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Philips Hue Brings Its Light Syncing Tech to Samsung TVs

All it requires is a pricey app you can download later this week.

Ford Hopes People Will Download an App to Avoid Being Hit by Its Cars

The company is researching a new bluetooth phone application that would warn drivers of even out-of-sight cyclists and pedestrians in a vehicle's way.

For Some X-Men, Death Still Matters

In the penultimate issue of Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia’s House of X, Charles Xavier’s grand plan to ensure that no X-Men ever truly die again is revealed. In the months since then, the concept of death has become something different for the world’s population of mutants. People carrying x-genes still face danger…

Google Chrome Is Now Quietly Forcing You to Log In—Here’s What to Do About It 

Once again, Google has rankled privacy-focused people with a product change that appears to limit users’ options. It’s easy to miss the fact that you’re automatically being logged-in to Chrome if you’re not paying attention. Chrome 69 released to users on September 5, and you likely noticed that it has a different look. But if…

Make Sure All Your OneDrive Files are Synced for Offline Access

OneDrive for Windows 8.1 shows you all the files in your locker—but they’re not necessarily all stored locally on your machine. If you want to make sure they are all synced and available the next time your Wi-Fi connection disappears, here’s how to do it. Any file you create on your PC itself is stored…

In This Short, A Security Robot Becomes The Ultimate Cyberterrorist

In the future, one company deals with the problem of data theft by inventing robotic couriers that will deliver their data packages no matter what gets in their way. But what happens when one of those packages contains a weaponized program? Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull (who also directed Project Kronos) wrote and directed SYNC, an imagining…

You Can Order Domino’s Pizza From a Car App Because the Future Is Absurd

Thanks to Ford and Domino’s unholy union of utility, gluttony, and good old fashioned American engineering, your next car could come with a built-in pizza ordering app. Are those tears running down Lady Libety’s face you see? Nope—just meat sweats. The collaboration comes as part of the newest set of additions to Ford’s SYNC AppLink…

BitTorrent’s personal cloud service, Sync, just moved into beta today. And now, it even has its own Android app. If you need some online space the NSA can’t get at, go check it out. It’s free!

Set Up Your Own Personal Storage Cloud With BitTorrent Sync

One of BitTorrent’s latest little tricks, a sorta-kinda-but-not-really cloud storage service, just grew up into a real app today. BitTorrent Sync and all of its shared folder goodness just launched into Alpha today, and you can go check it out for yourself. https://gizmodo.com/bittorrents-new-cloud-service-could-out-mega-mega-5978944 Though not a cloud service, BitTorrent’s Sync aims to provide you with…

Facebook Testing Automatic Photo Sync for Android

Facebook is testing a new photo sync system which automatically uploads photos taken on Android handsets to the web. If that sounds familiar, that’s because it is: Google+ already features an instant photo-upload feature which uploads all your shots to the cloud. Like Google’s system, Facebook’s new feature ensures your pictures remain private, placing them…

iCloud Floats a New Feature Set

Apple unveiled the latest iCloud iteration at today’s WWDC, beefing up the the fledgling service with a bevy of new features. Here’s what’s new. The Notes, Reminders, and Documents will be available on Mountain Lion through iCloud. Notes and Reminders, already mainstays on Apple iOS devices, will make the jump to the desktop while the…

50 Cent Will Make Dr. Dre Proud with These Headphones

It’s been ages since I’ve mentioned Dre and 50 Cent in the same breath, but 50’s new SYNC headphones remind me that he was once one of his proteges. These cans are pretty much his answer to the Beats by Dre headphones. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-dr-dre-and-monster-headphones-vs-a-5033864 That may not be a bad thing; they just look like black…

Offline Gmail, Google Calendar and Docs? Um, Yes Please!

Gmail. Damn near everyone you know uses it, and now they (and you) can use it offline. Sound the trumpets! And if that’s not enough, offline Google Calendar and Docs will be rolling out within the week. This pleases me. Offline Gmail has launched as a Google Web Store app for your Chrome browser. If…

Only 50% iPhones Have Been Synced At Least Once

This is a crazy figure: 50% of the iPhones brought to Genius bars have never been connected to a computer. Ever. I don’t know about you, but I can’t understand how people can live without synching between devices or backing up. Since the Genius bar is what most people use to service their iPhones, I’m…

Your Mac Outlook Calendar Will Sync With iOS Soon

For those of you with enough of a schedule and social life to necessitate a calendar—you lucky jerks—good news ahead: Outlook for Mac will be able to sync calendars, notes, and tasks with iOS with the release of Office for Mac 2011 SP1 next week. Calendars and tasks won’t, though, sync with MobileMe because of…

PhotoSync for iPhone and iPad

How do you get your awesome iPhone pictures onto your computer? Plug it in? No! That’s beyond annoying. Instead, use PhotoSync for iPhone and iPad. It wirelessly transfers photos to and fro your iOS device and computer. No cables allowed. What is it? PhotoSync, $2, iPhone and iPad. It’s genius, really. It’s an app that…

It’s Time to Install Some Apps On Your Toyota

Toyota is joining the in-car computer adventure with “Entune,” their own take on the apps and smartphone integration game a la Ford Sync. The first apps look solid, but will they be the first to allow user-installed apps? The first set of apps look like pretty standard (if welcome) fare: Pandora, Bing search, MoveTickets.com. There’s…

Using Wi-Fi, Your Ford Could Soon be as Customizable as Your Phone

By loading software onto its vehicles through Wi-Fi, Ford expects to save millions. But this technology could be used to provide drivers the option of handpicking their car’s features, much like apps do for smartphones. Wi-Fi was first introduced in Ford vehicles with SYNC, its voice activated system that turns your car into a roving…

Google May Soon Start Telling You When To Go Shopping, And What To Buy

Speaking about one possible future of Google integration, company fellow Amit Singhal outlined a frankly terrifying vision—where Google scans our to-do lists, automatically searches for outstanding tasks and tells us when and how to complete them… Here’s Singhal’s amazing description of a future in which Google takes over many of our high-level cognitive brain functions:…

Ford Sync Gets 100x More Voice Commands

The first generation of Ford’s voice-activated car control system, Sync, recognized some 100 commands. The new version, beefed up with tech from voice-recognition company Nuance, recognizes over 10,000. Basically, your new Ford just became a way better listener. The improved voice recognition comes as part of the new MyFord Touch system, which will be available…