The Nike+ Running app will let users track their routes and get “cheers” from Facebook friends while leaving their phones at home
Facebook is testing a way to let users of its mobile app search for posts shared with them in the past. The tool is designed to let people find posts that otherwise might get lost in the mix. With the update, users can search for posts they’ve previously seen on Facebook from friends and the Pages to which they’re connected. People who have access to the update can search for, say, “kayak trip John Smith,” and a previous post that the user saw in his or her feed about the trip might pop up. “We’re testing an improvement to search on mobile,” a Facebook spokeswoman said. “In this test you can use keywords to search for posts you’re in the audience for on Facebook.”
A September announcement seems likely, but a 2014 launch doesn't
The Here beta is part of a licensing deal to tie people into Samsung's Tizen-powered Gear S watch.
The first thing you notice about Alienware's new Area-51 refresh is that it's But let's talk the interior first. Underneath the hood, the 2014 incarnation of the Area-51 is a beastly machine. Alienware's announcement matches up with some other news you might've read this morning—Intel's
Mozilla's Sponsored Tiles are only meant to appear if you don't have a browsing history, as typically the new tab page shows the sites you visit most often.
Motorola's next flagship phone lands next week. Here's everything we know about it.
Let’s cut to the chase: For many people, PC gaming is synonymous with Steam. Valve’s ubiquitous gaming client is both storefront and service, delivering a one-stop shop for buying games, playing and managing those games, and even building out a friends list to chat with while you game. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Steam’s rife with hidden features that can help you get more out of your PC gaming experience—tricks that few people ever touch. Here are some of the most useful. Let’s start with a powerful yet quietly advertised feature that has revolutionized the way I play games around the house: Steam in-home streaming.
Lumia, Lumia, Lumia. Lest you forget that Microsoft’s Windows Phone business is more than a single Nokia product line, HTC has released the One (M8) for Windows. It's just as much a flagship phone as the Android version of the One (M8), and in some ways it feels even fresher thanks to the fact it runs Windows Phone 8.1, a veritable OS curiosity. In fact, the HTC One (M8) for Windows might be the best Windows Phone available—but that’s simply because not many Windows Phone devices have been released lately. And let's not lose perspective: Most people will probably conclude that the
For two years, Google has quietly been developing autonomous flying vehicles that can be used to deliver packages for disaster relief or for commerce purposes, the company revealed Thursday. The program, dubbed Project Wing, has been housed under Google X, the company’s secretive facility where it created other projects like Google Glass and its self-driving cars. “Self-flying vehicles could open up entirely new approaches to moving goods—including options that are cheaper, faster, less wasteful and more environmentally sensitive than what’s possible today,” the company says in a document describing the effort. The drones are designed to follow a pre-programmed route at the push of a button, flying at 40 to 60 meters above the ground.
It seems like poaching drivers is par for the course in the ride-sharing industry. Like Lyft, Sidecar drivers have also been targeted by Uber’s recruitment efforts, Sidecar’s CEO said Thursday—though he admitted that his own company has tried in-car recruitment in the past too. Recruiters working for Uber have been ordering rides with Sidecar for some time then trying to get the driver to switch companies, Sidecar CEO Sunil Paul said in an interview. It’s happened in nearly all of the 10 cities where Sidecar operates, and recruiters sometimes offer drivers $500 to make the switch, he said. Sidecar knows about the recruitment efforts because it hears about them from its drivers, Paul said. It hasn’t received reports about Lyft using similar techniques.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a “global compact” on surveillance and the use of collected data, saying the U.S. isn’t the only country that does it and American technology companies are unfairly targeted for the government’s actions. “The U.S. government doesn’t use information for commercial purposes,” while other countries do, Clinton said. “We need to make it clear to other countries that our technology companies are not part of our government, and that we have more legal processes than any other country that I’m aware of” covering government requests for information, Clinton said during her appearance at the Nexenta OpenSDx Summit, a technology conference in San Francisco.
