An indictment filed in federal court today reveals that Microsoft snooped through a blogger’s Hotmail account trying to plug an internal leak of pre-release Windows 8 software. That sounds like an outrageous violation of privacy because that’s exactly what it is. Microsoft claims they had the legal right under its terms of service.
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Battery-saving software on a phone tends to have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer — it either waits until you’re low on power to do anything, or limits functionality at all times. Apple may eventually take a smarter approach, if a newly published…
Energy-efficient LEDs have only just started replacing the energy-wasting incandescent bulbs we’ve been using for decades. But did you know that LEDs date all the way back to 1962? Most people don’t, but this modern lamp designed to look like Nick Holonyak Jr.’s original LED design should help educate the masses—or anyone who visits your pad.
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It’s no mystery that government agencies compel tech companies to give them (totally legal) access to user data. It’s also pretty well known that the tech companies charge the government for the trouble. We’ve just never really known how much—until now.
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has come out with an open letter extolling the virtues of net neutrality because, well duh. Also mentioned is how much Netflix really didn’t want to sign a deal the devil Comcast, but if everyone’s favorite merger in process
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Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage looks on during a February tour of the giant TV's construction.
(Credit: Sarah Glenn/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway)
They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and now they have the TV to prove it.
The “Big Hoss” TV was turned on for the first time in front of a live audience Wednesday night at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. The screen, built by Panasonic, measures 218 feet wide by 94.6 feet tall. That means it’s longer than Boeing’s biggest 767 (the 400ER), and taller than a seven-story building. To put it in home electronics terms, it’s a 2,852-inch TV. The display features 20,633.64 square feet of HD LED lights that broadcast 4.8 million pixels and 281 trillion colors.
The TV has a 140-degree viewing angle so it can be seen by people in a large swath of seats at the Speedway, and it takes a crew of five people to operate it from within the attached control room. The screen is also allegedly able to handle wind speeds of up to 120 mph, as well as impacts from projectiles like hail, something that was confirmed by workers hitting golf balls at the LEDs, according to ESPN.
Leap Motion won a lot of buzz early on for its motion controller, which is designed to make it possible for users to interact with their computer through gestures alone. The early buzz and pre-order interest led to a lot of growth, with the company swelling to 120 employees at its peak. But disappointing reviews when the hardware actually shipped took some of the wind out of the startup’s… Read More
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix has finally chimed in with his own statement about net neutrality and the deal his company struck with Comcast. As written in a blog post, the traditional standards recently overturned by a Verizon lawsuit (which…
The innovation being displayed this week at GDC 2014 is not limited to software. Devices like “A Dozen Sliders” are lighting up the halls of the Moscone Center with odd … Continue reading
All social issues aside, Google Glass is an impressive kit of technology. However, that might not be enough to secure its future. The novel PR campaign that is the Google Glass Explorer program seems to be failing. So much so that Google has started firing back at Google Glass haters with a series of pro-Glass factoids. Read More
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