Strategically placed battery-powered cameras will provide real-time alerts to designated residents' smartphones.
Researchers at NASA and the University of California at Berkeley are developing a robot that’s robust enough to be dropped directly onto planets and go straight to work. Current missions to Mars have been complex affairs, typically using parachutes to guide robots and their delicate scientific instruments down to the surface. In 2012, things got even more high-tech when the space agency used a hovering platform to lower the Mars Rover onto the planet. This prototype tensegrity robot developed by UC Berkeley can bounce, roll around by adjusting tension on cables.
The TV manufacturer is buying into Dolby Vision technology, and it hopes you'll do the same.
Apple has purchased LinX Imaging, an Israeli company that makes multi-lens cameras for smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks. A distinguishing feature of LinX’s cameras are their small size. Its cameras “are nearly half the height of a standard mobile camera,” Smaller components could help Apple since the company is known for slimming down its hardware. For example, Apple’s new MacBook replaces the traditional USB Type-B ports and power jack with
One of the main arguments for the trade groups and ISPs that have filed six—yes, six—lawsuits against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules is that the agency violated a 69-year-old administrative procedure law in crafting the new regulations. The two ISPs and four trade groups filing lawsuits in recent days have challenged the FCC’s decision—as part of the new net neutrality rules—to reclassify broadband as a regulated, common-carrier service, instead of its long-standing classification of broadband as a lightly regulated information service. The plaintiffs, in addition to accusing the FCC of violating administrative procedure, will argue the agency violated ISPs’ constitutional rights.
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It may be the most amazing MacBook yet, but as you no doubt expected, Apple's new Per their custom, the teardown masters at In fact, iFixit gave the 12-inch MacBook one of the worst repairability scores possible at 1 out of 10, with 10 being the easiest to repair.
Google says it’s launching a child-friendly version of the Android app store in a few weeks, and is seeking developers to help build it. Developers can submit their apps if they meet certain advertising and content guidelines. Google will then display these apps in a “new family experience so that parents can find suitable, trusted, high-quality apps and games more easily,” the company It’s unclear exactly how the Designed for Families section will work, but Google says it will offer apps in six categories: Action & Adventure, Brain Games, Creativity, Education, Music and Video, and Pretend Play. The existing “Family Games” section of the Play Store will be deprecated in 2015.
Netflix is making its shows more accessible for the blind. The company recently announced plans to add audio descriptions (also known as video descriptions) to its original television series. The first title to get the new accessibility option is, fittingly, Audio descriptions are audio tracks that describe the on screen action in detail between dialogue. Here's an example from one episode of Netflix's new series: "Matt [Murdock
This year the number of 4K TVs sold around the world will almost triple. Those sales, along with more mature equipment for producing and distributing content, are fueling overall interest in the technology. Being a TV broadcaster has become a lot more complicated in the last couple of years. The broadcasters have to compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon, and younger viewers, in particular, are abandoning TV for a combination of laptops, tablets and smartphones. This week the broadcast industry is gathering in Las Vegas for the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) conference, to see what equipment vendors have to offer to help them compete.