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| Android's Jelly Bean Usage Eclipses Gingerbread for the First Time | | Jelly Bean, the latest version of Android, has surpassed Gingerbread as the dominant operating system for the first time. According to the Android Developers' Dashboards section, 37.9% of users are running Android version 4.1 and 4.2 on their smartphones, while Gingerbread (2.3) slips into second place with 34.1%. Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) takes third place with 23.3%.
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| Architecture Innovation Would Turn Air Pollution Into Biofuel | | What if air pollution could be converted into something useful, like biofuel? That’s the idea behind a new concept by Royal College of Art student Chang-Yeob Lee. Lee wants to transform London’s BT Tower — one of the city’s tallest buildings — into a structure capable of capturing air pollution in the area and then transforming it into usable biofuel.
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| The Hut Where the Internet Began | | Monday, July 08, 2013 8:14 PM | The Atlantic |
| When Douglas Engelbart read a Vannevar Bush essay on a Philippine island in the aftermath of World War II, he found the conceptual space to imagine what would become our Internet.
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| Corning Developing Glass Resitant to Germs, Sun Glare | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:57 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| The maker of Gorilla Glass — the really tough material used on a lot of phone and tablet screens — is developing glass technology that is anti-reflective and anti-microbial. In June, Corning senior vice-president and operations chief of staff Jeffrey Evenson spoke at the MIT Technology Review Mobile Summit 2013, where he revealed the innovations that they're working on.
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| Giant Exoskeleton Mimics Your Every Move | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:34 PM | Discovery News |
| While it may not be as robust as the Amplified Mobility Platform Suits that tear through Pandora in the movie Avatar, a new robotic exoskeleton is strong enough to handle a light jog and includes hands that are nimble enough to pick up an egg without cracking it. Developed by Sagawa Electronics, the Powered Jacket MK3 boasts an aluminum and carbon fiber frame that weighs only 55 pounds, despite being almost seven-and-a-half feet tall.
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| When You Search Google, Only 13% of the Screen Has Real Results | | Monday, July 08, 2013 7:04 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Search is supposed to be the heart of Google, right? But an entrepreneur has pointed out that the search engine's site design doesn't cater much to showing organic search results these days. Aaron Harris, the cofounder of Tutorspree, explained in a blog post that he looked at "the amount of real estate given to true organic results," by searching "auto mechanic" on Google, from his office in New York City.
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| Facebook Adds Folder Support to Facebook Home | | Monday, July 08, 2013 5:50 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook updated Facebook Home on Monday by adding folders, a simple way to store and organize apps, to its existing launcher. One of the biggest complaints from those who downloaded Facebook Home at launch involved the lack of folders for organizing apps. After receiving quite a few 1-star ratings in Google Play, the social network took a closer look and attempted to correct some of the issues.
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| iOS 7 Beta 3 Arrives for Developers | | Monday, July 08, 2013 3:38 PM | Christina Warren |
| Just two weeks after iOS 7 beta 2 arrived with iPad support, Apple has released iOS 7 beta 3 to registered developers. Apple unveiled iOS 7 at WWDC 2013 on June 10 and offered its first beta to developers the same day. For now, the release cycle appears to be every two weeks for a new beta — which is faster and more consistent than iOS betas in the past.
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| Twitter Rolls Out App Updates With DM Syncing | | Monday, July 08, 2013 2:34 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Twitter announced on Monday a whole slew of new updates to its mobile apps, including for the first time syncing of direct messages across all devices.
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| OneGigabit Brings Google Fiber Speeds to Canada | | Monday, July 08, 2013 1:07 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| OneGigabit aims to get in on the ultra-high speed Internet game, promising web access up to 60 times faster than typical Internet speeds in Canada.
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| Once a Joke, Battery-Powered Airplanes Near Reality | | Monday, July 08, 2013 12:35 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Last month Siemens and EADS demonstrated a new gas-electric vehicle capable of carrying two people and their luggage 900 kilometers — roughly the distance from New York to Detroit — between refuels and recharges. The prototype was not a car, but a small two-seater airplane. The hybrid plane is similar to the Chevrolet Volt in that it relies on an electric motor and uses a gas engine as backup.
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| PC Makers Will Get Their Hands on Windows 8.1 in August | | Monday, July 08, 2013 12:07 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Microsoft will send the finished version of Windows 8.1 to PC manufacturers before fall, the company announced Monday. Tami Reller, Microsoft's chief marketing officer for Windows, announced at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference that Windows 8.1 RTM (release to manufacturing) is at the end of August.
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| Nikon Wants to 'Change the Concept of Cameras' | | Monday, July 08, 2013 11:08 AM | Pete Pachal |
| There's no question the entire field of consumer photography has been upended by cellphone cameras. Nikon is feeling that pressure more than ever before, and it's planning to introduce new kinds of products in the coming years in response to shifting consumer habits.
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