Technology

Do you ever wish that your car had WiFi? Well, the folks over at FreedomPop have come up with a solution that provides WiFi for up to five of your devices while you’re on the road. Even better, you can … Continue reading →

First Bing, then Google, now Spotify. The popular music streaming service is tweaking its desktop app to display song lyrics as you listen. Spotify’s new music lyrics feature is powered by Musixmatch, one of the most popular apps in Spotify’s … Continue reading →

Boeing’s new patent for launching satellites sounds unnecessarily complicated at first, but it could slash the cost of getting to low-Earth orbit.

ARM and IBM are teaming up to offer a turnkey Internet of Things solution with built-in Ethernet support and an advanced embedded Cortex-M4 processor. The goal is to have users up and programming within minutes — and tied back to … Continue reading →

A complaint filed by a privacy group to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission charged that Samsung’s Smart TVs intercept and record private communications of consumers in their homes, violating a number of rules including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. … Continue reading →

Backers of Bluetooth plan to give the technology a way to form mesh networks, dramatically extending its range and potentially its role in the Internet of Things. Bluetooth is well suited to IoT because of its low-power capability and its … Continue reading →

A number of creators pitched smart padlocks to the Kickstarter community last year and met with mixed results. The Quicklock Padlock was the most ambitious of the lot, being the only keyless padlock to support both Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC … Continue reading →

Les adblockers se diffusent comme une traînée de poudre. Un cercle pas si vertueux pour les régies et pour les internautes.

There are few things I like better than discovering simple, easy, and inexpensive ways to get things done. Asking your cable or satellite-TV service provider to set you up with a means of streaming video from your set-top box in … Continue reading →

Plex doesn’t exactly hide the fact that it’s a killer app for pirated video. Just look at the marketing materials for the media server software, and you’ll see how easy it is to stream your collection of movies and TV shows … Continue reading →