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| Everything You Need to Know About Waze | | 4:43:40 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| You may have heard that Google purchased a popular social traffic app called Waze on Tuesday for a reported $1.03 billion. For those who aren't familiar with Waze, we've detailed everything you need to know about the app, below. Like other mapping services, Waze offers voice-guided GPS navigation with turn-by-turn directions.
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| 'The Dark Sorcerer' Demo Shows the Power of PlayStation 4 | | Quantic Dream, the company behind the video game "Heavy Rain," has made available the entire PlayStation 4 tech demo shown at the E3 conference. Somewhat unusual for demos of this type, the 12-minute long "Dark Sorcerer" not only has a story with a lot of dialogue — it's actually funny. In a blog post, Quantic Dream's David Cage explains how challenging it was to create a tech demo that also works as a comedy.
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| RoboRoach Lets You Control an Insect's Mind With an App | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:26 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Remember in high school, in your bio lab, when you had to dissect that fetal pig? You learned all about physiological systems and their processes. And remember in chemistry, when your professor made a liquid nitrogen bomb to send a trashcan rocketing into the sky? You learned what happens when liquid nitrogen is boiled in a sealed container and turns into a gas.
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| The Inside Scoop on Google's Visual Design Guidelines | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:56 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| What makes Google look like Google? A group of Google designers have shared the various quirks and guidelines behind the tech giant's visual aesthetics, giving us a glimpse at how Google works to keep a coherent look across its products.
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| Did Apple Just Ally With Microsoft Against Google? | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments. In Monday's WWDC keynote, Apple executive Eddy Cue was running through the new iOS 7 version of Siri, when he happened to mention Siri's default search function would be powered by Bing, not Google. That means the first default search engine on Apple's voice assistant, baked into 600 million iPhones, will be brought to you by Microsoft.
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| See How Siri Works in iOS 7 | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:16 PM | Pete Pachal |
| With iOS 7, Apple is giving Siri a big revamp. Not only is the iPhone's voice assistant getting an optional male persona, but it's also getting some enhanced abilities, including better integration with Twitter. The gang at TechSmartt (who also did a very thorough Galaxy S4 drop test) got their hands on the developer beta of iOS 7 and took the upgraded Siri for a spin.
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| Stunna Shades With LED Lights Groove to the Music | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:10 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Listen up, party people: Get ready to ditch your old stunna shades and slap on a pair of high-tech upgrades. A Texas-based Kickstarter campaign is promoting DropShades, audio-responsive glasses that dance to the beat of music via sound-reactive technology. The rave accessories tap a tiny microphone connected to a signal processor to translate incoming sounds across six horizontal bars and LED lights.
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| Mextures Offers 70 Textures to Enhance Your iPhone Pics | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:22 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| The Mextures image enhancement app for iPhone aims to supercharge your Instagram photos. The app from photographer Merek Davis combines more than 70 hi-res textures made specifically for and by photographers, including light leaks, gritty and grainy film textures, dusty vintage film scans, tasteful grunge and gradients created from actual 35mm film scans from various cameras and a multitude of other natural elements.
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| Apple's WWDC Announcements and Other News You Need to Know | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:56 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. With Apple’s annual WWDC coming to a close, lots of new features and updates are in store for Apple consumers everywhere. Here's a rundown on what to look forward to this fall.
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| How to Set Up a Hosted WordPress Site | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:00 AM | Matt Petronzio |
| WordPress is one of the most popular blogging and publishing platforms available, with more than 66 million sites around the world. But free content management and sleek templates aren't the only features WordPress offers — you can actually download software from WordPress.org and set up your own custom website within minutes.
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| Apple Announces This Year's Design Awards Winners | | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:54 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Apple has announced the winners of this year's Apple Design Awards, which recognize the iOS apps that "raise the bar in design, technology and innovation." Eleven apps were chosen this year: WWF Together, Procreate, Badland, Yahoo! Weather, Letterpress, Ridiculous Fishing, Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders, Coda 2, Evernote, Finish. and mosaic.io.
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