Leah Becerra

Norway’s Doctors Still Use Floppy Disks, And They’re More Secure Than the Alternative

In Norway, doctors are clinging to older MS DOS-based electronic journals. As a result there’s a system in place that still employs floppy disks—and it works extremely well. But a blog post on Gundersen.net says the Norwegian government might be retiring the floppy disk option as soon as next year. Using floppy disks isn’t completely…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Not every app of the week is always new–sometimes even updates to apps are deserving enough for some fresh attention. This week there are a few updates to old goodies in the Windows Phone world, Android users can choose to take a step back in time to the days of analog video recording, and iOS…

Print Is Back and It’s Trouncing E-Book Sales

Print is not dead. Actually, it’s e-books that are having a rough time right now. The Association of American Publishers says e-book sales slumped about 10 percent in the first five months of 2015. This could be a sign that more people are returning to books with binding, or that more people are hybrid readers,…

NeoKylin Is the Desktop OS China Built As a Substitute For Windows

The Chinese government’s replacement for Windows is called NeoKylin, and it looks very familiar based on a hands-on from Quartz–which reports today that the OS is already running on more than 40 percent of commercial units sold in the country by Dell. Quartz fired up the latest “community version” of NeoKylin 6.0, which isn’t necessarily…

Skype Is Still Working To Restore Service To Some

Skype has been working to get its service back up and running for many users since about 4 AM Eastern Time. Most of those impacted by the network issue are having difficulty logging in on mobile and desktop apps. At 11AM, the company said that it had identified the problem and is working on a…

After 80 Years of Confusing People, the London Underground Has an Accurate Map 

Up until recently, the London Underground was difficult to navigate because of its beautifully-drawn yet horribly inaccurate map. But there’s a new map in town—actually, the London Underground’s been using a more accurate map for a while now and just not sharing it. The engineer Harry Beck created London’s minimal (and very inaccurate) map 82…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

It’s that day of the week again—the day when we post all the new apps worth checking out. This time around we’re highlighting Apple’s Android release (which has seen some major trolling), an app for iOS that’s all about helping you spend less time on your phone, and an alarm for Windows Phone that goes…

Even though watchOS 2 got the green light to launch today with iOS 9, that’s not going to happen thanks to a software bug. Apple gave TechCrunch a statement saying the bug was significant enough to put the watchOS update on hold, but that it would be released shortly. iOS 9 is still go to…

AT&T Is Improving Its “Unlimited” Data Policy, But It’s Still Technically Throttling

AT&T has finally altered the way it handles subscribers with grandfathered unlimited plans on the network. The company is still—technically—throttling them, but now rather than slowing data down at 5GB, AT&T will let unlimited plans’ usage soar to 22GB before applying any brakes. There are a number of things that could’ve led the company to…

Google’s Latest Hire Could Take Its Driverless Cars To Market

Google just hired a man who’s worked in the automotive industry for 25 years, John Krafcik, to lead the company’s self-driving vehicle project as Google Auto’s CEO. This hire is big. Why? Because it’s the first major hire from the automaker side of the road. Picking Krafcik to lead Google Auto is a sign that…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This week’s favorite apps have you covered for a lot of different scenarios. You need to book a flight for cheap? Check. Or maybe you’ve got some down time and want to watch a bunch of great videos that were picked out by professionals— there’s an app for that. We’ve also got an old favorite…

Pandora Really Wants Some Attention, Offers Ad-Free Listening For a Day 

Pandora is 10 years old and to celebrate, it’s holding “Listener Love Day.” Don’t worry, it just sounds creepy—it’s actually only a free pass to try out Pandora without commercials for a day. The no-commercial listening day has already started and will be over at 12AM Eastern Time Thursday. But starting tomorrow, if you pay…

Please Stop Naming Your Children After Guns

The debate over gun control in America has popped up a lot in the past few years, but I never thought it would eventually have this impact. Parents are naming their children after guns. And they’re doing it so frequently that the name Gunner (with the help of Gunnar) even made the Top 200 list…

Android Pay Can Be Tricked Into Running On Some Phones Right Now

Android Pay should be rolling soon, but if you can’t wait for soon to get here, there are ways to get the app working on your phone now. Well, kind of… Google Play Services 8.1 has already started to appear on some handsets, which makes sense because that update is necessary to run Android Pay…

Earth View Has the Perfect Photo to Replace your Old Wallpaper 

Google’s got your next digital wallpaper right here. Earth View is a collection of 1,500 of the most striking satellite view photographs that can be found in Google Earth. The best part is all the images are free to download and use on your own gadgets. There’s also an extension for Chrome that will give…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to another installment of sweet new apps. In this week’s batch we’ve got an app that takes the concept of live video streaming to the next level, a social app that lets you spout off your opinion as much as you’d like, and more. Without further ado, let’s dig in. Android Mirrativ If Twitch…

Finally: Hulu Offers No Ads, for $12 a Month

This was well overdue: Hulu is finally joining Netflix and Amazon to offer streaming without ads. But in order to get it, you’ll have to pay $4 extra. For $12 a month, you’ll be able to watch Hulu without having to sit through ads. If you don’t mind the ads so much, $8 a month…

The Googleplex Is Already Sporting the New Logo

Google just got a custom Sans facelift Tuesday and the font is already popping up all over the Googleplex campus. So naturally, employees are sharing photos of all the updated signs on their Google+ accounts. Even though this last photo was taken a little prematurely, scaffolding and all, it gets bonus points for web design…

New Leaks Show Off the Moto 360’s New “Sport” Edition

Reliable leaker Upleaks posted three images today of Motorola’s new Moto 360 Android Wear lineup, including the newest addition to the family: the Sport. In the image itself, the Sport watch appears to be tracking time, distance, pace and beats per minute. The older generation could also keep track of heart rate, but now —…

This Cover Art Game Invites You To Literally Judge a Book By Its Cover

We’ve all heard the idiom, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” But a new site called PlayJudgey.com encourages users to do just that—and its creators, Nate Gagnon and Dean Casalena, seem to have a moral of their own in mind: buy more books. The site displays a book cover, which you then rate on…