Mario Aguilar

Amazon Prime Music Impressions: Free With Prime! But Not Quite Enough

Prime Music is a free benefit for legions of Amazon Prime members. It makes Prime an even better deal than it already was. But is it so good that you can give up your other music services altogether? Here’s a brief investigation based on a couple of hours of use. Selection When I learned the…

Beats Powerbeats2 Wireless: Pricey, Rugged Running Headphones

Beats has created a new version of its Powerbeats headphones designed for running. Powerbeats2 Wireless are sweatproof running headphones that get music from you phone via Bluetooth. They cost you $200. And we’ll tell you right now, that’s more than they’re worth. Like their predecessors, Powerbeats2 Wireless are buds with little tails that clamp on…

Amazon Prime Music: One Million Songs, Free For Prime Subscribers

Here comes Prime Music, a free service for Amazon Prime subscribers with over a million songs available for streaming and cached download. Amazon Prime was already an amazing deal—perhaps the best in all of tech—and today, it’s getting even better. Like free two-day shipping and Prime Instant Video, Prime Music will be one of the…

You can now buy your new Kindle or Kindle Fire on an installment plan from Amazon.

Report: Amazon Is Launching a Service To Help You Find a Babysitter

Reuters reports that later this year Amazon will start testing a marketplace for services, where users can find and hire everything from babysitters to handymen. It will be testing the service in limited areas to gauge demand and figure out logistics before moving forward with a broader launch. According to the report, Amazon has been…

14-Year-Old Kids “Hack” Into ATM Using Default Security Code

A couple of crafty 14-year-old kids from Winnipeg figured out how to get past the security on a a Bank of Montreal ATM. Crazy as it might sound, the “hack” didn’t require any advanced computer hacking at all—these kids just looked up the ATM manual on the internet. The Edmonton Journal reports that Matthew Hewlett…

Google Brings Its 3D-Modeling Project Tango to Tablets Too

Google just announced a Project Tango tablet development kit that expands the company’s 3D modeling experiment. The project comes to you from ATAP, Google’s research team that works on crazy projects. This is future tech we’re not even sure about yet. The new dev kit is packed with an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, 4GB of…

Internet Vulnerability Left Encrypted Data Exposed For 10 Years

It’s been just a few months since the HeartbleedOpenSSL security flaw was discovered, and we’re again learning about gaping hole in the widely used security protocol. The good news is that there’s a fix. The bad news is that the vulnerability has existed for a decade, and we’ll never know how much it was exploited.…

Looks Like Amazon’s Launching Its Rumored Smartphone on June 18th

Amazon just announced a mysterious launch event in Seattle on June 18th. Well, really, we pretty much know what it’s going to be. Though we can’t be sure, the video attached to the invitation all but reveals that Amazon will announce the 3D smartphone we’ve been hearing about forever. The teaser video above hints at…

In its quest to develop cheaper products people might be more inclined to buy, The New York Times is launching yet another bite-size subscription, NYT Opinion. For $1.50 a week, you’ll get access to just the opinion section, columnists and a few related extras.

Apple Code Hints That Bigger iPhones and iPads Are On The Way

Yesterday, Apple pushed out a beta for its latest suite of developer tools, Xcode 6. And inside, there’s new functionality that hints at iPads and iPhones of varying screen sizes and resolutions. It’s just the latest evidence that new hardware is on the way soon. The Xcode development environment allows you to set the model…

Instagram Update Adds More Sophisticated Photo Editing Tools

An Instagram update that’s hitting today will add new more sophisticated tools to let you adjust 10 tools via sliders, including brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth and other parameters. You’ll also be able to adjust the strength of the preset filters you apply Here’s the complete set of tools from Instagram’s Help pages: Filter strength Adjust…

AirPlay Won’t Need a Wi-Fi Connection in iOS 8

iOS 8 will support “peer-to-peer AirPlay discovery and playback,” which means that you won’t need to be connected to a wireless network to use AirPlay. That’s a really nice evolution of Apple’s wireless media streaming protocol The tidbit was discovered buried within the enterprise section of Apple’s iOS 8 preview. As written, the new peer-to-peer…

​Everything Apple Tried to Kill Today at WWDC

Today at WWDC, Apple announced a huge batch of products aimed straight at the heart existing companies and apps. Here are just a few of the things that are feeling a spinning beachball target on their backs. Dropbox iCloud has never been a hugely appealing cloud storage option, that’s at least partially because Dropbox and…

iOS 8 Apps Will Finally Be Able to Work Together

Until now, Apple has had very stringent rules about how apps can run in iOS. Apps have always run in “sandboxes” so they can’t talk to each other. Apple is finally loosening this restriction so that apps can work together. In short, Apple is expanding its support of extensibility, so that apps will be able…

As rumored, Siri will be getting Shazam song recognition in Apple iOS 8, so that figuring out what you’re listening to is as easy as holding down your home button. This is faster, increasing the likelihood that the song won’t end before you figure out what it is.

​OS X Yosemite: Everything You Need to Know About the Big Redesign

Apple’s follow up to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, will be OS X Yosemite, following with the theme of naming OS versions after impressive California landmarks. Last year’s WWDC was all about giving iOS an overhaul. This year’s star will be Apple’s desktop operating system. Here’s what you need to know. As we suspected, the new…

Even Security Dogs Need Badges to Get Into Apple’s WWDC Keynote

Every tech nerd in the world wants to be at the Apple WWDC keynote that starts in just about one hour. Sadly, uhhh, we don’t all get to go, and security at the event is so tight that even the guard dogs have badges. We first learned about the WWDC guard dog badges from CNET…

Leaked secret Star Wars Episode 7 photos bring great news for fans

TMZ just posted a huge set of 45 leaked images taken at one of the film setlocs of the forthcoming Star Wars Episode 7 directed by J.J. Abrams. The images were taken in Abu Dhabi and they are great news for the fans of the series who complained about Lucas’ overuse of green screen: They…

WWDC 2014 Predictions: What’s Next for iOS, OS X, and Apple (Updated)

WWDC kicks off Monday June 2nd, and as usual we’re expecting exciting things from Apple’s annual developer extravaganza. It’s almost a given that we’ll get a parade of updates to iOS and OS X, but what else do Tim Cook and Co have planned for the party? Here are our best bets. iOS 8 Every…