During Google’s I/O developer’s conference keynote, it actually slipped in quite a bit of, yes, developer news amongst all the noisy consumer launches. One biggie was the announcement that any and all companies looking for computing horsepower can…
From an end user’s perspective, it’s always nice to see developers take a step back and focus on streamlining their code, rather than simply piling on new features. Apple used the strategy to great success with Snow Leopard, and now Canonical is s…
In HTC and Nokia’s ongoing patent litigation, one patent infringement claim against HTC was dismissed today by the District Court of Mannheim, Germany. The patent in question — regarding “a communication network terminal for accessing internet” -…
Arqball has just released the FocusTwist app for iOS that lets you selectively focus after taking an image — without investing $400 in a Lytro light field camera. It works by automatically taking several shots with different focus points from you…
Although SimCity has become relatively stable following its problematic launch, there are naturally still ongoing bugs that the folks at EA Maxis have been working to fix. Thankfully, that version 2.0 update that was teased just over a week ago no…
When a company wants a green data center, it often has to build its own energy sources. Google knows that’s sometimes not practical, even for a company its size. To that end, it’s partnering with Duke Energy on a proposed business model that would…
We’re all about the future of the internet here at Engadget, so you can imagine our excitement when HP today announced that it’s shooting for the moon with its latest server system, the HP Moonshot. Promising significantly reduced energy consumption …
No business wants to labeled the worst company in America, especially for two years running, yet that’s the position EA finds itself in as voting continues on Consumerist’s annual poll. In response to the expected (and embarrassing) “…
Last Friday, The Verge revealed the existence of a dead-simple URL-based hack that allowed anyone to reset your Apple ID password with just your email address and date of birth. Apple quickly shut down the site and closed the security…
In an article this weekend, The New York Times takes a look at New York City’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, a small team of data-science specialists that combine public data with brute server power to help city agencies ge…
