Mario Aguilar

Sony Launches the First 4K Download Service With 70 Titles

The biggest problem with all the big fancy UltraHD televisions practically every major manufacturer has released over the last year is that there’s practically no 4K content out there. Thanks to Sony’s new Video Unlimited 4K service, now there are 70 films you can rent or download. Sony had promised the new service would go…

Sony MDR-10 Headphones: A Legendary Audio Brand Gets Back to Basics

Sony has been a leader in personal audio since the very beginning. They basically invented it. Remember the Walkman? The new MDR-10-line headphones are a new mainstream offering that might reclaim your heart by focusing on the basics—no matter what kind of headphones you’re looking for. The MDR-10 closed-back headphones come in standard (MDR-10R), Bluetooth…

Amazon Accidentally Leaks New Kindle Paperwhite and Sept. 30 Ship Date

Amazon has reportedly leaked details about the second generation Kindle Paperwhite, which is apparently set to ship at the end of this month, on September 30th. According a post on Forum.HR, Amazon posted a landing page (since taken down) of the new Kindle Paperwhite. Oopsies. Introduced last year, Kindle Paperwhite was a revolution in ereaders,…

Spotify Connect: Sonos-Like Powers That Bend to Your Budget

Spotify is getting into the hardware game. The company is teaming up with a slew of great audio companies to bake Spotify right into Wi-Fi connected speakers. And it’s not just speakers—the new system makes juggling your tunes between your phone, tablet, and computer a piece of cake, too. Here’s the facile music experience you’ve…

Open a Beer With a Frisbee: The Trick You Need to Learn Today

Never under-estimate the ingenuity of a bro who needs to open a beer. How the hell does this even work? The spin from the whirling ‘bee twists it off? Or is the disc acting more like a lever? Alright people, last beach weekend of the year (T_T)—time to figure this out. We’ve seen beers opened…

Is Your Terrible Laptop Posture Ruining Your Back?

Thanks to super-light laptops, you’re not killing your back carrying a computer around any more. But, man, the terrible things we’re doing to our bodies anyway. This Samsung ad is just perfect. Oh the contortions of our spines. How are we destroying our backs thanks to our super-portable computers. Let us count the ways? Working…

Apple’s In-Store iPhone Trade-In Program Is Coming Today

Starting today, Apple will be offering an in-store trade-in program for iPhones. The program complements Apple’s existing online effort, which gets you an Apple Store gift card in exchange for your old phone. Apple has reportedly confirmed the program, but there aren’t details about how it’ll work just yet. According to CNBC, the new program…

Samsung Smartwatch Leak Suggests It’ll Be a Dashboard for Your Phone

The frequently reliable Ev_Leaks Twitter account just posted a pair of screenshots that give us a peek at the setup app for Samsung Galaxy Gear, which Samsung is set to announce on September 4th. If these Gear Manager shots are real, the smartwatch will likely rely heavily on your phone do anything. If we believe…

Digg for Android Is Finally Here: Get Your Read On a Million Ways

The Digg app for iOS has been around for a while, but until now, Android users have been left out of the fun. No longer. Digg for Android is here. What does it do? It’s a combination between Digg’s top stories page and Digg’s minimalist RSS reader. Setup is a breeze because it pulls all…

Facebook Wants to Use Your Profile Pic to Help Automatic Photo Tagging

Today, Facebook is proposing a series of changes to its terms if service. There’s a lot of legal mumbo jumbo, but the most interesting piece is that Facebook wants to start using your profile photo as the basis for suggesting that you be tagged in your friends’ photos. What Facebook’s really saying here is that…

The Morbid Art of Making Dead Bodies Beautiful

Here’s a look at the delicate process of preparing a dead body for a funeral. Warning: Watching this video will force you to confront your own mortality. But at least it shows that while death may not be pretty, what you leave behind can be. Produced by by producer Patrick Abboud from Australia’s tech news…

Remember Samsung’s crazy Android-powered Galaxy NX interchangeable-lens smart camera? It’s going to cost $1600—$1700 if you want the 18-55mm kit lens. And you still need to find a way to pay for a data plan. No carriers are on board to sell the camera just yet either. Oof.

Unbelievable Google Street View Captures a Space Shuttle Flyover

When Google’s army of Street View vehicles takes to the streets, there’s no telling what those wandering eyes will see. Still it’s hard to believe that a Google Street View camera captured a space shuttle flying over the New Jersey Turnpike towards New York City. We’ve seen our share of spectacular flyover images, but nothing…

Yup, the NYTimes and Twitter Outages Started With Simple Phishing

As we strongly suspected earlier, the hackers that briefly took over the Twitter and New York Times domains yesterday didn’t use brute force or fancy hacks to get in. The LATimes reports that the Syrian Electronic Army used phishing emails to get username and password credentials for several employees Melbourne IT, the registrar for both…

Twitter Redesigns Conversations to Help You Make Sense of the Noise

Twitter is making a big design change to your Twitter feed to help you follow the fragmented conversations buried within. The new look works a bit like connect the dots between @replies. The new change to Twitter.com as well as the service’s iOS and Android apps looks like this: Until now, if you saw a…

NIN’s Hesitation Marks Will Come In an Audio-Nerds-Only Version

Trent Reznor has a treat for audio nerds. When Nine Inch Nails’ new record Hesitation Marks drops next week, it’ll be available in regular and audiophile versions. The two sonic flavors will be mixed differently—One mix for the headphone clutching masses who demand “loudness,” and one mix for the nerds who want to hear every…

The Smithsonian Just Added a Chunk of Code to Its Permanent Collection

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt design museum in New York just acquired the source code to an iPad app called Planetary from its now-defunct developer. Code is officially art now. Planetary, as you can see in the video above, is basically a fancy music visualizer. The app’s source code was donated to the Cooper-Hewitt, which promptly open-sourced…

Parallels Access Transforms Your Desktop Apps into iPad Apps

Parallels Access turns your iPad into a porthole to your more powerful (and heavier) Windows or Mac computers somewhere else. Connecting the your iPad to your remote machine through the cloud is the (relatively) easy part. The real magic is how Parallels Access elegantly shrinks your desktop applications into manageable tablet apps. Remotely accessing a…

Syrian Electronic Army Claims It’s Taken Over Twitter’s Domain (Updated)

The Syrian Electronic Army claims it’s taken over Twitter’s domain registration. Indeed, several public Whois listings show [email protected] as the contact information for Twitter.com, which would seem to indicate the hacker group isn’t bluffing. Many Twitter users say they’re experiencing problems with the service. We’ve reached out to Twitter, and the company responded that they’re…

Sony A3000: The Cheapest Beginner DSLR Ever (Well, Sorta-DSLR)

Sony’s A3000 DLSR is cheap. Super cheap. It costs $400 paired with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens. These days, that’s more or less the price of an advanced point-and-shoot camera from Canon, and it’s considerably cheaper than Sony’s badass RX100 II point-and-shoot. So what gives? And what’s up with DSLRs? https://gizmodo.com/canon-s120-a-tiny-awesome-point-and-shoot-camera-aga-1180052163 Sony is actually introducing…