Apple Releases Developer Preview of OS X Mavericks With More Than 200 New Features
OS X Mavericks begins a new chapter in the iBooks story. Now the books you’ve already downloaded on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch will automatically appear in iBooks on your Mac. And there are over 1.8 million more in the iBooks Store, ready for you to download with just a few clicks.1 Reading books is every bit as intuitive as it is on an iOS device — turn pages with a swipe, zoom in on images with a pinch, or scroll from cover to...
Engadget’s back to school guide 2013: docks
Welcome to Engadget’s back to school guide! Today we’re talking docks. Head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back; in early September, we’ll be giving away a ton of gear, including some of the picks in our guides. Plug and play… and then party in your dorm. That’s how the kids do it nowadays, with their...
Apple Brings All-Day Battery Life to MacBook Air
Whatever the task, fourth-generation Intel Core processors with Intel HD Graphics 5000 are up to it. From editing photos to perfecting a presentation to just browsing the web, everything moves ultrafast. These new processors also help give MacBook Air its extended battery life, thanks to a new architecture that’s designed to use less power. Learn more More here: Apple Brings All-Day Battery Life to MacBook Aircar insurance...
Facebook report on government data requests a reminder there is no privacy
The CSO story, “Facebook report on government data requests a reminder there is no privacy,” which posted to the newswire Wednesday, had an incorrect byline. The correct byline is Antone Gonsalves. The story has been corrected on the wire See the article here: Facebook report on government data requests a reminder there is no privacywebpage
Nine Inch Nails puts Kinect, various other gadgets to use on festival tour
It’s no secret that Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor likes to do things a bit differently. He and long-time art director Rob Sheridan have assembled a crew to make the group’s festival dates this year as visually stunning as the audio promises to be. Along with a slew of other high-tech gadgetry, there’s a Kinect that handles motion tracking with captured movements projected onto a handful of mobile video...
