DD Track is an app that allows you to use your mobile device as a GPS tracker. It reports location to our server with selected time intervals. Its available for both Android and iOS platforms.
Continue readingWalmart has acquired a virtual reality startup as part of its tech makeover
Walmart has acquired a small virtual reality shop, called Spatialand, to be the centerpiece of VR efforts that the company hopes will someday transform the shopping experience across the company’s different websites and stores. Spatialand makes software tools that let creators transform existing content into immersive,…
Continue readingCrypto prices mount a comeback following huge losses
What goes up, must go down… what does down, must go up…? After a big and bloody plunge this week — which saw the price of bitcoin touch a two-month low of sub-$6,000 — the crypto market has mounted a comeback with double-digit gains across the board.…
Continue readingElectric Cars Could Destroy the Electric Grid—or Fix It Forever
Electric vehicles are a fixture of many a transportation utopia, and for good reasons. In a world still reliant on private transportation, they promise everything from lower pollution to higher torque. However, at least one counterpoint mars the dream of exhaust-free street racing: Today’s grid would…
Continue readingApple HomePod
The HomePod, whether Apple likes it or not, is the company’s answer to the wildly popular Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers. Apple is very insistent that the $349 HomePod has been in development for the past six years and that it’s entirely focused on…
Continue readingSending a Tesla into space
Maybe it’s my instinctive distrust of bored billionaires treating the world as their playground, but I’m always dubious about Elon Musk’s various moonshot projects. He seems to be enjoying it all a little too much. Latest among his outlandish ideas was the concept of sending a…
Continue readingFacebook reports successful flight of full-scale Internet-delivery drone
Facebook on July 21 said the first flight of its full-scale Aquila solar-powered aircraft designed for regional internet connectivity was a success, lasting longer than expected despite an unspecified “structural failure” just before landing. The 96-minute flight, conducted in Yuma, Arizona, confirmed the validity of Aquila’s…
Continue readingSolar-powered aircraft completes historic circumnavigation of the Earth
‘The future is clean. The future is you. The future is now.’ In the dim pre-dawn light at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi this morning, history was made. As pilot Bertrand Piccard eased the wheels of Solar Impulse 2 down onto the tarmac, it…
Continue readingSamsung’s next play could be the electric car
Samsung has dropped a hint at its future direction, with its next play to get more involved in the electric car. The company announced it is to buy a stake in Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD which will initially let both companies “[strengthen] electric vehicle parts…
Continue readingHackers can steal your iOS and Mac passwords with a single image file
A new vulnerability discovered by a Cisco researcher could allow hackers to gain access to the internal storage and stored passwords on your iOS or Mac device – and all they’d have to do is send you a malicious image file. Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos…
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