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Pentagon Wants Smartphone Biometric Scanning Tool | Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:58 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| The Pentagon wants soldiers to be able to scan people's faces, eyes and thumbs with their smartphones. That's why the Department of Defense has inked a $3 million deal with California-based tech company AOptix, to develop its "Smart Mobile Identity System," as first reported by Wired's Military blog Danger Room.
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Did Technology Kill Traditional Dating? | Thursday, February 14, 2013 6:08 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Today's the day, in case you didn't notice. But we're sure your Instagram is flooded with perfectly-filtered flower and teddy bear photos, your Twitter feed's filled with sickeningly sweet hashtags, and love statuses abound on Facebook. Yet this Valentine's Day may not be as traditionally romantic, one study says, as social networks and online dating take the place of time-honored courtship.
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iPhone 5 Flaw Lets Anyone See Your Contacts, Photos | Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:55 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| The passcode lock on the iPhone 5 isn't perfect, it seems. A video posted on YouTube Jan. 31 by user "videosdebarraquito" shows how to bypass the lock on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1. The method was confirmed by the tech blog The Verge, which posted its own video showing the trick.
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Adobe Updates Creative Cloud With Responsive Design Tools | Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:19 PM | Christina Warren |
| Adobe announced Thursday a number of product updates and tool previews for its Creative Cloud service. The big updates include the first public preview for Edge Reflow — a responsive design tool — new updates to the Edge Animate tool, an update to the Edge Code Preview tool and updates to Dreamweaver.
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Transfer Files From Your Phone to Computer With a 'Bump' | Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:07 PM | Emily Price |
| Popular mobile app Bump announced an update Thursday that makes it easy to transfer files, presentations, or even your contact list from your mobile phone to your computer. With the update, you can “Bump” photos, videos, files and contacts from your phone to your computer by pointing your browser to a special URL and tapping the spacebar on the computer.
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Travel Logs Shed Light on Tesla vs. The New York Times | Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:09 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has been in full damage-control mode after a scathing review of the company's Model S sedan from none other than The New York Times. Musk has now posted what he says are the vehicle logs from the reporter's test drive, and they don't match up with what the Times reported. In a blog post, Musk details exactly which facts from the review Tesla is disputing.
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Under the Hood of the World's Smallest, Cheapest Computer | Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:21 AM | Zoe Fox |
| Computers are big, expensive gadgets, but they don't need to be. In 2006, several members of the Cambridge faculty and other UK computer scientists joined together to form the charitable Raspberry Pi Foundation with one simple goal: get more computers into the hands of more children. They knew they'd need to create low-cost, programmable devices and aimed to meet a $25 price point per unit, which is roughly the cost of one textbook.
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Report: HP's Next Smartphones and Tablets Will Be Android-Based | Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:48 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| HP plans to switch to Android for its upcoming smartphones and tablets, ReadWrite Mobile reports citing sources familiar with the matter. According to the report, HP will launch a high-end tablet powered by Nvidia's Tegra 4 chip "soon," which might make the device one of the first Tegra 4-powered tablets on the market.
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