Category: Tech news

 Jeff Bezos took to Twitter for the first time to announce a milestone from his space company Blue Origin, and the Internet soaked it in. Read More

Now owned by Apple, Beats has revamped its small Bluetooth speaker. The new portable Pill+ has a sharper design and better sound.

The post Review: Beats Pill+ appeared first on WIRED.

Enter the Vaio Z Canvas, the first Vaio to land in the United States under new management.

The post Review: Vaio Z Canvas appeared first on WIRED.

The Bamboo Spark is a sketchbook empowered by digital technology. It tracks your pen strokes on real paper, then transmits the results to your device.

The post Review: Wacom Bamboo Spark appeared first on WIRED.

The Bamboo Spark is a sketchbook empowered by digital technology. It tracks your pen strokes on real paper, then transmits the results to your device.

The post Review: Wacom Bamboo Spark appeared first on WIRED.

 Readbug’s pitch to its target indie magazine publishers is the chance to increase their digital reach without having to do any extra work or spend any extra money themselves. And its pitch to hipsters is all-you-can eat access to their favorite aspirational reads for a Spotify style monthly fee. Read More

 One of my distinct grade-school memories is filing out of fourth grade class, nervous, but excited to miss a portion of math class. We were having our quarterly disaster-survival drill; instructing students on what to do in case disaster strikes. While working through yet another attempted malicious cybersecurity attack it dawned on me, why can’t we apply this diligence and training… Read More

 Upthere launched their first apps into beta last week, and so far the beta period is off to a good start, the company tells me. No word on how many users have slipped through during the beta, but I’m told that invites are being slowly doled out. Over 3.5 million files have been uploaded to Upthere, which aims to be your personal computer in the cloud. Once your files are there,… Read More

Soundfreaq’s updated Bluetooth speaker is more portable and has excellent sound, and it remains one of our favorite options at $100.

The post Review: Soundfreaq Sound Kick 2 appeared first on WIRED.

 If you didn’t pre-order the new consumer version of Samsung Gear VR, you might have some difficulty finding it on your favorite online shopping destinations.
Amazon and Best Buy, both places that have been touted as having a supply of the virtual reality accessory, are showing “temporarily out of stock” and “sold out online” messages respectively.
Amazon:

Best… Read More

 The Gillmor Gang — Josh Elman, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Facebook jumps in with Notify and gives Twitter a run for its money in Notifications. Another Notifications Gang; collect all 9! Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More

 Innovation that involves sensitive medical technologies is challenging and provokes strong emotional reactions, but the reality is that the strongest criticisms of Theranos have more to do with business structure than their blood tests. Read More

 Cartoonist Steve Streza posted a tweet claiming that an extortionist would release his “tax id, tax forms, SSN, [and] DOB” if he did not pay one bitcoin to a certain bitcoin wallet. The extortion is quite ham-handed – there’s no way to confirm payment, for example and it’s not clear how much of the data was actually leaked in a recent Patreon. A Patreon… Read More

 Anyone hiring engineers in tech knows how much competition there is for talent; there just aren’t enough good engineers to go around. As a result of the incredibly high demand for talent, the supply side has responded by launching coding bootcamps all over the country and, indeed, the world. Thousands of post-college adults are dropping their careers and spending months and many thousands… Read More

 “There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come.” And so last weekend I visited the Basic Income Createathon–held, appropriately enough, at Brigade in San Francisco–to witness the early stirrings of a movement whose central goal may seem strange and radical … but which I expect to eventually transform the life… Read More