You 2be?   The founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, just launched Mixbit, their latest video venture. With this project, they seem to have their targets set directly on Vine and Instagram. Using the newly available iOS app, you’ll be able to record up to sixteen seconds of video, similar to its social ...

U.S.Ads!   It appears that Motorola will celebrate this year’s independence day by promoting a new American-made smartphone, the Motorola X. With full page ads running in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, it will be hard to ignore Motorola’s message. The ad will clearly state that the upcoming ...

Condescending To Your Most Capable Customers…   In the past, Google hasn’t been very clear about Chrome’s password security, and their lack of attention to the problem has increasingly drawn more criticism from security experts. Everyday, millions of Chrome users save their login passwords in chrome. What the vast majority of them don’t know is ...

Leave it to Wall Street to Sellout…   The 135 year old Washington Post seems to have finally lost its edge against electronic media, with the decision to sell their flagship newspaper. Jeff Bezos purchased the newspaper ending the Graham family’s ownership of the news organizations after four generations. Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, ...

Protectionism Unseeen Since Reagan   The Obama administration has vetoed a Trade Commission order that would have banned Apple from importing a number of older model iPhones and iPads that violate patents owned by Samsung. The use of this executive power came as a surprise, as it rarely happens. The last presidential veto of a ...

Like A Puz-3D…Remember Those?   The minds at Disney Research labs in Zurich have developed a new program that can use 2D photos to build 3D models. By combining hundreds of images through a specifically-designed algorithm, the program is able to create 3D models of complex, real-life scenes for use in movies and games, or ...

Takin’ Selfies   For individuals who want to record everything, a new life-logging camera will be hitting markets tomorrow all throughout Europe. Priced at 400 pounds, OMG Life’s Autographer is described as the world’s first intelligent wearable camera. Instead of working like a traditional point and shoot camera, the Autographer is worn, and it operates ...

Brute Force   If you think “nobody’s going to try all 10,000 combinations” to crack your smartphone’s four-digit PIN code, then you’re wrong. A new 3D printed robot has been designed to punch codes into phones at a rate of one per second, making it possible to crack any Android device in under twenty hours. ...

This Should Upset Angie’s List   A new product coming out of Google’s Mountain View testing facility could become the first marketplace where people can buy and sell services via live video. The new product, reportedly named “Helpouts”, has been quietly developed by Google as a new platform which leverages powerful cloud services to power ...

Keeping Your Voice On The Cloud   Swiftkey cloud, a new feature for the Swiftkey keyboard replacement app, has officially entered into beta. The line-up of new features includes dictionary backups, the ability to sync devices, and a feature that provides access to trending phrases. The more you use Swiftkey, the more the app learns ...