If you know someone’s date of birth, you can crack their Myspace account.
Source: Wired
Touch. When it comes to virtual reality, it’s a problem no one has quite cracked. At TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics this afternoon, a researcher out of MIT demonstrated a portable “shape-display” — a wheeled robot that follows your hand, simulating the surface or object your VR-self is touching. He calls it the “ReVeal” system. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Tesla has added two new independent directors to its board, including 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch and Johnson Publishing Company CEO and Chairman Linda Johnson Rice. The two new board members were added just a few months after Tesla confirmed it was seeking additional independent directors without ties to CEO and founder Elon Musk. Until now, Tesla’s board included five (of six… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Let’s see how these three new midsize sedans stack up, spreadsheet-style.
Source: CNET
Samsung’s mobile chief spilled the beans, except for the exact launch date.
Source: CNET
For the second quarter in a row, Netflix has handily beaten industry watchers — and its own expectations — in adding a mountain of additional new subscribers.
Netflix today said it added 5.2 million additional new subscribers this quarter, a number well above the 3.2 million new subscribers additions that it set itself — and the stock promptly jumped nearly 9%. More than 4… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
HP’s 2017 Spectre x2 has a lovely, well executed design but battery life and performance lag behind the competition.
Source: CNET
Hampton Creek is in the news again — and not for the reasons it would like to be. Hampton Creek’s entire board of directors have left, except for CEO Josh Tetrick.
Five board members left just in the last month after some serious disagreement with how Tetrick was running things, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the departures. They include Bon Appétit Management Co. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
This September marks the 15th anniversary of the first Roomba — but in spite of the device’s massive popularity, no companies have managed to successfully follow in its footsteps with another mainstream home robot. The Tertill, however, could be the product to change that, drawing on a number of the Roomba’s lessons and applying them to an outdoor setting for regular… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The company has filed for a trademark for a service that touts, “We do the prep. You be the chef.”
Source: CNET