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Prominent figures set up Bitcoin ALS funding campaign
Most readers are probably well aware of the Ice Bucket Challenge by now. But if you’re still in the dark about why so many celebrities, everyday people, and even big technology company CEOs are dumping buckets of ice water over themselves, it’s because they are raising awareness and funds for a neurodegenerative disease known as ...
Smart Living: Samsung’s vibrating necklace + connected devices
This week’s Smart Living roundup features a vibrating notification headset, funding for a smart home startup, and a tracking device that has no monthly fee. Samsung Gear Circle Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. recently unveiled two new wearable devices, the Samsung Gear S which is a new addition to its smartwatch line, and the Gear ...
Smart World Weekly: Safer roads, smarter robots and tiny modems
This week’s Smart World Series features smarter roads and homes, fresh funding for wearable health devices, smarter office robots, and new tools for developers. For those who missed this week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world. Each week, SiliconANGLE rounds up the top news ...
Is your Bitcoin wallet insured from hackers?
People love Bitcoin for lots of different reasons, whether its the lack of fees, the anonymity, the investment potential or something else. But unfortunately, hackers love Bitcoin for exactly the same reasons – and of course, once a Bitcoin has been succesfully pinched, it’s almost impossible to trace. Regular SiliconANGLE readers will know there have ...
Tiny modems, new kits for IoT developers
This week’s Smart DevOps roundup features the latest development kit for Internet of Things (IoT) app makers, an updated IoT applications site, and a new IoT modem. Broadcom unveils new WICED Sense development kit Broadcom Corp. introduced a new development kit into its Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) family that will enable ...
Connected couture: 5 real designers at the intersection of fashion and tech
From flying cars to colonizing other planets, we’ve all envisioned what our future might look like. But have you ever wondered how our clothes will change in the next decade? Will we be wearing spacesuits with oxygen tanks because our air is so polluted? Or will our smartphones evolve into the very fabrics we wear, keeping ...
Charity group wants to battle Ebola virus with Bitcoin
Four countries in West Africa are currently in lock down over the ebola virus outbreak, and measures have been put in place to prevent it spreading to other countries. The BBC reports the outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has already infected an estimated 2,615 people with around 1,400 of those dying from the ...
Smarter robots, armbands and new MDM solutions for connected offices
This week’s Smart City roundup features smarter workplaces with wearable tech, a way to make robots intelligent, and a new collaboration offering for easy mobile device management in the enterprise. Myo armband invades the workplace Thalmic Labs, Inc. introduced the Myo armband last year as was seen as a technology that could push gesture ...
Old iPhones worth $280 on average: Here’s where to sell
With Apple Inc.’s iPhone 6 is expected to drop on September 9, it’s the prime opportunity to get rid of your old iPhone. Last year, we featured the best places to trade your old iPhone for cash or a newer version of the popular smartphone, and we’ve updated the list for 2014. Before we get started, here’s a ...
While we wait for Apple’s iWatch, wearable tech progresses for those with Parkinson’s
This week’s Smart Health round up features the latest news developments for a long-rumored smartwatch, fresh funds for a wearable tech health startup, and trackers that do more than count steps. Apple postpones iWatch until 2015 Fanboys around the world were hopeful for Apple, Inc. to unveil its rumored iWatch next month, but they ...