Innovation - Page 263

October 22, 2015

Hungry? Google it to get delivery

You’re a busy person. Google gets that. Who has time to search for the best meal in town, investigate a restaurant’s website and travel to a totally different page to place a takeout or delivery order? Not you, that’s whom. Now, when a restaurant shows up in Google’s search results on your phone, you can place an order with one of six different restaurant middlemen right away.

October 22, 2015

NYPD spends $1.5 million on electronic ears to listen for gunshots

Cops in New York City have started testing a system that shows them almost instantly the location of where a gun was fired to within 82 feet.

October 22, 2015

As the Apple Watch ticks closer, experts await a fatal flop

A flop. A failure. A fiasco. Concerns and skepticism are growing towards the Apple Watch, which experts believe Tim Cook and Co. will reveal Monday during a special event in San Francisco.

October 22, 2015

Ford’s e-bike knows when you’re tired of pedaling, takes over

Big companies love acronyms, and Ford is no exception.

October 22, 2015

Watch out, Apple! Samsung Pay will add credit card swiping to the Galaxy S6

Mobile payments are really heating up in 2015.

October 22, 2015

Where's all your money going? Using data-crunching apps can help keep finances on track

Joshua Levinson was about to splurge on some exercise equipment, but a personal finance app on his smartphone gave him a friendly reminder: He'd just recently dropped $150 for Valentine's Day.

October 22, 2015

Cisco predicts half a billion wearables will hit the streets by 2019

Wearables may be a niche product now, but all that’s about to change, predicts

October 22, 2015

Qantas to offer passengers Gear VR headsets as part of in-flight entertainment

Clearly eager to mark itself out from the competition when it comes to in-flight entertainment, Qantas is lining up to supply its passengers with Samsung’s Gear VR headset for a bit of 360-degree long-haul awesomeness.

October 22, 2015

Hacker 'reconstructs' German politician's fingerprint from photos

Fingerprint-based biometric technology is used to secure everything from iPhones to safes. Now, a member of the Chaos Computer Club, a European hacker network, claims to have replicated the fingerprint of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen using photographs of the politician's thumb,

October 22, 2015

Tech the halls with 5 geeky holiday decorations

Forget decking your halls with boughs of holly. Instead, give your inner tech geek a gift by decorating your home or workspace with the things you really love like old floppy disk drives and circuit boards.