The Man Making Silicon Valley Go Crazy for Hardware
Most gadgets have buttons, but for the San Francisco–based startup Shortcut Labs, the gadget is the button. As Shortcut’s founders imagine it, it could be used as anything from a camera remote to a fridge magnet you push to launch your food-shopping app.
June 29, 2014 at 9:11AM
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At the U.S. border, police can still search your phone without a warrant
For the millions of people, U.S. citizens and non-citizens alike, who cross into the United States each year, there are very few limitations for Customs and Border Protection when it comes to the agency’s ability to search those travelers’ electronic devices.
June 29, 2014 at 9:11AM
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The Supreme Court’s baffling tech illiteracy is becoming a big problem
The problem isn’t that the justices are old fogeys. The problem is that the justices were groomed in a field that emphasizes reasoning by analogy. And analogies were critical in these cases.
June 29, 2014 at 8:05AM
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Facebook Data Scientists Manipulated News Feed To Perform A Psychology Experiment On 600,000 Users
More proof that Facebook isn’t free.
June 29, 2014 at 8:05AM
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Google Analyzes World Cup Data
As the U.S. came close to tying the match with Germany in the final minute of stoppage time at the World Cup, shouts were heard in bars, living rooms and workplaces across the United States. But at one nondescript loft office of a San Francisco design studio in the quaint South Park neighborhood, everyone watching the game was doing so for work.
June 29, 2014 at 1:09AM
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Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devices
Researchers have warned of a vulnerability present on an estimated 86 percent of Android phones that may allow attackers to obtain highly sensitive credentials, including cryptographic keys for some banking services and virtual private networks, and PINs or patterns used to unlock vulnerable devices.
June 28, 2014 at 5:05PM
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Using the Oculus Rift to Find Your Next Car
Going to a car dealership is notoriously fraught with anxiety. How do you know if it’s what you want if you can’t see it with your own eyes? With this new tool for the Oculus Rift, that might not be a problem anymore.
June 28, 2014 at 2:56PM
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Aereo Says It’s Hitting Pause, But Not Going Away
Aereo doesn’t have a lot of options left in the wake of the Supreme Court’s unfavorable ruling this week, which basically declared its entire business model a form of content piracy.
June 28, 2014 at 1:25PM
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HDR Is Ruining Your Photos
High Dynamic Range photography represents the incredible feats that can be accomplished with digital imaging. But! HDR abuse is also responsible for some of the most horrendous displays of photographic over-indulgence. This must stop.
June 28, 2014 at 11:00AM
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The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture
There’s a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It’s a design bug woven into people’s identities and sense of self-worth. Influential and otherwise very smart people will deny till their last breath that it even exists. But I believe it does and should be fixed before it gets any worse.
June 28, 2014 at 9:00AM
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