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| Apple Launches New iPod Touch Without a Rear Camera for $229 | | Apple has launched a new iPod touch variant which sports the same 4-inch Retina display like the 5th generation iPod touch, but doesn't have a rear camera. Before this latest addition, Apple's iPod touch roster included a 5th generation model with 32GB or 64GB of storage memory, as well as a 4th generation model with 16GB or 32GB memory. This new device replaces the 4th generation models.
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| Elon Musk: We're Tripling the Tesla Supercharger Coverage Area This Month | | Speaking at Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a "dramatic acceleration" of the Tesla Supercharger network. The expansion should triple the Superchargers coverage area this month and enable drivers to drive from Los Angeles to New York by the end of 2013, said Musk.
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| Wikipedia's 'Nearby' Feature Pulls Up Articles Related to Your Location | | Wikipedia has launched a new feature called "Nearby" that recommends articles based on a user's location. The Nearby page page aims to help readers learn more about their current surroundings. For example, visitors to Vatican City will see articles on the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's fresco depicting The Last Judgment.
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| Augmented Reality 3D-Tracking App Makes You an Expert Mechanic | | A new 3D-tracking app aims to help hopeless handymen and women become expert mechanics. Tech firm Inglobe Technologies released a demo that shows off its augmented-reality 3D tracker. The app helps car owners navigate the ins and outs of their engines by displaying icons on engine parts. What's more, a virtual hand demonstrates how users can perform maintenance tasks such as adding oil.
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| Accessory Turns iPhone Into High-Tech Lab | | A new biosensing tool puts the power of a high tech laboratory in the pockets of researchers in the field. This iPhone-enabled device could be used in pop-up clinics, waste management sites, refugee camps and anywhere else the mobile testing of biological materials such as blood is necessary. Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the tool consists of an iPhone cradle and an accompanying app.
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| Motorola CEO: Flagship Moto X Smartphone Will Launch This Year | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:21 PM | Emily Price |
| Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed Wednesday that the company is working on a new flagship smartphone — the long-rumored Moto X. During an interview at All Things Digital's D11 conference, Woodside confirmed the smartphone’s existence, and shared some details about it. For instance, the phone will be aware of its surroundings.
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| Mercedes Adds QR Codes to Cars to Aid Crash Rescues | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:47 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| We've seen QR codes being incorporated into all kinds of things, from billboards to toilet paper to beer bottles. Now, German automaker Mercedes-Benz will incorporate those scannable, black-and-white square codes in its cars — all to help save lives.
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| Google Updates Google Calendar for Android With Color Labels | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:47 PM | Emily Price |
| Google updated its calendar app for Android Wednesday, bringing with it one of the most requested features for the app: the ability to customize event and calendar colors. Available for Android 4.1 devices and above, your Google Calendar can now be given the color of your choice (Google offers 24 options) directly from the Android app.
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| Gmail Gets a Brand New Inbox | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 1:01 PM | Christina Warren |
| As rumored, the Gmail inbox is getting a new look on the desktop, iOS and Android. The new inbox matches leaked screenshots that appeared at the end of last week and it shows off a look that is more about helping users organize their inbox into categories with horizontal tabs, versus a vertical list of labels. Clicking on one of the tabs will show all the messages from that view.
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| Traveling Motorcycle Tests Security of Wi-Fi Networks | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:12 AM | PSFK |
| IT security consultant Denis Andzakovic, 22, created a motorcycle that also doubles as a Wi-Fi security testing machine. Andzakovic, an avid biker since age 15, equipped his motorcycle with a Raspberry Pi, a heads-up display (HUD) integrated in a bike helmet, GPS, a laptop, routers and wireless sniffing and attack tools. The bike can detect Wi-Fi access points upon passes them and plot these access points on Google Maps.
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| Toshiba Offers a Business Laptop With Windows 8...or 7 | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:00 AM | Pete Pachal |
| While IT managers aren't exactly jumping at Windows 8, manufacturers are rising to the occasion to create new kinds of PCs that cater to the needs of enterprise. The Portégé Z10t is Toshiba's first take on a Windows 8 hybrid PC for business users. Except it doesn't have to be a Windows 8 machine. Although the Z10t ships with Windows 8 Pro by default, customers can configure it to run 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7.
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| This Robot Can Read Your Mind | | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:00 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Do you ever wish a cold drink would magically appear in your hand on a hot summer day? It might just happen in the near future, as researchers at Cornell University have developed a robot which can predict what you want to do next. The mind-reading robot — a PR2 personal robot designed by Willow Garage, equipped with a Microsoft Kinect 3D camera — does that by analyzing your body movements.
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