Day: February 26, 2014

Health HealthCare

This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood

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As reported on Wired. BY CAITLIN ROPER  Mathew Scott; Hair and makeup by Raina Antle Phlebotomy. Even the word sounds archaic—and that’s nothing compared to the slow, expensive, and inefficient reality of drawing blood and having it tested. As a college sophomore, Elizabeth Holmes envisioned a way to reinvent old-fashioned phlebotomy and, in the process, usher in an era of comprehensive superfast diagnosis and preventive medicine. That was a decade ago. Holmes, now 30, dropped out of…

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Apple OS

Apple issues fix for major security flaw on OS X

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As reported on TechCrunch. By Jacob Kastrenakes Apple has released an update to OS X that patches the large security vulnerabilityidentified last week. The flaw stemmed from an erroneous line of code and meant that certain apps on Macs, iPhones, and iPads were susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, potentially allowing a hacker to pose as a trusted website or service. Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matthew Green called the flaw “seriously exploitable” after it was identified last week by Apple…

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Business

TC Makers: Inside The American Giant Factory Where They Make The Greatest Hoodie Ever

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As reported on TechCrunch. by John Biggs American Giant | TechCrunch Makers When someone tells you they make the greatest hoodie ever, what do you do? You visit their factory outside of San Francisco and see just what all the fuss is about. Welcome to another edition of TechCrunch Makers where we meet Bayard Winthrop founder of American Giant, an SF-based clothing brand that manufacturers all of its clothing in the US. Their factory south of the city was surprisingly…

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Business Mobile

Goophone took just two days to rip off the Galaxy S5

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER Goophone’s a bit like a covers band that just happens to make knock-off smartphones. Not content with just plundering better artists’ catalogs, the company has apparently managed to copy the Galaxy S5 in under two days. The Goophone S5,yep, has a 5-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 display, paired with a 2GHz octa-core MediaTek chip and 2GB RAM. Keep looking, and you’ll find 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, dual-SIM slots, 32GB storage and a 2,800mAh battery, in addition…

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Photography SmartPhone

Dual-lens smartphone cameras are coming, and this is why we want one

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As reported on Engadget. BY SHARIF SAKR One camera. Two separate lenses. That’s the conundrum raised by leaked images of HTC’s forthcoming M8 smartphone, which is rumored to bring some interesting new imaging features that go far beyond mere 3D. But what could those features be? For an answer, we turned to a startup called Corephotonics, which is currently pitching precisely such a dual-lens concept to smartphone makers. The company’s representatives told us that they’re not behind the specific module in the M8 —…

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