Apple announces CarPlay, an iOS experience on four wheels

Apple isn’t leaving the car infotainment system industry to other players like BlackBerry’s QNX or Microsoft’s Windows Embedded. It has just announced its new CarPlay integration with the iPhone. The integration was first announced last year during the iOS 7 unveiling back in June 2013. [adsenseyu1] Only Lightning connector-enabled iPhones (iPhone 5s, 5c, 5) are… Read More: Apple announces CarPlay, an iOS experience on four wheels »

Facebook Takes Away Another Privacy Feature While Zuckerberg Spends $30 Million To Get More Privacy

This week Facebook announced that they are finishing the removal of the “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” setting from all accounts. For most people this setting was removed last year, but if you had that setting turned on when Facebook tried to remove it (originally) they let you keep it. According to… Read More: Facebook Takes Away Another Privacy Feature While Zuckerberg Spends $30… »

After S4, Samsung caught cheating on benchmark tests with Note 3

Samsung has been caught cheating on benchmark tests once again and this time with the Galaxy Note 3. Previously it was the Samsung Galaxy S4 that was caught in the middle of this controversy. [adsenseyu1] ArsTechnica has done a detailed post on how Samsung Galaxy Note 3′s US version with the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon quad-core processor… Read More: After S4, Samsung caught cheating on benchmark tests with Note… »

Discovery of Huge Underground Water Aquifer at Lotikipi Basin in Kenya

Scientists Have Found a Huge Underground Water Reserve in Kenya This is incredible. Scientists have found an underground water reserve in Kenya so large that it could meet the entire country’s water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer—an underground layer of water-bearing material—that contains 200… Read More: Discovery of Huge Underground Water Aquifer at Lotikipi Basin in… »

Microsoft humbled as it changes Xbox One policies: no Internet connection required and less-strict DRM

[adsenseyu1]  Microsoft earlier this week announced two policy changes to its upcoming Xbox One game console. The first is that the console will no longer require a constant Internet connection in order to play offline games. The second is that the console will now allow used games, something that wouldn’t have been possible with the earlier policy.… Read More: Microsoft humbled as it changes Xbox One policies: no Internet… »