Source: http://gizmodo.com/now-you-can-get-totally-free-voice-texts-and-data-on-1569143815
FreedomPop's crazy free voice, text, and data plan is awesome
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/28/samsung-uhd-content/
If Amazon, Netflix and DirecTV's promised 4K content aren't enough to entice you to pick up an ultra high definition TV, maybe this will help: Samsung is now giving buyers of its new curved TVs eight UHD films for free. The films are actually part of the company's UHD video pack, a $300 1TB hard drive pre-loaded with three documentaries, Night at the Museum, The Counselor, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and World War Z. Sony has a similar promotion tied to its UHD sets, an effort to assuage buyer fears that there won't be anything to watch on their expensive 4k display. Sammy's freebie applies to all new purchases of its 55, 65 and 78-inch curved UHD sets from now until the end of June. Already have one? Check out the source link below to nab your new hard drive.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Samsung
Source: Samsung
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AOL just released more information about the email spoofing incident from earlier this month. In a blog post, AOL (which owns TechCrunch) wrote that its investigation is still ongoing, but it acknowledged that a "significant" number of users were affected, with the spoofers gaining access to "AOL...
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/28/aol-spoofed-email-update/
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The Geeksphone Revolution, a mobile handset that runs not one, but two mobile operating systems, is getting some updates, the company announced on Monday. Geeksphone is putting the finishing touches on the Revolution software, allowing customers to run either Android 4.4 (KitKat) or the Android-b...
http://www.cnet.com/news/dual-boot-geeksphone-revolution-gets-price-drop-software-updates/
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Android on laptops is normally reserved for hybrid devices or units no bigger than 10 inches. If this leaked video is correct, however, then HP is planning to launch an Android laptop with a 14-inch display. The clip, found by Notebook Italia, shows a Slatebook 14 with a 1080p display, controlled by a quad-core NVIDIA chip and running a recent build of Google's mobile OS. The video also shows that the Android soft keys will remain on the bottom of the screen, as well as adding them to the keyboard where you'd normally find the Esc and Windows keys. There's not much more than that to go on right now, but we've pinged HP to find out if this is really coming, or just the hopeful fantasy of someone who really hates Chromebooks.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-level-headphones-2014-4
Samsung is getting into the premium audio business.
The company announced Sunday night a new line of headphones along with a wireless Bluetooth speaker called Level. Level products will launch globally in the coming weeks, but Samsung hasn't announced finalized dates and pricing for the U.S. yet. However, based on the specs, you can bet these new products won't be cheap.
There are four new products in the Level family. Let's break it down.
The Level Over is the top-tier model. The noise-canceling headphones pair with your smartphone wirelessly using Bluetooth and include touch controls on the side of the device. You can swipe up and down on the right speaker pad to adjust the volume, swipe forward or backward to change tracks, and tap the pad to pause/play.
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-mystery-bike-locks-hidden-keyhole-makes-it-un-pick-1568134661
Picking a lock is surprisingly easy with practice
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Following a report from Mac Otakara yesterday claiming the iPhone 6 will feature a curved glass display and an all-aluminum rear shell, French website Nowhereelse.fr [Google Translate] and designer Martin Hajek have partnered up to showcase renders visualizing such a device based off of the recen...
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/25/iphone6-renders-curved-display-rounded-corners/
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Leo's gold has been stolen, and it's your job to get it back. This sounds like the line from many a cliche video game, as coin-collecting has been around as long as controllers themselves. Yet Leo's Fortune for iOS puts a darker twist on what that gold does to those who possess it. Leo's Fortune ...
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Google has sped up secure Web browsing on Android by taking advantage of something most companies don't have: control over the browser and the Web sites it's visiting. Google added support for faster new encryption algorithms called ChaCha20 and Poly1305 to its Chrome browser, said Elie Bursztein...
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/25/ee-three-voicemail-hacking/
With the phone-hacking scandal still playing out in the courts, it should be safe to assume that UK mobile operators have put measures in place protect customers' own voicemail inboxes. Unfortunately, that's only half true. We know thanks to an investigation by The Register, which showed that two of the big four carriers had neglected to close a loophole that allows nefarious third-parties to spoof a customer's phone number and immediately gain access to their voicemails. Those two companies? EE and Three.
Armed with a target's phone number and VoIP calling system, researchers were able to trick both carriers' voicemail systems into believing a call originated from one of their SIMs. Attempts to hack into Vodafone and O2, however, were unsuccessful. Vodafone blocked attempts with PIN requests, while O2's systems always timed out. When pressed about the issue, Three simply pointed to the voicemail security pages on its website and warned users to set a PIN (which isn't enforced by default). EE immediately set about fixing the flaw and sent out an announcement just a few hours later telling customers it had "patched the issues raised in the article." The company said it also plans to run "a full review of all [its] voicemail platforms," to head off any future issues.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile
Source: The Register, EE Support Forum
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/25/iberia-boarding-pass-on-samsung-gear-2-smartwatches-wearables/
You wouldn't instantly associate Iberia with cutting-edge technology, but the Spanish airline is a paragon of modernity. The Madrid-based business already lets you print your own luggage tags, and now it's teamed up with Samsung to bring boarding passes to your smartwatch. A forthcoming update to the Iberia Android app will enable you to cross the skybridge with just a Gear 2 -- assuming, of course, that you've already got a Galaxy S5 (or another compatible device) stashed in your pocket.
Filed under: Wearables, Samsung
Via: WSJ
Source: Iberia (Translated)
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-folding-origami-grill-has-a-metal-mesh-hammock-for-1567012502
When you're cooking dinner in the woods, the last thing you want is to be responsible for burning down acres of trees down because you were careless with your campfire. A portable grill helps keep everything safely contained, and the folding Grillo even keeps your burning briquettes or kindling off the forest floor.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/24/cochlear-ear-implant-gene-therapy/
Cochlear implants already help those with auditory damage to hear better, but what if they could also grow new nerves while they're there? Scientists at the UNSW have discovered a way to do just that, at least in hamsters. After they introduced a gene therapy solution, a modified cochlear implant used electrical pulses to deliver the treatment directly to auditory nerve cells. That successfully re-generated so-called neurotrophins in the animals, which in turn aided nerve development and significantly improved the implant's effect. Such therapy could one day help the hearing-impaired to pick up sounds better, especially the subtle tones in music. There's a long ways to go prior to human trials, however, since it was only effective in the hamsters for a short time. But it could one day be included as part of cochlear implant therapy and even help other nerve-related conditions, like Parkinson's disease or depression.
[Image credit: UNSW Translational Neuroscience Facility]
Via: The Verge
Source: UNSW
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/24/cheap-malaria-test-kits/
Despite how far we've come with technology, malaria is still a serious threat for huge chunks of the developing world. A prototype tool from UK-outfit QuantuMDx, however, could help stave off mosquito-related deaths by giving health-workers the power to diagnose the disease in 10 - 15 minutes. As the team tells it, typical DNA sequencing can take days, weeks or even months, but its "lab on a chip" can rapidly diagnose a disease and accurately predict which drug and what dosage to administer -- all based on the parasite's genetic code. That last bit is key because malaria has a nasty habit of being resistant to medications.
The device hitting prototype phase is one of the first steps along the way to mass-deployment, and its initial round of clinical trials is scheduled for later this year. QuantuMDx stresses that the device is a low-cost way for workers in developing countries to help battle the disease; the team's aiming for, "around the price of a smartphone," with test cartridges costing $5-10.
{Image credit: Dmitrijs Bindemanis/Shutterstock]
Source: QuantuMDx
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