Developer Nathan Broadbent apparently felt that his microwave wasn’t doing enough by simply heating up his food, so he hacked it. More specifically, he combined it with a Raspberry Pi micro-computer (the type frequently used...
Smartphones have noticeably outsold tablets since iPads were first introduced to the market, but the gap between the two types of mobile devices has been shrinking considerably, especially as most people who are going to buy a sma...
3D printing is all the rage these days, and eBay isn’t wasting any time in hopping on that bandwagon. The company just launched a brand new mobile app (currently available exclusively for iPhone users) that lets shoppers buy...
A couple of months ago, a Google researcher named Tavis Ormandy uncovered a severe flaw in Windows and then took it to the web to inform the public. This raised the ire of some (especially Microsoft), because the research didnR...
BlackBerry users in India may want to start looking for a new mobile device. It seems that BlackBerry, which was actually almost banned in India in 2010, has reached some sort of agreement with the Indian government loosely relate...
Last year, NSA director General Keith Alexander gave the keynote (and recruitment-focused) speech at Def Con, the world’s largest hacking conference and an event that is known for obscuring the social and professional bounda...
Some people really like to work on their sports cars; others are really into souped-up motorcycles. But for U.K. resident Matt McKeown, it’s all about powerful, high-octane shopping carts. The 52-year-old McKeown recently br...
A new video from MobileBeat 2013 shows off a prototype smartphone from Samsung, and it’s…interesting. The most notable feature of the new device is a pair of fold-out panels that will actually change colors depending o...
According to European reporters from Reuters that have seen a recent a draft of an action plan compiled by Western governments, a number of countries are setting their collective sights on massive technology companies, including A...
Zurich scientists have been building and experimenting with super small robots that can be used to help perform incredibly delicate surgical procedures on humans. The body on these nanobots is just a quarter-millimeter in diameter...
Even if you’re not a regular, chances are you’ve heard of Reddit at some point. Especially if you live in the United States, where around six percent of American adults say they’ve visited the social news site, a...
Some smartphone manufacturers are starting to see their sales numbers decrease steadily, since almost every person in the world that is able to afford an expensive, high-end smartphone (which provide many of these companies with m...
According to the German news website Horizont, Google struck a deal with Eyeo, the company behind the extremely popular Adblock Plus add-on for web browsers. It seems that Google, along with a few other unnamed companies, has been...
It’s safe to say that the NSA is pretty low on the list of most people’s favorite government organizations these days (if people even make lists like that), but recent reports are also calling into question Google̵...
Love is bittersweet, and that’s a lesson that Apple is learning the hard way when it comes to its relationships with iPhone owners. It seems that while the iPhone 5 is the best-selling smartphone in the world, a recent study...
