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Amazon Cloud Drive Photos for iOS takes on Google, Dropbox and Apple

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Amazon has launched its Cloud Drive Photos app on iOS today, joining the Android app as a solution for avid mobile photo snappers to automatically have their creations uploaded in the cloud and organized for sharing and viewing. The app looks to take on Apple's Photo Steam iCloud feature, as well as Google's and Dropbox's solutions. Read The Full Story

Police iPhone decryption sees high demand, Apple makes them wait

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

It turns out that the security features on the iPhone are so robust, that police are unable to decrypt them in order to gain access to possibly crucial information on suspects' devices. This has led to federal agencies getting a hold of Apple in order to decrypt iPhones for them, but it turns out that so many devices are being requested for decryption, that Apple had to make a waiting list. Read The Full Story

PayPal wants to get rid of passwords in favor of biometric security

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

While passwords are the way of the land on the internet, PayPal's chief information security officer Michael Barrett says that passwords and PINs are obsolete and we need a new standard for security on computers and the internet. Barrett thinks that the next step is fingerprint scanners, which he believes will debut on smartphones at some point this year. Read The Full Story

ESPN streaming content subsidization: mobile carriers mull partial payment

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

As most carriers have now moved toward using data caps and effectively got rid of unlimited data plans, it seems there are still some big companies out there that feel bad for the users, ESPN being one of them. The sports media network has reportedly been in talks with at least one major carrier about paying them as a subsidy so that streamed ESPN video wouldn't count against users' data caps. Read The Full Story

NASA planning emergency spacewalk to fix ISS ammonia leak

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

After an ammonia leak was discovered on the International Space Station last night, NASA and the ISS crew are working together to come up with a fix. It's been decided that an emergency spacewalk will be conducted to inspect the leak and attempt to fix it before matters get worse. The leak is on the outside, so it isn't immediately life-threatening, but the supply will run out if the leak continues. Read The Full Story

Google Babel to rebrand as Google Hangouts, could launch at Google I/O

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

We've heard rumblings of Google's new unified chat service in the past, called Babel, but it seems the company is expected to announce the new service at Google I/O next week. However, before they do that, it's been reported that Babel is being rebranded as Google Hangouts, and will merge with the company's current Google+ Hangouts video chat feature. Read The Full Story

iPad Smart Cover magnets could affect implanted defibrillators

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

It's been discovered that the magnets in an iPad Smart Cover are strong to deactivate implanted heart defibrillators, according to a 14-year-old student who discovered the findings during her science fair project. Since then, the student has received a lot of attention from medical professionals and will even speak in front of 8,000 doctors in Denver for the Heart Rhythm Society. Read The Full Story

Windows 8 iTunes app not coming “any time soon”

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

While iTunes is available for Windows 8, it only works in desktop mode, meaning that there's no "metro" style app for Apple's popular music player and media store. Of course, Microsoft really wants Apple to create said app, but according to Windows CFO Tami Reller, that's not going to happen "any time soon." Read The Full Story

Half-Life 2 Oculus Rift support official

Craig Lloyd, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

In the latest update to Valve's classic sci-fi first-person shooter Half-Life 2, the developer added official support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, making it the second game from Valve to support the new VR device, with Team Fortress 2 being the first game that received the green light. Read The Full Story

ASUS Transformer tablet teased for Computex 2013

Craig Lloyd, May 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

ASUS posted up a video on YouTube that gives us a tease at what to expect from the company at Computex 2013 this year. The video mostly highlights what the company is all about, and they show off some of their products in the video as well, with a few interesting glances at mysterious products that we haven't seen before. Read The Full Story

Study suggests water on the Moon came from Earth

Craig Lloyd, May 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

Scientists and researchers have discovered that droplets of water found in lunar rocks brought back from the Moon are identical on a chemical level from that of samples of ancient Earth. The rocks used in the study came from samples brought back by Apollo 15 in 1971 and Apollo 17 in 1972, the latter being NASA's last mission to the moon. Read The Full Story