At CES next week, expect booth after booth of smart devices — and a host of approaches to their security. You know, locks, cameras, appliances, doorbells, electrical outlets — anything…
Western Digital Drives Get Industrial Design Refresh
A hard drive is a hard drive, unless it gets a makeover from a French industrial designer, in which case it becomes an expensive work of art that just happens…
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Program your own self-driving racer with FormulaPi
Self-driving race cars are a few years away but why not simulate the roar of robotic Formula 1 cars with a little Raspberry Pi magic? The folks at Piborg are…
Print your own triple
In the world of horology there are few things fancier than the tourbillion and there are few things extra fancier than a triple-axis model. Originally invented by Abraham Louis Breguet,…
Wilson’s Connected Football is a $200 piece of smart pigskin
I feel the grouchy old man part of me (about 75-percent of me, at this point) starting to complaining about how in his day throwing the old football around was…
40 photos from Facebook’s “Area 404” mad science laboratory
Take a tour of Facebook’s new 22,000 square foot hardware lab where it’s building drones, satellites, lasers, VR headsets, and the machines that store the world’s biggest collection of photos….
Xiaomi packs a massive battery and deca
Xiaomi’s numbers have been slipping some of late in its native China, but the company’s still announcing handsets at a healthy clip. A month after debuting the Redmi Pro , a…
China launches the first quantum communications satellite
Congratulations are in order for China: by launching the world’s first quantum communications satellite , the country has achieved an interesting — if somewhat difficult to explain — milestone in…
PlayStation 4’s new beta software reduces clutter, improves multitasking
The beta for PlayStation 4’s 4.00 operating system arrives tomorrow for those enrolled, and Sony wants to give everyone a preview of what it brings to the table. The most…