Author: Egon Kilin

Green week – environmentally friendly tech

This week came as a breakthrough in many tech-related areas, but most noticeably in green tech development and environmentally friendly designs and additions to products and services. Even though we’ve seen designs similar to the ones below, we should keep our eyes on these ones because they stand out in their potential through cost-effectiveness and ...

A look at Atari 360°

Atari has become a struggling company in the past few years, nearing bankruptcy in 2013, even after various mergers and acquisitions. Atari SA is still not in the best place but it has relaunched with the Atari Casino, which marked the company’s entrance in the social casino games industry. The platform is being developed alongside ...

Next generation smartglass debuted at Wearable Tech Expo

Pivothead introduced its next generation smartglass today at the New York Tech Expo. Pivothead’s SMART (Simple Modular Application-Ready Technology) line begun when the original Pivothead product launched in 2012, but their next-gen smartglass surpasses Pivothead’s initial attempt at wearable devices. The new Pivothead’s main attraction is the fact that it can stream live footage and ...

Air Waveguide – optical cable out of thin air

A breakthrough has been made in information transmission at the University of Maryland, funded by the U.S. Military and National Science Foundation. The air waveguide is an attempt to create an optical cable in thin air using lasers. They tried recreating the process taking place in optical cables using a high-powered laser split into multiple ...

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments gameplay trailer released

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is set to be released on September 2 this year. The game’s publisher, Focus Home Interactive has decided to release a 23 minute trailer of the game you can find here in order to present one of the six cases you will be solving in the game. In the gameplay, ...

Tor users beware!

Alarming new information has come to light from far away Russia about the country’s policy on internet anonymity. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has set a bounty pool on Tor users’ heads. Tor is an anonymizing network, free of charge, originally designed for the U.S. navy and it protects its users from any kind ...

Categories: Tech

Tags: anonymity, privacy, Russia, Tor

Unlocking your phone may become legal

Good news has emerged among journalists for those of us who do not like our phones being locked to a single carrier and having to find alternate ways to go around unlocking our devices. In the U.S., the House of Representatives has approved the Senate’s bill petitioning for the legalization of phone unlocking. They proposed ...