Creators of Tinder are working on something called Tinder Select. As far as I understand, Tinder Select is a special Tinder service available only to a particular group of people chosen by Tinder itself on the basis of their celebrity status and/or extraordinarily good looks. Tinder Select users may or may not be able to invite others to the service.In ...

A group of scientists from King Abdullah University of Science & Technology is working on a technology that allows for a remote or self-destruction of a smartphone. Their aim is to construct a special polymer that would be put inside the device. This polymer could then be triggered, by various means, to produce a large amount of heat. Heat would cause ...

According to analytics firm Flurry, U.S. smartphone users are spending average of five hours per day on their mobile devices, a whooping 20% more than they used to do by the beginning of 2016. Apps are what sees the biggest increase in use, with mobile browsers and even mobile games both seeing decline in use over the last few years. Research states ...

Every aspect of our lives (at least those of people living in the First World) is getting ”technologized”, so why not up our sex life to 2.0 as well. Apple's i.Con Smart Condom is Apple's answer to your need to have your apparatus wrapped in/rubbed by cybernetics. The device will monitor details of your sex life, such as duration of intercourse, ...

Axon, american company dealing in gadgets for police officers, is working on improvements to personal cameras that the officers in the US are beginning to use. Right now, the company is working on a special sensor. That sensor will be put inside every officer's holster, and will automatically activate the officer's camera whenever he/she takes his/her ...

Well... everyone has to die from something... we have heard of people dying when playing video games, although most of these (very, very few) cases were due to sleep deprivation and other problems caused by playing non-stop for long periods of time (my record is 23 hours, but that's nothing compared to some people). I do not think I have heard of anyone ...

Some time ago I reported to you that one bilion Yahoo accounts have been infiltrated by hackers in one of the largest cyber-attacks to date. Well, as it turns out, this wasn't the first time Yahoo was being targeted by e-criminals. According to inquiry by Securities and Exchange Commssion, portal has already been invaded between 2015 and 2016, with ...

Mr. Goodenough may be 94 years old, but that does not stop him from working (respect). Along with Maria Helena Braga, professor Goodenough has developed a battery that is said to be safer, more efficient AND cheaper than an everyday li-ion batteries we see in our smartphones. Among other benefits of their battery is increased longevity, more nature-friendly ...

If on last Tuesday you could not connect to an important/favourite website, there was nothing wrong with your web connection or web browser. On February 28th, one of Amazon Internet clouds suffered a breakdown. Multitude of websites make use of Amazon Web Service, so the service's failure meant that a huge chunk of Internet went down. Websites were ...

Facebook is testing artificial intelligence algorithms that are supposedly being able to detect suicidal tendencies in website's users. Facebook has not shared details of the project; all we know is that algorithms are supposed to find and react to patterns found in FB users' posts (like, I don't know, help me + knife + farewell = suicide, or something ...

Three years ago, Team 17, creators of Worms (all hail!), have published The Escapists, a game about making one's way out of more and more rigorous prisons. Now, after mere three years, The Escapists is available on mobile devices via Play Store. What does it offer for its price of $3.99? - elements of stealth, logic and adventure games, - twenty ...

Zombie Gunship Survival is a sequel to the 2011 game Zombie Gunship. Original was an interesting take on the old zombie apocalypse theme: you were put in command of a gunship, an armed military aircraft, and were tasked with destroying the undead menace on ground using 3D thermal image vision. ZG Survival does the same, but more; in addition to destroying ...