Monday, February 23, 2015

How to Capture and Share Game Video on Your Xbox One or PS4

You just completed the best multiplayer match of your life on your new console. Just a few short years ago, capturing your magnificent moves and sharing them with the world would have been close to impossible, unless you had the right gear and happened to have been recording at exactly the right time.
But the Xbox One and PS4 both make gameplay capture (even after-the-fact gameplay capture) much, much easier. And we’re here to walk you through it.

Xbox One

How to Capture and Share Game Video on Your Xbox One or PS4
1. Snap game DVR or “record that” 

New BlackBerry Phones Can Now Run Android Apps from Amazon

New BlackBerry Phones Can Now Run Android Apps from Amazon

The BlackBerry Passport and other BB10 devices will now be able to run Android apps. Josh Miller/CNET
BlackBerry 10 users can now run BlackBerry apps and Android apps, courtesy of the latest update to the mobile operating system.
Launched on Thursday, BlackBerry 10 OS 10.3.1 provides the usual access to the BlackBerry World app store but also adds entry to theAmazon Appstore, where users can

Saturday, February 21, 2015

How Instagram Photographers Can Make Serious Cash (Hint: It's Not Instagram Who's Paying)



How Instagram Photographers Can Make Serious Cash (Hint: It's Not Instagram Who's Paying)

What’s the best filter to say “filthy rich?” (Image: Thinkstock, photo illustration: Daniel Bean/Yahoo Tech)
Brian DiFeo still remembers the first time he was paid to take an Instagram photo. It was winter 2012, and he was roaming between show tents at Lincoln Center for New York Fashion Week, snapping photos of a little-known fashion label’s handbags.

This Fitness Tracker Monitors Your Sexual Performance, Presumably Ruining It for Everyone


This Fitness Tracker Monitors Your Sexual Performance, Presumably Ruining It for Everyone
You’re in the throes of passion, looking that special someone in the eyes, and just as you lean in for a kiss, she reaches for … her fitness tracker.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

U.S. farmers' $100 billion-a-year profit fades

WASHINGTON — The squeeze on U.S. farmers is getting worse as low crop prices and rising costs erode incomes that not long ago were the highest ever.
Illinois grower Jason Lay said he will buy 30 percent less fertilizer for his 2,500 acres of corn and soybeans, and 7 percent fewer seeds for spring planting. After his most profitable year ever in 2012, Lay said he upgraded his combine, tractor, sprayer and planter. With crop futures now near five- year lows, he has no plans to buy any new equipment.


"You spend when times are prosperous so you don't need to when they're not," Lay, 41, said by telephone from outside Bloomington, Illinois. "That's how you make it through." He estimates his profit is down by a quarter from its peak.

Exclusive - Tesla CEO threatens firings after dismal China sales - sources

By Laurence Frost and Paul Lienert
PARIS/DETROIT (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk is prepared to fire overseas executives, people with knowledge of the matter said, after weak Chinese sales of the company's luxury electric cars cast doubt on his ambitious global expansion plans.
Tesla sold about 120 cars in China last month, one of the sources told Reuters, well below the company's aggressive targets. Musk has previously said he expected China sales could rival those in the United States as early as 2015.Two top China managers left the company in 2014, Tesla said last year. Musk indicated other country managers who are not meeting targets may lose their jobs, the sources said.

Monday, February 9, 2015

New search engine exposes the "dark web"

Memex, a powerful new search tool that goes beyond the realm of Google, Yahoo, and Bing, is launched by DARPA
This week on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl and producer Shachar Bar-On got an early look at Memex, a powerful new search engine developed by DARPA, the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The inventor of Memex, Chris White, sat down with Stahl and Bar-On and explained how Memex works--and how it could revolutionize law enforcement investigations. (See Chris White's demonstration in the video player above.)

How to tell if your smartphone's battery is healthy or bad (iPhone and Android guide)

How to tell if your smartphone's battery is healthy or bad (iPhone and Android guide)
A smartphone without a battery is like a time machine without a 1.21-gigawatt nuclear power source. In other words, it is useless – the battery is what provides that magic juice every smartphone needs to operate. 

Unfortunately, even if you take good care of your smartphone's battery, it will inevitably degrade over time and lose some of its charge capacity. At that point, it might be hard to tell if the cell is still in good health or in need of a replacement. That's why we thought we'd share a few tips on the matter.

Samsung's warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter

Technically Incorrect: Samsung's small print says that its Smart TV's voice recognition system will not only capture your private conversations, but also pass them onto third parties.
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

How Steve Jobs almost leaked the original iPhone's existence to a FedEx worker

How Steve Jobs almost leaked the original iPhone's existence to a FedEx worker

Alessia Pierdomenico / Reuters
When Apple acquired the domain name iPhone.org in December 1999, it set off eight years of rumors and speculation about Apple's mysterious iPhone.

Led by Tinder, mobile dating game surges

The popularity of websites such as Match.com and eHarmony has spawned a whole stable of mobile-phone apps designed for simple, smartphone-based dating.

The New York Times

Bless or curse the smartphone, but you can’t doubt its impact. Even digital dating has become a handheld activity.
Online dating, long dominated by big outfits like Match.com and eHarmony, has in the past two years been transformed by the rise of Tinder, the mobile-phone app that lets its users scan photos and short profiles of potential dates.

Friday, February 6, 2015

We're big fans of 2014's Nexus 6Samsung Galaxy S5,Samsung Galaxy Note 4HTC One M8, LG G3, Sony Xperia Z3 and iPhone 6, but we're more impressed by what's to come this year. Here we reveal the 16 upcoming smartphones that you should be most excited about in 2015. Also see the best new tablets you should be most excited about in 2015.

Best new smartphones 2015: Samsung Galaxy S6

Leaked Galaxy S6 photo shows dual-edged handset

Summary:Images leaked to ZDNet Korea show what could be the next Samsung Galaxy flagship S6 and Galaxy Edge handsets.
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ZDNet Korea and CNET Korea have obtained an exclusive photo from sources at South Korean distributors of Samsung Electronics' handsets of what looks like the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 "Edge".
The photo shows five phones with "Galaxy S6" and "Galaxy Edge" written at the top-right side.
Five phones that appear to be the Galaxy S6 and its dual-edged version, called Galaxy Edge. (Image: ZDNet Korea/CNET Korea)

Octopus robot makes waves with ultra-fast propulsion

Octopus robot makes waves with ultra-fast propulsion

Scientists have developed an octopus-like robot, which can zoom through water with ultra-fast propulsion and acceleration never before seen in man-made underwater vehicles.

Most fast aquatic animals are sleek and slender to help them move easily through the water but cephalopods, such as the octopus, are capable of high-speed escapes by filling their bodies with water and then quickly expelling it to dart away.

Harvard Business Review: Apple is in trouble and it’s trying to hide it by reporting record profits


Harvard Business Review: Apple is in trouble and it’s trying to hide it by reporting record profitsHarvard Business Review: Apple is in trouble and it’s trying to hide it by reporting record profits
When Apple announced its record-crushing earnings last week, we wondered where were all the people who had been doom-mongering about the company for the past couple of years. While it seemed at the time that “Apple-is-doomed” hot takes had fallen out of favor, Professor Juan Pablo Vazquez Sampere gives it the old college try

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the new Century

1 Introduction
 In the past few decades there has been a revolution in computing and communications, and all indications are that technological progress and use of information technology will continue at a rapid pace. Accompanying and supporting the dramatic increases in the power and use of new information technologies has been the declining cost of communications as a result of both technological improvements and increased competition.

Lenovo steers Motorola to record smartphone sales

Motorola sold more than 10 million handsets during the third quarter of 2014, marking a new company sales record, and helping to drive new owner Lenovo to increased revenues. The figures show the impact of Motorola on Chinese giant Lenovo, the largest PC manufacturer in the world, which said it planned to make one-third of its revenue from smartphone sales after it purchased Motorola from Google last year, in a deal worth $2.91 billion.

Great, another 'solution' to your smartphone's terrible battery life


If you want your smartphone to last longer without carrying flammable gas in your pocket, there may possibly, conceivably be new battery tech coming soon (maybe). Yep, we're skeptical after many a disappointing "breakthrough,"

Top 10 Upcoming Rumored Smartphones Expected To Launch in 2015

Samsung Galaxy FThe smartphone juggernaut keeps on rolling in full pride. We are past the days when phones looked like walkie-talkies and weighed like a brick, and into a generation when feature phones don't even exist. And with the future bright for the industry, expect more new innovations in the pipeline.

16 best new phones you should be most excited about in 2015

We're big fans of 2014's Nexus 6Samsung Galaxy S5,Samsung Galaxy Note 4HTC One M8, LG G3, Sony Xperia Z3 and iPhone 6, but we're more impressed by what's to come this year. Here we reveal the 16 upcoming smartphones that you should be most excited about in 2015. Also see the best new tablets you should be most excited about in 2015.Best new phones 2014

Best new smartphones 2015: Samsung Galaxy S6