Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab

Edit Slashdot 08 Jul 2016
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget. The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. regulators have devised to ban the owners and operators of Theranos from running a lab for two years ... Elizabeth Holmes wrote ... Read more of this story at Slashdot. ....

Wirecutter's best deals: Save $100 on a Vizio M-Series LED TV

Edit Engadget 07 Jul 2016
This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer's guide to the best technology. Read their continuously updated list of deals at TheWirecutter.com. You may have already seen Engadget posting reviews from our friends at The Wirecutter.... ....

Smartphones Lift Samsung To Best Profit In Over Two Years

Edit Slashdot 07 Jul 2016
Samsung said on Thursday that its second-quarter operating profit likely rose 17.4% from a year earlier. The figure marks the highest for Samsung in more than 2 years ... Engadget reports ... Read more of this story at Slashdot. ....

Verizon data plans going up in price this week (reports)

Edit Syracuse 06 Jul 2016
A month after the "Can you hear me now?" guy switched to Sprint, his former employer is launching a slew of changes. Verizon will roll out more expensive new wireless plans this week, according to CNET, with prices going up for each data plan -- but more data will be offered, among other changes. Engadget reports customers will see their bills increase $5 to $10 for 1GB to 6GB more data. New "S" plan ... 1 spot ... ....

How teachers will benefit from Amazon Inspire: The new online education resources platform

Edit The Oklahoman 06 Jul 2016
This week, Amazon announced the release of a new online education platform, Amazon Inspire ... Engadget, a technology blog network with daily coverage of consumer electronics, noted if a teacher creates useful teaching material, "it's just a matter of uploading it and giving it the right tags — classrooms around the country can then find it when they need to bolster their curriculum." ... ....

Navy grants $750,000 to develop bomb-sniffing, ‘tattooed’ locusts

Edit The Miami Herald 06 Jul 2016
Locusts came to fame as agents of destruction during the eighth plague of Egypt in the Bible, but some researchers envision a new occupation for the humble insects. cyborg bomb detectors. Yes, you read that correctly ... Fellow Washington University professor Srikanth Singamaneni, whose focus is materials science, will be working to create a “tattoo” made from biocompatible silk that could convert light into heat, according to Engadget ... ....

Navy grants $750,000 to develop bomb-sniffing locusts

Edit Stars and Stripes 06 Jul 2016
Locusts came to fame as agents of destruction during the eighth plague of Egypt in the Bible, but some researchers envision a new occupation for the humble insects. cyborg bomb detectors ... Fellow Washington University professor Srikanth Singamaneni, whose focus is materials science, will be working to create a "tattoo" made from biocompatible silk that could convert light into heat, according to Engadget ...  . ....

Two years in, USB Type-C still isn't up to snuff

Edit TechRadar 06 Jul 2016
Introduction. Look around you. Even with the advent of the cloud and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi replacing cables nothing beats a good old Universal Serial Bus port – or simply USB ... FireWire) ... USB-IF CEO Jeff Ravenscraft went as far as to tell Digital Trends that users aren't equipped to do so despite Engadget reporting that Leung had a USB multimeter to monitor wattage while performing his tests.Apple incites a riot ... Making up for lost time ... ....

Lenovo laptops hit by (another) gaping security vulnerability

Edit TechRadar 05 Jul 2016
Lenovo PCs have another critical vulnerability potentially exposing users to all manner of nastiness, and this flaw apparently isn't limited to Lenovo machines, either ... As Engadget reports, Lenovo is now apparently investigating the issue and cooking up a fix, with the manufacturer posting an advisory which called the BIOS vulnerability an "industry-wide" issue – so we could still see further fallout from this. Lenovo stated....

Walmart now lets customers pay with its app at many stores across the US

Edit The Verge 03 Jul 2016
As�Engadget first reported, the service has just expanded to more than 30 states just in the past two months, including New York and California as of ......

#ICYMI: Popular Stories in Tech This Week (Week of June 27) (Flipboard Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jul 2016
(Source. Flipboard Inc). Jessica Elsey / July 1, 2016. A man is silhouetted against a video screen with an Facebook logo as he poses with an Samsung S4 smartphone in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, August 14, 2013. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo ... Google also made headlinesfor its $300 million undersea internet cable ... 1 ... Top line ... Airbnb files suit against San Francisco over rental laws-Engadget, Timothy J....

Wirecutter's best deals: Get a UE Roll Bluetooth speaker for $50

Edit Engadget 30 Jun 2016
This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer's guide to the best technology. Read their continuously updated list of deals at TheWirecutter.com. You may have already seen Engadget posting reviews from our friends at The Wirecutter.... ....

I'm terrible with technology

Edit The Verge 30 Jun 2016
True story. back when I worked for Engadget it was always my dream to cover a Steve Jobs keynote ... I was capable ... ....
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