Super-Lightweight Drone Autonomously Avoids Obstacles

The age of commercial and private drones is upon us, exemplified by increasingly common stories of drone mishaps and even the likes Amazon announcing plans to launch a drone delivery service in the coming years. But there may not always be enough handlers trained or available to control all the varieties of drones making their...

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Apple Announces Top iPhone, iPad Apps of 2013

WHAT'S THIS? BY KURT WAGNER1 DAY AGO Finishing the year atop Apple's App Store list has never been more competitive. The company announced in October that the App Store features more than one million apps that have combined for more than 60 billion total app downloads. So, what does it take to reach the top? Apparently...

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Smartphone App Uses Selfies to Check Your Cholesterol Level

A team of engineers has designed a smartphone accessory and app that allows users to monitor their own blood cholesterol levels. Think of it as a sort of cholesterol selfie — or maybe a healthie? As researchers from Cornell University explain in a paper in the journal Lab on a Chip, all you need — aside from their attachment and...

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Apple's New Mac Pro Goes on Sale Dec

BY STAN SCHROEDER2 HOURS AGO Apple's new Mac Pro will be available to order starting on Thursday, the company announced on Wednesday. The oval-shaped desktop machine for professionals will start with a 3.7GHz, quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor, dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of VRAM each, 12GB of memory and 256GB of PCIe-based...

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Why 'Time Spent' Is One of Marketing's Favorite Metrics

Time is money. Time is the enemy. Time is on your side. We talk a lot about time, but the one thing we definitively know about time is there's never enough. For a marketer, that means you're going to have to work hard to get a minute or two from a consumer. You need to earn it, so if your site can garner a high time spent, pat yourself...

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Ask a Dev: Should Every Website Have an App?

If you want to build an app, one of the first questions you should ask yourself is whether to build it on the web or "go native," meaning write it specifically for iOS or Android. Our developer this week, Jake Riesterer, says the best performance is likely to come from designing the app with a particular operating system in...

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Pebble Update Adds 'Do Not Disturb' Mode

The Pebble smartwatch just got a nice update that offers a "do not disturb" mode and better support for notifications and alarms. The update comes just a month after Pebble received a major overhaul for iOS 7 users, including full notification support. The new update tweaks iOS performance, sending notifications more...

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Google Tips Helps You Do Cool Stuff With Google Products

Google has launched Google Tips, a website with a smorgasbord of helpful tips and less-known features of various Google products. The site is a very simple affair, consisting of rows of cards with helpful tips, which range from setting up Gmail on your mobile phone to grabbing your customized birthday Doodle. You can sort...

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Microsoft Sets Dates for Build 2014 Developer Conference

Microsoft formally broadcast the dates for its three-day Build 2014 developer seminar. It will take location from April 2 to 4 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. This will be the second consecutive construct held in San Francisco, a move the company made last year in a attempt to cultivate more developer interest in Windows 8. construct seminars...

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Where in the World Are Facebook's Developers?

Facebook users come from all corners of the globe and, apparently, so do its third-party developers. This new heat map from Facebook shows which countries around the world claim the most developers. The social network released the map on Tuesday at LeWeb, a global startup and tech conference in Paris, France. The company considers...

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Instagram Direct, Facebook's Pursuit of Snapchat Is Over

I was mostly wrong about Instagram's plans and also mostly right. I know, that oxymoronic statement makes little sense unless you consider that Instagram Direct, unveiled on Thursday in New York, is the very first big step into a full-scale encroachment on Snapchat's territory. It also means Facebook, to borrow a Taylor Swift lyric, will never,...

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Twitter Buckles Under Pressure Lets You Block Users Again

Twitter reversed its stance on impeding a second time Thursday evening, reverting to the initial principle in the face of what it admitted was marvellous opposition on the service. "We not ever desire to insert characteristics at the cost of users feeling less safe," Vice President of merchandise Michael Sippey wrote in a blog mail. The initial...

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You'll Make More Money If You Can Code

Being adept to discover marketadept digital skills is sluggish and tough — or so they say. Adda Birnir noticed a gender divide between a newspapers company's business and mechanical edge (read: men) versus the editorial edge (read: women). She conceived online tech learning platform Skillcrush to give women a way to learn marketable abilities...

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