Friday, May 6, 2016

New tech turns your skin into a touchscreen for your smartwatch and other top stories.

  • New tech turns your skin into a touchscreen for your smartwatch

    New tech turns your skin into a touchscreen for your smartwatch
    One of the biggest challenges with smartwatches is trying to navigate through apps on a relatively tiny screen. While smartphones and tablets have gotten bigger over the years, the gadgets we wear on our wrists need to stay small to avoid looking terribly unfashionable. Today a team at the Future Interfaces Group, a research lab within Carnegie Mellon University, released a look at a novel solution to this problem: making the skin on your arm and hand act like a touchscreen for your smartwatch...
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  • Bentley's New Apple Watch App Brings in-Car Controls to Your Wrist

    Bentley's New Apple Watch App Brings in-Car Controls to Your Wrist
    According to a press release from Bentley (via MacRumors), the application uses “bespoke digital architecture” in order to sync up the watchOS application with the car's Touch Screen Remote (TSR) system. In this way, Bentley's Apple Watch application allows users to interact with the car's on-board software, adjusting the temperature in the vehicle, turning the music up (or down), and even activating the massage functions of the Bentley's seats. Jony Ive, Apple's senior vice president of Design ..
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  • Data on iPhone belonging to actor Michael Jace's wife are focus of murder case

    Data on iPhone belonging to actor Michael Jace's wife are focus of murder case
    The contents of a white iPhone 5S owned by the wife of TV actor Michael Jace have become an unlikely legal battleground as he faces trial over her death.Jace's attorneys don't dispute that he killed April Jace, a college financial aid counselor. But they argued that data from her phone could provide valuable insights into what happened in the moments before the "Shield" actor gunned her down May 21, 2014, at their Los Angeles home. So the Los Angeles Police Department in March found a "forensic..
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  • The second 'XCOM 2' DLC pack arrives May 12th

    The second 'XCOM 2' DLC pack arrives May 12th
    The biggest addition are the expansion's three new Ruler aliens. These bosses will randomly hunt your team during campaigns (assuming you've cleared the new narrative sections already) and offer unique powers and tactics -- they'll even retreat if you don't blast them fast enough. Luckily, players will have access to four new "prototype" weapons including a single shot rifle, a throwable axe, a pistol that automatically hides dead bodies and a freeze grenade to better battle these badass bosse..
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  • Businesses can now buy apps in bulk from the Windows Store

    Businesses can now buy apps in bulk from the Windows Store
    App developers now have an easier way to sell their wares to businesses running Windows 10. On Thursday, Microsoft said developers can submit paid apps for inclusion in the Windows Store for Business, a version of the online store for Windows 10 that companies can use to distribute software to their employees over the web. (The store previously offered only free applications.) The move means independent app developers have an easier way to get their wares in front of large enterprise customers..
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  • Facebook face-tagging in photos targeted in lawsuit

    Facebook face-tagging in photos targeted in lawsuit
    A US judge on Thursday rejected a request by Facebook to toss out a civil suit accusing it of violating privacy with face-recognition software to help "tag" people in pictures. A lawsuit filed by three Illinois residents under the auspices of the state ...
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  • Netflix now lets you control how much data it uses when streaming from your smartphone

    Netflix now lets you control how much data it uses when streaming from your smartphone
    Netflix announced this morning a new way for consumers to control how much data its app uses when they’re accessing the service by way of a mobile device. In the updated version of the iOS or Android application, there will be a new setting called “Cellular Data Usage,” where you’ll be able to switch off the automatic, default setting then choose either a higher or lower data usage setting, depending on your personal preference. An unlimited data option is also available in this area, which is..
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  • Big 3 increase tie-ups in race to self-driving cars

    Big 3 increase tie-ups in race to self-driving cars
    Michael Wayland, Michael Martinez, and Melissa Burden 11:32 p.m. EDT May 5, 2016Lyft Inc. and General Motors Co. are developing self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EVs that could pick up passengers for testing on California roadways within a couple of years.(Photo: Bryan Mitchell / Special to The Detroit News)Detroit automakers are accelerating development of autonomous vehicles by increasingly partnering with the very Silicon Valley tech companies that are disrupting their industry.Lyft In..
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  • Tim Cook: The iPhone 7 will give us "things we can't live without" video - CNET

    Tim Cook: The iPhone 7 will give us
    [MUSIC] What's up, and welcome to The Apple Byte, for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple. Let's jump into it, and an early report from Bloomberg news says that Apple Music will be getting an interface revamp at WWDC. And the updated service will include a few new features, including support for song lyrics to be automatically integrated into Apple Music, compared to the manual syncing that users normally have to do. This is good, so I can finally fig..
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