NASA Created A Virtual Mars You Can Walk Around On Using Oculus Rift
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory signed up for a dev kit as soon as they could, cobbled the Rift together with a stereoscopic 360-degree panorama of Mars obtained from Curiosity, strapped on the VR...
View ArticleThese Are The Games You Can Play On The New Xbox One
The Xbox One will have 23 games for you to play at launch this November. Here's the full list.
View ArticleApple Offering 'Last Compatible Version' Of iOS Apps For Ancient Devices
With iOS 7 arriving tomorrow, Apple is extending some love to the owners of older iOS devices that have been left behind.
View ArticleModders Turn Piano Into 'Doom' Controller
If the timeline on David Hayward's Vine account is accurate, a crew of what appear to be professional tinkerers has turned one old piano into an awkward keyboard in little more than 24 hours.
View ArticleVerizon Wireless Website Reportedly Allowing Users To Keep Unlimited Data...
Apparently, now is the time to upgrade your Verizon phone if you want to keep your grandfathered unlimited data plan in tact.
View ArticleDARPA-Funded Four-Legged Sprinting Robot Is Freed
The last time we saw the sprinting "Cheetah" robot, our fear for the future of humanity was soothed slightly by the knowledge that it remained tethered to the offboard hydraulic pumps it relied on for...
View ArticleNexus 5 Briefly Appears In The Play Store
We still haven't heard anything official about Google's next Nexus phone, but last night some people saw the Nexus 5 as an option in the Play Store.
View ArticleAncient LaserDisc Is A Treasure Trove Of Unreleased Star Wars Footage
They say you can't put a price on happiness, but we bet the Star Wars fan(s) who bought this LaserDisc off eBay didn't mind paying $699 for 30 minutes of bliss.
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Now Lets You See Which Tab That Unwanted Music Is Coming From
Sometimes you just want to look up a restaurant menu at work without your coworkers knowing you're slacking off. Thanks to a new Google Chrome feature, if you click on a site that auto-plays music or...
View ArticleFrom 'Battlefield' To 'Mass Effect': How One Engine Is Shaping The Future Of...
Frostbite Engine 3 is the next-gen toolset powering all of Electronic Arts' non-sports games for the foreseeable future.
View ArticleGoogle's 'Sneak Peak' Of Glass Development Kit Shows Glassware Can Be Useful
The newly released Glass Development Kit (or at least an extremely early version of it) puts many more arrows in the quiver of coders.
View ArticleHow The Internet Ruined Game Consoles
Even for those of us who grew up with PCs, the state of modern game consoles is a sad one when it comes to what's inside the packaging.
View ArticleA Farewell Trip On Singapore 21, The World's Longest Flight
As of tomorrow, the longest flight in the world will shuttle passengers on a 747-400 from Dallas, Texas to Sydney, Australia. That 15-hour, 25-minute hop on board Qantas 7 may not be the lengthiest in...
View ArticleValve: The Future Of Virtual Reality Is Just One Year Away
"Not only could VR rapidly evolve into a major platform, but it could actually tip the balance of the entire industry from traditional media toward computer entertainment," said Valve VR lead Michael...
View ArticleTesla's Toy Boat
In 1898, Tesla amazed crowds by using a small, radio-transmitting control box to maneuver a tiny ship about a pool of water and even flash its running lights on and off, all without any visible...
View ArticleKorean Carriers To Launch Broadband-Shaming 300Mbps LTE-Advanced Network
Most of us in Europe and North America try not think about how much we're getting smoked by Asia in terms of internet speeds, but here's another reminder: residents in South Korea will soon enjoy...
View ArticleDo You Really Need A 4K Smartphone Screen?
Are higher pixel counts worth the manufacturing cost and effort?
View ArticleThe Google Glass App That Tells You How Others Are Feeling
It's not always easy to read someone's emotions — and that's a problem for retailers, which can't easily tell if their products intrigue you or simply confuse you. They may not have to guess for much...
View ArticleApple Drops iPhone Return Policy Back To 14 Days
At some point several years ago Apple decided to offer a much more generous return policy for the iPhone than it did for other products, bumping it from 14 days to 30 days. Over the last couple of...
View ArticleYour Bank Will Pay Microsoft To Keep Running Its ATMs
Believe it or not, roughly 95 percent of ATMs in the world are still running Windows XP -- and that's about to become an expensive problem.
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