The foc.us headset. Ars Technica SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Earlier this week, Ars showed up at a demo day for the painful-to-read HAXLR8R (pronounced hack-celerator), a startup accelerator program that takes ten teams of entrepreneurs, gives them $25,000, and flies them between San Francisco and Shenzhen to work on a hardware-based product of their design. Most of the products were still in progress, so many teams spent demo … [Read more...]
The Arduino Yún (Yún means "cloud" in Chinese.) Arduino At today’s Bay Area Maker Fair, Arduino announced its newest board—the Arduino Yún. The board is an Arduino Leonardo running Linino, a Linux fork based on OpenWRT. The board is Wi-Fi capable, which Arduino hopes will encourage people to use the boards to make cloud-ready projects. In an official statement the company explained: “Historically, interfacing … [Read more...]
A "Russian Tokarev TT-34 Atomiser" that is "very reliable on the lunar battlefield." Shannon Ocean This week, a handful of Ars staffers gathered in San Francisco to see the new Star Trek movie at Starfleet Headquarters. (OK, just kidding, we saw the movie at the local Metreon. Most of us were there for Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference.) Besides Google's conference and the rare sight of more than … [Read more...]
Today a bipartisan Congressional privacy caucus sent Google a letter with eight questions regarding a topic that's caused a lot of speculation: how will privacy be protected by Google Glass? The headsets can take photos and video in a more discreet manner than raising a smartphone or a camera and pointing it in the direction of a subject. Advances in facial recognition technology, as well as the wealth of data that Google has collected through … [Read more...]
Yesterday, Google announced its new, beefier Hangouts app for Android phones. The newest iteration integrates video chatting, Gmail, and Google's late “Google Talk” app all into one. Hangouts is available for free on all Android devices running Android 2.3 or higher, but if you pay phone bills to AT&T, you can forget about that video chat for now. Slashgear reports that customers trying to access video chat on AT&T are met with a message … [Read more...]
Google will announce a new, subscription-based music service tomorrow at Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference. Sources close to the matter told The Verge that Google signed separate licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The company would use those deals to add music subscription services to both YouTube and Google Play. This effort would take on subscription-based music streaming services like … [Read more...]
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Facebook simplifies sharing for iOS appsCNETMonday, the social network simplified the process for sharing activities from third-party iOS apps to Facebook. The company rolled out something called the "Share Dialog," previously in beta, for it…
RedOrbitSamsung Offering $800K for Galaxy S 4 Apps ChallengePC MagazineCalling all Android developers — if you have a great idea for an app, then you could win cold hard cash from Samsung. The electronics giant on Monday announced its Smart App Chall…
Ars TechnicaAT&T Will Begin Enabling Pre-Loaded Video Chat Apps, Like Hangouts, For …TechCrunchAs AT&T comes under the gun for blocking Google's new video chat app Hangouts on its cellular network, the company is today hoping to put a bet…
