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Space

Ten years ago, SpaceShipOne completed the first private flight into space

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio Ten years ago today, SpaceShipOne and pilot Mike Melvill blasted just past the Earth’s atmosphere into space, marking beginning of commercial spaceflight. The Paul Allen-funded project successfully became the first privately-financed human spaceflight, and after its success it seemed that commercial space travel was just around the corner. However, after just a couple more flights later in 2004, the SpaceShipOne was retired. There hasn’t been another commercial, suborbital…

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Google

Google Glass Frames By Diane Von Furstenberg Now On Sale In The U.S.

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington Google has new frames available for Glass buyers, and they’re specially designed by Diane von Furstenberg. These are the chicest Google Glass frames you can buy, for the time being, and they come in multiple sunglass tints, plus a single pair of optical frames in different colors. The designs are all Glass compatible, but you can also get Glass in a bundle with one pair of the sunglasses and one…

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Application

BrewDrop Brings Sweet Booze Right To Your Home

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As reported on TechCrunch. by John Biggs Rakuten’s Video Service Wuaki Confirms UltraViolet And European Rollouts It’s 11pm: do you know where your microbrews are? Matt and Andrew Bell know. As thecreators of BrewDrop, they want to make it easy to order booze using a simple app. The service, which just launched in Austin, Texas, allows you to send an instant order to local booze purveyors using an Uber-like interface. In fact, you can think of it…

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Government Hardware Dev Legal

Backscatter X-ray gun will help police hunt contraband

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT  Though “strip-search” backscatter X-ray machines were pulled from US airports for privacy reasons, the tech has found a new home in the MINI Z portable scanner. Made by American Science and Engineering (AS&E), it displays see-through images on a Windows tablet PC from low-intensity backscatter X-rays that don’t penetrate deeply into organic tissue. The company said it took seven years of research to shrink the X-ray tubes enough to create a handheld device that uses…

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Application Cloud Culture

Wink wants to simplify the smart home with a universal app and $80 hub

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As reported on Engadget. BY SHARIF SAKR You’ve probably never heard of Wink, but you may soon encounter its logo (“Wink app ready”) or its smart home router (the “Wink Hub”) the next time you go shopping at Home Depot. The logo will appear on a range of WiFi-connected devices from different manufacturers, including air conditioners from GE and thermostats from Honeywell, signifying that they can all be controlled via the Wink app for Android and iOS. The hub…

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Automotive Business Culture

This is Harley-Davidson’s first electric motorcycle

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Meet Project LiveWire America’s foremost bike manufacturer is leaving a century of tradition behind with the all-electric Project LiveWire, and it’s inviting the public to help test it. While the company is being coy with details on the bike, it says LiveWire offers “tire-shredding acceleration and an unmissable new sound,” and is capable of hitting 0-60 in less than four seconds. LiveWire is not for sale, and is instead…

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Application

LinkedIn Launches Its First Standalone Job Search App

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ingrid Lunden LinkedIn says that today 40% of its 300 million users access the site on mobile devices, so its bid to tap into the wave of users accessing the site via smartphones and tablets continues apace: today the company is launching LinkedIn Job Search, an iOS app that will let people search and apply for jobs on the social network. This is LinkedIn’s first standalone app dedicated to these features. The app is now live in the…

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Business IT

Puppet Labs Raises $40M More To Take Its IT Automation Business Global

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ingrid Lunden Puppet Labs, whose IT automation software is used by the likes of Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T among 18,000 others, is today announcing another $40 million in venture backing, money that it will be investing in “engineering, product and international expansion,” CEO and founder Luke Kanies tells TechCrunch. The funding, which comes from Puppet Labs’ existing top-shelf and strategic investors — specifically Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle…

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Culture Hardware Dev

Ambient glasses put smartphone notifications right in front of your eyes

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Still not sold on smartwatches, but want to know what’s going on with your phone without taking it out of your pocket? Maybe Matilde’s Fun-iki glasses, spotted at CNET Japan’s Live 2014 event, will do the trick. Connecting to smartphones through WiFi, a trio of LEDs above each lens will glow (or pulse) when there’s a notification, or simply to add a little, er, color to your complexion. The lights…

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Business Mobile

BlackBerry steadies the ship but smartphone sales continue to evaporate

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As reported on Engadget. BY MATT BRIAN  BlackBerry’s plan to cut costs and shift to services is starting to pay dividends. While the company’s latest financial earnings report shows it’s still suffering losses, they aren’t as bad as expected. It certainly wasn’t thanks to its smartphones, which were once BlackBerry’s main source of revenue, as they fell to just 2.6 million units from 3.4 million in the last quarter. This time around, the Canadian smartphone maker didn’t divulge how…

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