We've been fans of the to-do app Wunderlist for years. It won us over from the start with its minimalist, easy-to-use design, and every update brought even better features: shared to-dos, email notifications, and recurring tasks, among others. And we're not its only fans: Wunderlist was Apple's 2013 App of the Year. We caught up with founder and CEO Christian Reber to find out how one of our favorite apps came to life.
After a trademark dispute, Microsoft has renamed its online storage and syncing tool SkyDrive to OneDrive. While that may take some getting used to, the change also gives Microsoft an opportunity to introduce a few new features. Namely, storage space referrals and automatic photo backups.
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Harry Styles somehow got even sexier.
For Jimmy Fallon's inaugural week as Tonight Show host, the funny man asked his famous buddies to swing by.
On Tuesday, Fallon invited Kristen Wiig to appear on the show, but the gracious comedian allowed her spot to be filled by another celeb: One Directioner Harry Styles
This isn't the first time Wiig has stepped aside while visiting Fallon. Over the summer on Late Night, Wiig posed as basketball legend Michael Jordan.
We don't know if Wiig is having a personality crisis or simply trying to stretch her improv chops, but Harry Styles better watch his back. Read more...
There are lots of great computer monitors out there, but if you want more screen real estate without spending more money, a 4K television could be your best bet.
Facebook Paper may not be catching fire, but it won't fold anytime soon either.
Paper fell out of the top 100 free apps in Apple's App Store this week, less than a month after it launched
The iPhone app dipped to as low as 110 in the U.S. App Store rankings on Tuesday, according to data from app analytics service App Annie. As of publication, it had climbed back somewhat to 91, just behind a third-party app called InstaSize, which is intended as an unofficial companion to Facebook-owned Instagram
Facebook launched Paper, a social news reader, on Feb. 3 and received a tremendous amount of press coverage, not to mention getting promoted by Apple in the coveted top spot in the App Store. All of that helped the app hit No. 2 in the App Store rankings in the early days. Read more...
The Oculus Rift aims to change the way we play video games with its fully-immersive virtual reality headset, but it also has its sights set on impacting the way we consume all media, including movies.
Video tech startup Condition One is currently working on a documentary called "Zero Point" about virtual reality headsets, made specifically for the Oculus Rift. Although the production was announced last year, the company released its first interactive trailer, which gives a fascinating taste of what we might see.
The Oculus Rift supports 3D movies and a 360-degree viewing experience — and "Zero Point" will take advantage of both — but the trailer is limited to 180-degree angles for now. But the two-minute clip lets you move your mouse in different directions to see different perspectives, likening the experience to moving your head while wearing the Oculus Rift Read more...
Now we know one of the big ideas that musician-entrepreneur Pharrell Williams had under his enormous hat: Taking plastic trash from the ocean and turning it into jeans.
Pharrell recently announced plans to launch a new jeans collection with the denim label G-Star RAW. The collection, called G-Star RAW for the Oceans, will be created using fabric from Bionic Yarn. We've been sterilizing and melting down plastic bottles to make synthetic threads for years now but Bionic Yarn's new thread will apparently originate with plastic waste pulled from the ocean. The details aren't available yet, though. Hat tip Grist. Read more...
Netflix is one of the few internet services that is hard to improve upon. For a small fee you can binge watch a huge library of movies and television shows in a slick interface on just about any device you own. This won't stop us from trying, though. Here are some of the best ways to improve on an already great Netflix experience.
Forget Google Wallet. A London-based startup has created object, pose and gesture recognition technology that could let you merely wave your wallet at a computer screen to initiate an online payment.
That's just one of many possible applications for Seemove, a technology from Seeper. As the video below illustrates, Seemove can be used for Minority Report- and Iron Man types of pose and gesture-recognition that will let you pretend you're Tom Cruise or Tony Stark. Only here, as well as manipulating a computer with hand and arm movements, you can also train the system to recognize any object, like your smartphone allowing you to then literally "pull" photos and videos from your device. Read more...
You need to invest your money wisely in order to really grow it, but unfortunately not many people know about the basics of investing , much less the stock market . Wall Street Survivor wants to turn that around, with free courses and games to demystify personal finance—especially investing—for everyone.
This Pharrell mashup will keep you up all night to get happy.
This video is equally as impressive as the music: Pop cover masters Pomplamoose created a catchy mashup of "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, blended with Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and "Lose Yourself to Dance." Williams performs vocals on all three of the original tracks, making this mashup Pharrell-tastic
The video was created using a one-shot technique and, as the name suggests, the action is recorded on a single camera. The video follows singer Nataly Dawn around the room as a projector displays clips of the duo performing the song on different instruments in classic Pomplamoose style Read more...
NEW YORK — It's never too early to turn your child into a computer programmer
A new board game called Robot Turtles is attracting plenty of attention at the 2014 International American Toy Fair for teaching kids as young as 3 the basics of coding.
Robot Turtles is the most-funded board game in Kickstarter history, far surpassing its $25,000 goal with $630,000 in pledges. The company is now accepting preorders, priced at $24.99, and will ship in June.
The concept comes from former Google programmer Dan Shapiro, who wanted to share his love for coding with his two daughters. Although many computer-based platforms for preschools are already on the market, Shapiro wanted to take the learning process offline with a traditional board game Read more...
You can get a complete workout with just your body . This "Periodic Table of Bodyweight Exercises" showcases dozens of moves—from easy to insane—you can do to build strength and/or reduce fat. The clickable infograph leads you to videos showing how to do each move.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going to bat for an open Internet. The agency plans to rewrite the rules that govern how Internet traffic is delivered from service providers to customers in the wake of a court decision that struck down previous rules protecting net neutrality
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined the commission's proposed new rules in a statement released Wednesday. The agency will not appeal the court's decision; rather, the FCC is viewing the decision as "an invitation for the commission to act to preserve a free and open Internet," according to a senior FCC official who briefed reporters. Read more...
Google has been testing its major redesign of Google Maps' web interface for the better part of a year, and it's at last ready to bring the new look to everyone. The search giant has started rolling out the updated layout to all desktop users; only...
When Nokia came out with the Lumia 1520, we were treated to a new side of Windows Phone. All of a sudden, Microsoft's smartphone OS had come of age; it was using the best available hardware specs and a wave of big-name apps had finally arrived in the...
We're pretty excited about the Spike S-512 supersonic business jet, but this latest feature could potentially make a three-hour Mach 1.6 hop from New York to London a bit nerve-wracking for uneasy fliers. A post on the company's blog this week...
We get it. It's been a year since you got a new phone, and it doesn't have a Super Ultra HD screen, 80MP camera or fancy pants 50-core processor. You pine for the latest and greatest mobile toy, but it's probably going to cost you a lot, right? Well,...
If your Android smartphone regularly doubles as a peer-to-peer download machine, you'll want to check out BitTorrent's newly overhauled Torrent App and its µTorrent counterpart. Both apps have far sleeker interfaces that offer more control over...
After seven years of hosting the iTunes Festival in the UK, Apple is at last bringing the concert series to the US for 2014. The music extravaganza will be held in Austin from March 11th through the 15th, running alongside South by Southwest (SXSW)....
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Sony recently bid farewell to three device categories. The long-struggling Japanese consumer electronics giant is selling off its PC division, spinning out its TV...
Canonical is finally poised to enter the mobile market. After years of teases, promises and demos, the company has locked up the first two manufacturers of Ubuntu phones. Meizu and BQ Readers will be releasing handsets with the Linux-based OS...
More than a month after the bulk of its net neutrality rules were struck down in an appeals court case against Verizon, the FCC has announced that it will not appeal the ruling. The decision was a significant victory for Verizon, as it essentially...