Celebrity scandals fueled by leaked text messages or emailed images inspired a new application to give users of Apple gadgets uncrackable communications that can be made to self-destruct.
Category: Technology news
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Firefox OS Powered Smartphones Launching Early Next Year
Mobile phones using Firefox OS will be available to buy early next year, Mozilla have today announced.
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Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’
Even though I followed Google’s I/O Conference from across the country, the event made it obvious that a company created with a strict focus on search has become an omnivorous factory of tech products both hard and soft. Google now regards its developers conference as a launch pad for a shotgun spread of announcements, almost like a CES springing from a single company. (Whatever happened to “more wood behind fewer arrows”?
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Google challenges Apple and Amazon with hardware blitz
Google has opened up new fronts in its contest with Apple and Amazon, launching a tablet to challenge the iPad and a social streaming device to stake a foothold in the living room.
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Raspberry Pi Computer To Cross The Atlantic Ocean In Autonomous Boat
There’s a lot you can do with a Raspberry Pi. It’s a credit card-sized computer that costs next to nothing, and it’s about to become the brain of a tiny boat that its developer hopes will cross the Atlantic Ocean unaided.
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How To Fix Movies That Are Really Quiet, Then REALLY LOUD
Have you ever watched a movie where the dialogue was almost inaudible, but then all of a sudden an action scene comes in and shakes your house with noise? Here’s how to fix that problem in VLC.
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‘Son of Concorde’: London to Sydney in four hours gets closer
They’re playing with our minds again … and they’re on a sure-fire winner. Aeronautical designers last week again unleashed their trusty headline-grabber about the imminence of a “Son of Concorde”.
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Engineers build smallest, fastest digital gigapixel camera
Engineers in the United States have built a prototype gigapixel camera the size of a bedside cabinet that can capture an image in a single snapshot with 1000 times more detail than today’s devices.
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Google’s, Apple’s eyes in the sky draw scrutiny
Google and Apple are attracting renewed scrutiny of their practices due to privacy concerns – this time for flying “military-grade spy planes” over major US cities as they race to shore up their rival 3D mapping services.
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Dear Apple, Where Did You Put Swanston St?
One of the major new features in iOS 6 is the inclusion of Apple’s own mapping technology. Building a map isn’t easy, and the first screenshots from the beta version suggest that even for well-covered locations such as the Melbourne CBD, Apple has a lot of work to do.