Technology has the potential to make our lives a lot more pleasant. But have you ever considered all the ways it can be used to make them scarier?Imagine a Jack-O-Lantern that senses when guests are near before going into scare-mode. A skull that shares secrets from the afterlife. A fully...
Tizen-Sunxi Tizen-sunxi is the name of an open-source project that aims to port Tizen to Allwinner A-Series processors. Sunxi represents the family of ARM SoC (System on Chip) processors that are made by Allwinner Tech. Tizen Common We have an updated image of Tizen:Common for A20-OLinuXino-MICRO courtesy of Leon...
Apple’s message this week was loud and clear: Forget everything you thought you knew about the iPhone maker or its mobile products.The plan: Reboot the iPhone product line as a beautiful phablet line, give the larger flagship an even bigger premium sibling, introduce Apple’s first-ever smartwatch, and tackle brand-new categories—from...
The Tizen Samsung Gear S certainly does stand out from the crowd when you look at Smartwatches coming out of IFA. The majority of the rest are based on Android ware and to be honest, I still don't see the attraction. The Gear S, being based on a true...
University students around the country are packing up their cars and making the annual pilgrimage to dorm rooms or sparsely-decorated apartments to kick off the school year. They’re pounding the concrete in Ikea for last-minute bathroom accessories, and hugging their parents goodbye until fall break. The university experience prepares young...
Google Chrome is the most popular Web browser in the world. Part of its appeal comes from its ability to let you fully customize your browsing experience with a slew of extensions. Extensions are small, lightweight programs that personalize your Chrome installation with new features. You’ve probably already downloaded an...
Tizen is now marketed as the Operating System of Everything. To carry through on that promise it is crucial that Tizen is deployed across as many different profiles as possible. Tizen welcomes all Base Support Packages. A few months ago Tizen:Common added support for the ARMv7 architecture. This upstream...
Developers, you have a new smart-home platform to play with. Google's Nest unit has formally unveiled an API (see our API explainer) that will let independent programmers create new applications for the company's smart thermostats and smoke alarms. Nest's press release is embedded below.See also: How A Little Competition Made Thermostats...
Tizen-sunxi is a community driven port of Tizen for devices with Allwinner processors. So far at the git repository of the projects are available instructions for booting Tizen on couple of open-source hardware boards from the OlinuXino family as well as Tizen images for download. Right now Philippe "Rzr"...
If you talk with women who work in technology long enough, the stories eventually come out. A familiar thread of discrimination or gender bias connects their tales—whether they realize it or not.It's hard to weave those stories together into a compelling picture of the challenges women in technology face, though,...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has gotten lotsofattention thanks to its pending multi-billion-dollar U.S. IPO. It seems to have no immediate plans to expand in the U.S.—but that's likely just a matter of time. And when it does, Amazon had better watch out, because Alibaba has a host of ready allies:...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.If you don't already live in a smart home, odds are good that you will before long. When that day comes, your connected residence will be like a member of the family—or, more likely, a butler. Just like Carson on...
Until recently, I kept all my secrets to myself.Sometimes I want to share my thoughts online, but find them too personal for Twitter, and not necessarily appropriate for Facebook. I want to share these thoughts anonymously, either because they’re raw emotions, or because I find them embarrassing for some reason,...
Windows Phone is finally all grown up. Well, almost.To date, Microsoft’s mobile operating system has been an attractive, if somewhat frustrating, member of the Windows family. Windows Phone did all the things a smartphone operating system should—like make calls and texts, download the most popular apps and listen to music and...
If you want to impress your friends, try telling them you’re in the middle of “building an app.” A few billion-dollar acquisitions have turned app-building from a nerdy hobby into an indication that if you can build one, you’re inevitably going places.What we tend to forget, however, is that app...
Gaming dominates the app ecosystem on Android, which is why Google wants to give its game developers a leg up on the competition.As part of the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco, Google announced a bevy of new tools and features for Android game developers to help them...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Alex Hawkinson just wanted some peace of mind. But when he went looking for a simple, affordable way to monitor his family's house when he wasn't around, all he found was frustration.So instead of throwing up his...
Recently, it's become clear that Twitter and Facebook have big ambitions: Twitter wants to be Facebook and Facebook wants to be Twitter.Twitter, essentially a news site, wants to be more friendly. Facebook, essentially a place to hang out with friends, wants to be more newsy. Will either succeed?All The News...
See Also: Facebook Is Trying To Integrate With EverythingTen years and billions of wall posts and embarrassing selfies later, Tuesday marks a full decade of Facebook's existence on the Web. From a Harvard dorm room project to a social network with more than a billion registered users, Facebook has evolved to...
My Raspberry Pi arrived with the evening mail—by midnight, my husband and I had turned it into a working print server. And neither of us had any background in computer science. Raspberry Pi is a computer the size of a credit card that’s so simple, anyone can program it. Designed as...
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