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Watch The Adelaide Fires From A Firefighter's GoPro
GoPros and other miniature action cameras have changed the way that we watch significant events unfolding. Sometimes, they happen on our own doorsteps. A volunteer firefighter from South Australia has captured eight minutes of helmet-camera footage from Friday’s devastating fires, in the country’s bushfire-prone southern areas.
Garmin's Vívofit 2 Fitness Band Shames Your Laziness With Audible Alerts
What really set Garmin’s original vívofit apart from the myriad of other fitness trackers already on the market at the time wasn’t its always-on screen or its battery that was good for an entire year. It was the use of a thin red bar on the display that grew longer and longer while you were inactive. And Garmin’s new vívofit 2 improves on that guilt-inducing reminder with audible alarms that will eventually shame you into getting up and getting active.
Copyright Holders Asked Google To Remove 345 Million Links Last Year
Copyright holders were not shy about asking Google to remove pirated content in 2014. Last year, there were over 345 million requests to take down infringing content, according to a Torrent Freak summary of Google’s weekly transparency reports. That’s a 75 per cent increase from 2013. Google honoured most of the requests.
D-Link's New Wi-Fi Routers Look Like Reverse-Engineered Alien Technology
At one time when all you needed to connect was a couple of laptops, a cheap wireless router would more than suffice for most homes. But these days, when there’s everything from phones to tablets to TVs relying on your Wi-Fi network, it makes sense to splurge on your hardware. And D-Link’s new 11AC Ultra Performance Series routers promise speeds of up to 5.6 Gbps optimised for the myriad of different devices constantly hopping on and off your network.
Sony's New UHD TVs Will Run On Android TV
Rather than pack in ever more pixels or flex its screens, Sony is rolling out a number of technical and design tweaks aimed to make their benchmark-setting UHD televisions even better this year — and that includes a brand spankin’ new OS powered by Google.
Charlie Brown Will Still Miss That Place Kick In The CGI Peanuts Movie
Perhaps eventually all your childhood favourites will come back CGI’d, and that’s OK! At least as far as the upcoming Peanuts movie is concerned. Because as you can see in the latest trailer for the November 2015 movie, the look is a little different, but Charlie Brown’s probably still gonna wuff a punt, and adults are gonna talk like garbled trumpets.
Sony's Kaz Hirai On Hack: It's About Freedom Of Speech
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai started off his CES keynote by addressing the elephant in the room: how Sony is holding up after the giant hack that brought the company to its knees. “We were the victim of one of the most vicious and malicious cyberattacks in history,” he said, but was classy enough not to dwell on that point. He had a different message to share.
Qualcomm Says Wearables Aren't A Fad, And It Might Just Be Right
“This trend is not going away,” says Pankaj Kedia, the head of Qualcomm’s new wearables business unit. “This is not a fad.” Of course he’d say that — his job depends on it. But who other than Qualcomm — the company which dominates the mobile industry — would know for sure? So I grilled Qualcomm’s wearables boss about our sensor-equipped future.
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