Monthly Archives: April 2016

The National Traffic Safety Administration is tweeting people to stop texting and driving

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Let’s face it, texting and driving is really dangerous no matter how good you think you might be at “multitasking”. Would you juggle knives while texting? Well, you get the point.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA is attacking the problem the best way it possibly can. By targeting those who openly admit to texting and driving on Twitter, and there seems to be a lot of drivers who do! The NHTSA is actually tweeting directly at these drivers and putting them on the spot.

Um, agreed @Domie_D23. Please realize you’re putting yourself and others in danger, and a…

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Solid State Device And System Announcements

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New announcements of solid-state memory/storage devices for various computer and embedded application are flourishing, driven by lower prices for solid-state storage and thus favorable trade-offs between performance and costs. Larger MRAM will create a new generation of devices and systems with persistent memory.

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This modder got 64GB of internal storage on his Nexus 5 by replacing the eMMC chip

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XDA member KApetz2 decided he loved every bit of his Nexus 5 so much, but hated that he didn’t have more than 32GB of internal storage. So he did what every modder does, he took matters into his own hands and bought a 64GB eMMC chip and changed the damn memory himself.

KApetz2 bought a 64GB chip online and figured he could swap out the memory chip in the logic board and gain double the internal storage space. This, however, is not the case. While it is not physically impossible to swap such a chip, it is, however, not as simple as it sounds. The firmware in the device needs to know…

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Apple Loop: New Glass iPhone Leaks, Apple’s Broken Organization, iPhone’s Three-Year Deadline

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This week’s Apple Loop includes the all-glass iPhone design, fixing a nasty surprise in iOS 9.3.1, Apple’s boring MacBook updates, the three-year upgrade cycle on your iPhone, Siri announcing WWDC 2016, impressive iPad streaming numbers from Major League Baseball, Ben Thompson’s analysis of Apple’s internal organisation, and the arrival of Exploding Kittens on iOS.

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