Posts in June 6, 2014

Amazon has a big announcement planned for June 18.

It teased the announcement with a video of a bunch of people looking down at something and having their minds blown.

The video is supposed to be mysterious and titillating, but Amazon blew its own secret. It showed the product it's announcing. See if you can spot it:

Did you miss it? Take a look again, this time a little zoomed in...

And if you're still not seeing it, here via Stefan Constantine, is a still that shows it:We're guessing that Amazon did this intentionally to stoke interest. If this was an accident, the video editor is probably never working at Amazon again.

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Comprehending the world around us is something we humans take for granted, but it's not so easy for our technology. Sure, autonomous robots and military-grade research labs have hardware that can approximate the same visual acuity of human eyes, but... -- For more information read the original article here.

In this digital age, it can be nice to receive a letter. Not so much if you're Netflix, and the letter is a cease and desist from an angry Verizon. The contents of said letter are in relation to claims from Netflix (as published on Quartz) that error... -- For more information read the original article here.

After buying Beats and firmly planting its foot in the headphone world, Apple may drastically change the way headphones work on your iPhone.

Recently Apple posted new specifications to its Made For iPhone/iPad/iPod program — which allows manufacturers to create official accessories for Apple products — that would help third parties make headphones that plug directly into the Lightning port, 9to5Mac reports. While current Apple products couldn't support this sort of functionality right away, a simple firmware update to iOS 7 could fix that.

Headphones or earbuds that plug directly into Lightning could theoretically be smarter than any modern-day audio equipment. Your headphones would be able to control playback and even open apps on your device, 9to5Mac says.

Beats and its products are known for being popular and stylish, though not necessarily high quality or innovative. But with a Lightning plug at the end of their iconic red cords in place of the standard 1/8-inch jack, the company's headphones could deliver high-quality sound that's exclusive to Apple users. This all makes the $3 billion sale make a little more sense for Apple.

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PayPal is already considering implementing TouchID support in its iOS app, according to a source in the company. The person tells BusinessInsider that on Wednesday, a group of PayPal developers attended a WWDC session on the technology, which with iOS 8 is being opened up to third-party apps for the first time. PayPal's senior director of global initiatives, Anuj Nyar, has confirmed the event....






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The world hasn't yet recovered from the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL and now there's news of a new bug affecting the popular open-source security package. This recently announced, and already patched, exploit could allow an attacker to see and... -- For more information read the original article here.