Category: Technology
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EyeEm Partners With Foursquare And The Huffington Post For Latest Photography Challenges
By Kyle Russell Photo-sharing service EyeEm is announcing today that it is partnering with Foursquare and The Huffington Post to get photos taken by its users in front of more people with the introduction of two new competitions in its iOS and Android apps. Read More Source: Technology
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Russian Hackers Probably Have Your Passwords. Now What?
By Cat Zakrzewski By now you’ve seen Tuesday’s New York Times report that a security firm found a Russian hacking ring had pilfered 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses. Like many people, your first question is probably whether or not you were included in that dragnet. Hold…
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Pyrus Shows What Productivity Apps Will Look Like On Android Wear
By Kyle Russell The simplicity of Google’s Android Wear forces developers to be especially thoughtful about what functions actually need to make the jump, which is easier said than done for some apps. For every category of apps, assumptions about how things work have to be tested and new ways of doing things become standard…
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Square Will Now Pay Hackers For Reporting Bugs Responsibly
By Greg Kumparak If you consider yourself something of a white hat hacker, listen up: you’ve got a new service to poke at without fear of getting hauled into court, and it’s a big one. Last night at the BlackHat security conference, Square’s resident hacker Dino Dai Zovi announced that the company would be launching…
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Disrupt Winner Vurb Raises $8 Million To Steal Mobile Search From Google
By Josh Constine The conundrum of mobile is you either use one convenient app that does many things mediocrely, or you have to discover and hop between a flotilla of single-purpose apps. Vurb wants to solve this for mobile search by aggregating utility from top third-party apps so you can make decisions rather than click…
