LG promises to stop your Smart TV spying on you
In light of accusations that its Smart TVs were sending private data to its servers, LG has admitted that some of its sets are behaving in ways they shouldn’t be. In a statement, the Korean...
View ArticleHands-on with Dustcloud, a game that lets you virtually shoot your friends…...
It’s monday morning at your local coffee shop, and you pause over your vanilla latte to ponder another customer. That face, you think to yourself, I know it. Whipping out your smartphone you check a...
View ArticleRoadie tunes your guitar for you, tells you when your strings are about to...
Unless you’ve traded your guitar strings for an axe-shaped MIDI controller, tuning your guitar is probably one of those chores you’ve just learned to deal with. It’s hardly the bane of any guitarist’s...
View ArticleGoogle Wallet lets you capture credit card info with your smartphone camera
The contents of your wallet are under attack. Earlier this month Coin swept in threatening to eliminate the need for all of your beloved non-cash payment methods and now Google Wallet is making it...
View ArticleGoogle+ for iOS gets full-res photo backups, lets you share your location
After nearly a month, Google is delivering on its promise of bringing full-size photo and video backups to Google+ on iOS. The app’s version 4.6 update now lets iOS 7 users upload imagery at its...
View ArticleRocki turns your old sound system into WiFi-enabled speakers
The Rocki concept has been floating around for a bit, but now the company’s ready for the hardware startup rite of passage that is the Kickstarter campaign. The idea’s a pretty straightforward one: a...
View ArticleChromecast stand-in CheapCast now beams browser tabs to your display
CheapCast is a great way to get some of Chromecast’s functionality for free, sure, but it’s been lacking a few of the Google dongle’s features since the app launched. If you’ve been hankering to beam...
View ArticleTarget wants to improve your shopping by fueling Indian technology startups
We usually associate Target more with bargain pricing than technology leadership, but the big-box retailer is about to defy those expectations with plans for a startup incubator in Bangalore, India....
View ArticleMLB releases Franchise MVP for Android, lets you live your baseball fantasies
The World Series is over, and it’s a long three months before Spring Training begins. What’s a baseball fan to do until then? Well, if you’re an Android user, you could pick up Franchise MVP, a new...
View ArticleText message exploit can force your Nexus phone to reboot
Watch out if someone sends a flood of text messages to your Nexus phone — they may be trying to break in. IT administrator Bogdan Alecu has discovered an Android bug that triggers exploitable behavior...
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