Mario Aguilar

Please Don’t Ruin Instagram With Crappy Videos

An Instagram photo carries a certain artificial heft to it. There’s a sense of importance, or at least permanence, to the photos we post to these accounts that you don’t get from tweets or even status updates on Facebook. Instagram isn’t naturally this way; it’s developed this weight because everything on Instagram is beautiful. And…

Facebook Accidentally Exposed Contact Info for Six Million Users

According to a post on Facebook’s security blog, a bug in the company’s friend recommendation system exposed the contact information of some six million users to others. The bug has been present for about a year, but the company only found out about it in the last 24 hours. The affected users will be notified…

It looks like Aol will be the latest company to toss its hat in as a possible replacement for for Google Reader.Some crafty Internet sleuths have discovered a login page for a private beta for Aol Reader, just a week before Mountain View is set to pull the plug on its beloved client. Do you…

Digg Reader Hands-On: Your Google Reader Life Raft Is Here

Here’s the good news: Digg Reader is a real thing in the world that exists, and at the very latest, you’ll have access to it by next Wednesday, June 26th. I just landed at an early invite page for the service, and with a click, imported my 500 or so feeds from Google Reader in…

Samsung Galaxy NX Hands-On: I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Should I?)

The first thing that strikes you about Samsung’s new Android-powered interchangeable-lens camera is how big that 4.8-inch AMOLED screen looks on the back of a camera. Even when it’s turned off, the blackness stares back at you like an enrapturing abyss. Then, when you flip the camera on, the TouchWiz Android UI is right there…

Samsung Book 9 Plus Is the Latest Dope Ultrabook

At its event in London, Samsung added two new laptops to its lineup: The Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus and the Samsung Ativ Book 9 Lite. The current ATIV Book 9 (formerly the Series 9), is basically an improved keyboard away from being the best ultrabook. So we’re looking forward to see where Samsung would…

Samsung’s Galaxy NX Is Loaded: Big Sensor, Lenses, Android UI and LTE

If last year’s Samsung Galaxy Camera looked like Dr. Frankenstein had sewn a point-and-shoot camera onto the back of a Galaxy S3, the new Galaxy NX is the opposite. It takes the Android UI 3G/4G/LTE connectivity of a smartphone, and slaps it onto the back of an interchangeable-lens camera. As we learned from last year’s…

Space Food Sucks: NASA’s Quest to Serve Astronauts Four Star Meals

If you’ve ever eaten the dehydrated “space food” sold in novelty shops, you probably thought, “Oh hey, not bad!” Now imagine eating the same thing for years on end. Yup, it would get boring. The New Yorker has a lovely story on Nasa’s quest to battle the “menu fatigue” that astronauts develop after they’ve been…

WSJ: Facebook Will Announce Ambiguous Vine-Like Video Sharing Today

The WSJ is the latest publication to report unnamed sources claiming that today’s Facebook announcement will be all about video sharing. Now it looks like the service will be separate from Instagram? Or is that an omission? According to “sources with knowledge” Facebook will announce “pieces” of a “Vine-like video service”. The main difference between…

Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new “social” way to give somebody a present on Facebook. Basically, you kick in some money for an Amazon gift card and then encourage all your friends to contribute. On your friend’s date of birth, the card arrives along with all your personalized messages. Sooo either this is a genius…

According to an unnamed TechCrunch source, Facebook is getting ready to launch video sharing on Instagram at the end of the month. The announcement could come at this Thursday’s Facebook press event so get your fun compounds and portmanteau’s ready. InstaVine? Snapstagram? MyFaceTube?

Airbus A350 XWB First Flight Video: The Dreamliner’s Nightmare Is Real

What you’re looking at here is history; the triumph of seven years of design and engineering. Today, the Airbus A350 XWB completed its first flight. Here’s the video of the mammoth taking to the skies: Far from just another tin tank, the A350 is a carbon fiber miracle. It’s frame is made from 53-percent composite…

Remember Paul Vo? He’s the genius who invented a little black box that makes acoustic guitars sound otherworldly by changing the physics of how strings vibrate? Well his Kickstarter succeeded, and 100 units of the Vo-96 Acoustic Synthesizer are on sale now.

The Surest Sign Yet That Apple TV Will Be a Gaming Console

This week, Apple released its first-ever instructions for designing and developing a game controller for use with Apple products. The evidence suggests that Apple is gearing up take gaming beyond the confines of its products. It’s going to condone console-style game development. And today’s game controller for iOS 7 could mean that tomorrow’s Apple TV…

Samsung CEO: ‘Our Next Mirrorless Cameras Will Run Android’

Korea Times published a quote from Samsung CEO Shin Jong-kyun, indicating that at the company’s press event in London next week, Samsung will introduce a new mirrorless camera running Android. If that means what we think it means, the new product could be a formidable shooter. Powering one of Samsung’s excellent, large-sensor NX series mirrorless…

Pentax’s Q7 Interchangeable-Lens Camera Is Tiny Like a Point-and-Shoot

When you first see Pentax’s new Q7 interchangeable-lens camera, you think your brain is playing tricks on you. How can it be so small? This must be a replica. But then you hold it in your hand and squee with delight because it’s so maddeningly adorable. The Q7 is the follow-up to last year’s Q10.…

ESPN Is Killing 3D Broadcasts By the End of the Year

ESPN will kill ESPN 3D by the end of the year. The ill-fated 3D sports channel that started as an experiment in 2010 won’t be broadcast in any dimensions soon. This is huge news considering the significant investment that TV manufacturers and broadcasters have put forth in an effort to bolster the struggling tech. We…

New Image Sensor Tech Captures Better Photos By Ditching Silicon

Basically every digital image sensor out there relies on silicon photodiodes to capture light. Jointly developed by researchers at Panasonic and Fujifilm, a new image sensor technology uses an organic layer instead—and early tests results of the technology blow the status quo away. The new organic CMOS image sensor technology is currently being presented by…

Google to Government: ‘Let Us Publish National Security Data Requests’

Google has asked Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of the FBI Robert Mueller to allow the company to publish data about the secret national security requests it has received from the government. Google says the data will help clear it of the reports which surfaced last week alleging the company has granted the government…

What About Apple TV?

Yesterday, Apple put on one heck of a show. We got a snazzy new version of iOS 7, one big wave of an OS X update, and even a preview of the next Mac Pros. But where was all the news about Apple TV? Apple is seemingly ignoring the enormous potential of its set-top-box. https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-2013-roundup-all-the-new-toys-apple-announced-tod-512401795…