It turns out Siri takes things very personally. It’s perfectly fine with you barking orders at it all day, but mention her competition, and she turns nasty. For example, when a user says “Okay Glass” to Siri, she responds when several cutthroat remarks about Google’s latest invention, according to The … Read More
Google has announced that individuals can now apply for a Trekker backpack to help map the remoter parts of the planet and released a promo video (below) to that effect. They’re looking for tourism boards, non-profits, research organizations, or “other third parties” (read: someone we can trust with our expensive … Read More
The console wars look like they’re going to get crowded: the Wall Street Journal is reporting that tech giant Google is getting ready to jump into the fray. Google’s hypothetical console would be based on Android, which already powers three quarters of smartphones and over fifty per cent of tablets … Read More
Anatomy of a Hack – Ars Technica Just how easy is it for a cracker to solve a password? Ars interviewed three crackers who demolished a list of 16,000 passwords, one with a 90% success rate. How A War Hero Became a Serial Bank Robber – Buzzfeed One combat medic … Read More
Google is ready to take on Pandora and Spotify with its new streaming music service, which may debut at Google’s I/O conference. According to the Verge, Google has signed deals with the three major record labels: Warner, Sony and Universal, meaning they’ll have no shortage of music. The new service, along … Read More
