Day: September 13, 2013

Is a stereo receiver right for you?

Onkyo’s new TX-8020 receiver sells for less than $200, comes loaded with useful features, and it sounds great…….


Where’d that building go? Korea to get ‘invisible’ skyscraper

Now you see it, now you don’t. A 1,476-foot tower planned for construction just outside of Seoul, South Korea, appears to disappear through optical technology…….


iPhone 5C preorder calm before the 5S storm

Apple’s iPhone 5C is now on sale online, but prepare for an iPhone 5S gold rush in stores when the phone goes on sale September 20. Plus, models will flaunt gold iPhones on the runway, and the HTC One could also be going gold…….


How Google, Tesla, and Uber Could Team Up For the Driverless Taxis of the Future

cartechboy writes “Follow the thinking for a second. Google drops $258 million into the car-taxi app Uber. Google says it will make self-driving cars available within four years, based on its ground-breaking research into self-driving cars. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spoken with Google about driverless technology for future Tesla vehicles. So, are we watching…


Microsoft pulls ‘fly on the wall’ anti-iPhone ad

Microsoft’s online video ad that mocked Apple’s latest crop of iPhones has been yanked following what appears to be poor reception…….


Bid to cross Atlantic in flying rowboat fizzles, balloonist rescued

Ambitious stunt doesn’t quite fly, as Canadian news chopper picks up North Carolina man who landed in Newfoundland…….


The best ad for an iOS app you may ever see

Chipotle brings all the beauty and joy of Moonbot Studios to sell an iPhone app — and, at the same time, decry factory farming…….


Twitter bug makes users fear invasion of push notification ads

Flying too far from its perch, a promotional tweet makes it way uninvited to smartphone screens, likely because of a bug…….


Apple Security Advisory 2013-09-12-2

Apple Security Advisory 2013-09-12-2 – Safari 5.1.10 is now available. Multiple memory corruption issues existed in JavaScriptCore’s JSArray::sort() method. These issues were addressed through additional bounds checking…….


Flash Memory Won’t Get Cheaper Any Time Soon

jfruh writes “Some melancholy news from the Hot Chips symposium last week: NAND memory, which powers the solid-state drives that have revolutionized storage, has broken the $1 per gigabyte barrier and isn’t getting any cheaper. ‘They will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive,’ says analyst Jim Handy. There are newer technologies…