On Friday we ran a story about using sugar in rechargeable batteries, but no worries here we aren't suggesting that you rub potatoes on your electronics. Alpine Innovations released a new type of cleaner for monitors, laptops, screens and other electronic devices earlier this month at CES. The new Spudz product line includes the patented [...]
By now we are all too familiar with the 2013 Target holiday data breach security experts have suggested that the data thieves in the case of the nation's second largest discount department store chain, have topped 110 million customers. The data in the Target breach was obtained through malware injected into the company's point of [...]
VaryCode is an all-in-one programming code converter. VaryCode's Makerting Manager told us that the application is "a kind of Google Translate between seven major programming languages: C#, Visual Basic .Net, Java, C++, Ruby, Python and Boo."
It's not just the Xbox One and the PS4, the cry that there aren't enough launch titles has faced every new system that's come to market since the Super Nintendo. Developers and manufacturers aren't going to sink millions and millions of dollars into a system until they're 100% sure that the system is going to [...]
Update 2:47pm: Gmail is back again this time with more functionality then 15 minutes ago. You can now send messages. Don't hold your breath though Gmail is still showing up as problematic on the Google Apps Dashboard. Update 2:40pm: Gmail is again totally down. Update: 2:33pm: Gmail will let you in now and let [...]
Google has been known for it's bonuses that it pays for real world hackers who find exploits in their products and services, reports them and then replicates them. Bonus payments have often ranged between $1000 and $10,000 with the $10,000 prizes being saved for what Google calls "particularly significant contributions." Google initially debuted the bug bounty [...]
Samsung has introduced some new color schemes for the Galaxy Note 3. The popular phablet will be available in various two tone color schemes on a number of international carriers, but what about the US? Well Phandroid reported earlier that highly reliable samsung source @evleaks had previously reported that the rose gold color scheme would [...]
Anker has developed an ingenious way to solve the compatibility problem with PowerIQ. Essentially, PowerIQ is a chip embedded in the charger or battery that, "intelligently identifies your device and speaks with the language it needs for full speed charging."
If you need to know how much mobile malware has infected Android you can always count on Apple's marketing honcho Phil Schiller. 9to5mac reported on Tuesday, that Schiller had posted results of Cisco's 2014 annual security report to his Twitter account. It was that report that highlighted just how bad mobile malware is on the [...]
It looks like sugar is going to play a major role in the next generation of batteries. According to a newly published research paper, "Sugar-powered biobatteries could serve as next-generation green power sources, particularly for portable electronics." The battery developed by the research team, "has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable."
