can detect a wide range of diseases just 30 seconds after a person blows into the machine. The device, about the size of a small dishwasher, has a nozzle into which the patient blows several times. It then analyzes the puffs for traces of several […]
I recently bought a box of disinfectant wet wipes to wipe down my phone after subway rides. Maybe you’ve not gone that far, but let’s be honest: Our mobile devices are germ magnets. NueVue is a product for people like me. It’s an iPhone sleeve that claims to eliminate 99.9 percent of bacteria from a […]
Your email just got broken into? Sorry, it’s not personal. It’s business. That may not console you much when you realize that your email account was “pwned” through malware or deceit. But, really, the hackers who went after it probably had nothing against you personally. They were instead focused on potentially profitable uses of your […]