The Daily Roundup for 05.10.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, …read more
Day: May 10, 2013
You probably can't leap over this six-foot homemade Piranha Plant (nor should you try)
We’d probably say something like, “I always thought it would be cool to build a giant fire breathing piranha plant,” …read more
Foursquare's website now lets you sort businesses by price, hours and check-ins
Yelp users have enjoyed advanced sorting for years, but as Foursquare grows beyond …read more
The Minds Behind XPRIZE: The making of the next visionary challenge
There have been many critical moments in the history of space exploration — Sputnik in 1957, Yuri …read more
This week on gdgt: Fitbit's Flex may never leave your wrist
Each week, our friends at gdgt go through the latest gadgets and score them to …read more
Push notifications come to Chrome and Chrome OS with battery life as a focus
The push notifications on our mobile devices aren’t just for convenience’s sake — they let apps …read more
FCC proposes boosted in-flight WiFi speed with 14GHz spectrum by 2020
The FCC released a report yesterday detailing plans to free up 500 megahertz of spectrum, in …read more
Editor's Letter: 3D printing grows up
In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news. <p class="image-container" style="text-align: …read more
Amazon Cloud Drive Photos gives iOS users one more safety net
Avid iOS shutterbugs already have Dropbox, Flickr and any number of other internet-based safeguards for …read more
University student crafts app that helps blind smartphone users snap photos
Dustin Adams, a Ph.D student at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has teamed up with …read more