Daily Archives: November 12, 2015


VrKhurqQcFeChm4BWfOjV_Mo6QrECjg7hQxTfxgSveg,lDlimzzw7g9JSJrkQUDFcJnFZgsT3fzk8kcv8axw0no Cobalt is a private aircraft manufacturer launching its first two models today. The fully-certified Co50 Valkyrie and its experimental version, the Valkyrie-X, are available for pre-order starting today. Valkyrie is super sleek and built for speed. It’s the fastest in its class (single piston engines), with the ability to travel up to 260 knots, as opposed to the typical 242 knots. Read More

Meet Valkyrie, A Super Sleek Aircraft Taking On The Private ...


capitol Senators and House representatives this week are calling on Congress to act on bills that would limit location tracking and phone surveillance after the Supreme Court decided not to hear a cell phone case earlier this week. The justices on Monday declined to review a federal court’s decision from earlier this year that police do not need a warrant to seize and search cell phone records… Read More

Pressure In Congress Grows For GPS Tracking Reform After Supreme ...






Screen Shot 2015-11-11 at 5.00.29 PM The internets lit up today when someone posted a photo of a cop talking to someone in a self-driving car. Yep, it got pulled over. Why? According to Google, it was going too slow. According to the original poster, the Mountain View police officer didn’t get the memo on these things patrolling the streets, so of course wanted to know why the thing was going so damn slow: Yes. We talked to… Read More

Google Self-Driving Car Pulled Over For Going Too Slow


misfit shine Watchmaker Fossil Group said today it would acquire Misfit, which creates various wearable and sleep trackers in addition to a health-tracking platform, for $260 million. Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit, will serve as Fossil’s CTO. Misfit makes devices like the Shine, a wearable fitness and sleep tracker that costs $99 that the company says has a 6-month battery life. The company came out with… Read More

Fossil Group Buys Health-Tracking Wearable Startup Misfit For $260M



vevo Following today’s launch of the anticipated YouTube Music application, music video streaming app Vevo, which distributes videos to YouTube and counts Google as an investor, is also introducing a new experience of its own. The company today is rolling out a completely revamped mobile app, initially on iOS, which reimagines the Vevo application as one that’s focused more heavily… Read More

Vevo Follows YouTube Music’s Debut With An Upgraded Music App ...




Cat Djs Twitter tweeted out a new toy for you to play with for video called “ScratchReel.” Basically, it lets you scrub a short GIF back and forth for cool effects. Check it out here (to see the actual effect you have to visit the native tweet): Spotted a ScratchReel yet? Scrub back & forth to help the @WSL surfer escape the tube! ⏪ ⏩ Only on Twitter, dude. Read More

Twitter Doing More With GIFs, Introduces Feature Called “ScratchReel”