Mario Aguilar

Parrot’s New Fixed-Wing Drone Is a 50 MPH Party in the Sky

The consumer drone explosion of the last few years has been mostly limited to quadcopter-style multirotors. Until now. Meet the Disco, Parrot’s super-fast drone party in the sky. The Disco is smart and it’s easy, but the coolest part is that it rips. This thing can go up to 50 mph. The new fixed-wing drone…

Oculus Touch Delayed Which Is a Total Bummer

Oculus Touch, the innovative controllers designed for use with the Oculus Rift VR headset, has been delayed until the second half of 2016. The final consumer version of the Rift is still expected to ship in the first quarter of 2016. In a blog post Oculus explained that the Touch just wasn’t ready for prime…

Everything Apple Introduced This Year Kinda Sucked

In 2015, Apple made a series of flashy new introductions of both hardware and software. Several seemed amazing at first, but on closer inspection, they were all disappointing. Here is the year in Apple things that sucked. MacBook Apple’s latest vision for an overhauled laptop is a gorgeous piece of industrial design that borders on…

Report: Google Is Building a Better, Smarter Messaging App

Google is gearing up to make a better messaging app, according to the Wall Street Journal. If it’s as solid as some of Google’s other recent introductions, this is potentially exciting news. The new mobile-focused app would reportedly employ artificial intelligence and chatbots in an effort to lure users in. The chatbots would work much…

Do Not Start Playing This HTML5 Drum Machine If You Have Anything to Accomplish Today

A few months ago we told you about the insanely addictive HTML5 Drum Machine, which allows you to craft beats right in your browser. That was rad. The new HTML-909 Rhythm Composer has now arrived to consume your attention. Warning: It’s fun. Whereas the original HTML5 Drum Machine was modeled after the legendary Roland TR-808,…

Iranian Cyber Spies Reportedly Hacked Into a Dam Near New York City

Iranian hackers gained access to the control system at the Bowman Avenue Dam in 2013. The dam is some twenty miles from New York City, according to The Wall Street Journal. Yikes. While there’s no apparent damage related to the hack, it’s alarming for a number of reasons. The scariest bit is that it reportedly…

You Can Now Take a Really Boring Virtual Reality Tour of the White House 

“Tour the White House in virtual reality.” That sounds unbelievably cool, but maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that it’s really not that exciting. Just posted to YouTube, this new 360 video guides you through a tour of the White House’s holiday decorations. If you don’t have a Google Cardboard viewer, you can just drag the…

Facebook Is Testing the “Yelp Killer” It Should’ve Launched Ages Ago

Facebook is testing out a new, unannounced tool that allows you to search for all kinds of services in your area. Can Facebook finally kill Yelp? For all its foibles, Yelp has for years remained the defacto source of information about everything from where to go to dinner to where to get your hair done.…

Pandora Aims to Beat the Boredom With Its New Thumbprint Radio Station

Faltering internet radio Pandora’s newest effort to reinvent itself is a newly personalized radio station called Thumbprint Radio, which is based on all of the thumbs you’ve ever given the service. Pandora has been in the streaming music game a very long time, and though it’s apparently losing ground to competitors like Spotify and Apple…

Chromecast Audio Is Now the Super Cheap Way to Wirelessly Fill Multiple Rooms With Music

Chromecast Audio, Google’s dongle that turns any speaker with an aux jack into a wireless speaker, has only been out in the world a few months, but it’s already getting some new powers that help justify the teensy dongle. Today, Google announced two new features. The coolest is the new ability to sync together multiple…

Google Play Music’s Family Plan Is Live, and It’s a Great Deal

You can now sign up for the Google Play Music family plan announced earlier this fall. $15 connects up to six accounts to Google Play Music. It’s a fantastic deal. In addition to unfettered, ad-free access to Google’s great streaming music service, the six accounts will also get access to YouTube Red, Google’s newly launched…

Yahoo Is Spinning Off Everything Except Alibaba

Yahoo is reversing its plan to spin-off its huge stake in Chinese retail monster Alibaba. Instead it will spin off its core internet business, including names you recognize like Flickr, Tumblr, et al, into another business. It’s a riveting morning in Marissa Mayer’s empire. What does this mean for you right now, non-Yahoo investor? Very…

Dropbox Is Killing Mailbox and Carousel 

In an effort to get its business back on track, Dropbox will be shuttering two promising, yet unfulfilled ventures beyond its core cloud-storage service. Email app Mailbox will shut down in February, and photo app Carousel will follow suit in March. The company explained the rationale in a blog post this morning: Building new products…

Really excellent image editing tool Adobe Lightroom Mobileis now free on Android, meaning you won’t need a $10 per month Creative Cloud subscription to get it to work properly. The app went free on iOS earlier this fall.

EazeMD App Gets You a Weed Prescription Without Actually Visiting a Doctor

Twenty-three states as well asthe District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana in some form, which is just fantastic news for stoners. But if actually going to see a doctor to get a prescription is too much trouble for you, a new app has people in California covered. This new app comes to you from…

Hello Barbie Could Have Exposed Information About Children to Hackers

It seems Vtech isn’t the only toy company playing it fast and loose with children’s privacy. Security researchers have discovered myriad security flaws that make Mattel’s Hello Barbie connected doll hackable. When Hello Barbie was introduced earlier this year, the doll’s connected technologycame under scrutiny from parents and advocacy groups concerned about data security and…

Microsoft’s annualBuild developer conference will be held from March 30-April 1st in San Francisco, company exec Steven Guggenheimer announcedon Twitter. Expect news about HoloLens and Windows 10 plus a surprise or two. Read our recap of the best and worst of Build 2015 here.

Google’s Cardboard Camera App Takes VR-Ready 360 Photos In Seconds

The future promise of VR headsets is immense, but perhaps the biggest impediment to their wider adoption is the lack of actual content you can watch on them. To its credit, Google’s really pushing hard to solve the problem. It’s latest effort is Cardboard Camera, which makes taking a 360 degree snapshot a breeze. Using…

Ford is rolling out support for Siri Eyes-Free to five million vehicles dating from 2011. The feature will allow you to activate Siri on your phone using the voice-recognition button on vehicle steering wheels. It’s notfull-blown CarPlay, but hey, it’s something.

Android Creator Andy Rubin Reportedly Wants to Make His Own Android Phones

Andy Rubin, estranged father of the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, is reportedly gearing up to launch his own Android hardware startup. Andy Rubin making smartphones! It could happen! According to The Information, Rubin has been trying to raise money to start a hardware company to produce phones. As the report points out, the…