Author: gyasistory
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You Can Now Command The Tesla You Probably Don’t Have With The Smartwatch You Probably Don’t Have
By Greg Kumparak Do you have a Tesla? Do you also have an Android Wear smartwatch? Do you wish they worked better together? Don’t worry! Solving the #1 problem of Batmans everywhere, these guys have figured out how to let you control a Tesla Model S through a smartwatch. Read More Source: Technology
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CrunchWeek: Facebook’s Big Earnings Win, Life On The D-List, And Uber’s Summer Moves
By Ryan Lawler Let’s face it: We’re right smack in the middle of summer, at the time of year when tech news slows to a crawl. But that didn’t stop us from filming a wildly entertaining episode of CrunchWeek, because when the tech news gods give us lemons, we make lemonade. Read More Source: Technology…
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Google Wants To Improve Its Translations Through Crowdsourcing
By Frederic Lardinois Over the years, Google Translate has gotten significantly better at giving its users (relatively) legible translations fo most commonly used languages. It’s still far off from being perfect, though, and today Google announced a new initiative that aims to get more input from its users to improve its translations. The Google Translate…
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A Most Dangerous Machine
By Sarah Perez Facebook’s News Feed has decided that I like gruesome murders. Actually, senseless deaths and gruesome murders. I’m not exactly sure when the problem started, but I imagine it was around the time of one of the now too-common stories of mass shootings like Sandy Hook. Or at least, that’s what I like…
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Wearable Fashion Toy Linkitz Teaches Girls How To Program
By Sarah Buhr MIT PhD Lyssa Neel is using socializing and accessorizing to get get girls interested in programming. Neel’s invention, Linkitz, is a wearable electronic toy that allows kids to rearrange, take apart and snap together electronic blocks that blink and buzz to change their behavior. This teaches them programming in a fun way,…
