headermask image

Xbox? More like Xbody: Future game consoles will get under your skin

May 25, 2013 – 8:37 pm
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is getting, all to measure just how scared you are.For 250 lucky — or extremely unlucky — test subjects, fear-based gaming was a reality, at least in an experimental program led by the game studio Valve. If the game could sense that a player ...
    


Yannick LeJacq | Techno News | Comments (0)

Communications satellite launched into space

May 25, 2013 – 7:14 am
The Associated PressCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, w...
    


Science | Techno News | Comments (0)

Mars hit by space rocks 200 times a year

May 25, 2013 – 6:20 am
By SPACE.com staffSmall space rocks are carving fresh craters into the Martian surface more often than previously thought, researchers say. A new study finds that there are more than 200 asteroid impacts on the Red Planet every year.These asteroids and comet fragments are usually no bigger than 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) across — about 10 times smaller than the meteor that exploded over Chely...
    


Science | Techno News | Comments (0)

‘Facebook Phone’ launch canceled in U.K. as Home gets facelift

May 25, 2013 – 5:47 am
Plans to launch the HTC First, aka the "Facebook phone," in the U.K. have been indefinitely delayed and pre-orders refunded, according Facebook and the carrier that was to carry the device exclusively. In the United States, after AT&T dropped the device's price, that seemed like confirmation that sales have been nowhere near what was hoped.The HTC First was announced in April; with bold colors...
    


Devin Coldewey | Techno News | Comments (0)

Stinky feet? Robotic pooch lets you know

May 25, 2013 – 5:47 am
    


feeds/tech+feeds/techvideo | Techno News | Comments (0)

‘Remember Me’ is a beat ‘em up video game for the Facebook generation

May 25, 2013 – 5:47 am
Being perched on the precipice of a new console generation has made video game developers reflect about their own relationship with technology. Ubisoft's new open-world game "Watch_dogs" is at once exceedingly ambitious and cripplingly self-conscious, asking players to live in a world where the tech industry's wildest dreams about interconnected smart devices and augmented reality systems are as u...
    


Yannick LeJacq | Techno News | Comments (0)

Celestial show won’t be back until 2015

May 25, 2013 – 5:47 am
    


feeds/tech+feeds/techvideo | Techno News | Comments (0)

Big earthquakes create global-scale GPS errors

May 25, 2013 – 4:57 am
By Becky Oskin, LiveScienceThirteen years of supersized earthquakes, such as Friday's magnitude-8.3 in Russia, have contaminated GPS sites around the world, a new study finds.The Global Positioning System is a network of satellites and ground stations that provide location information anywhere on Earth. Except for spots in Australia, western Europe and the eastern tip of Canada, every GPS site...
    


Science | Techno News | Comments (0)

Cold-loving bacteria offer clues for life on Mars

May 25, 2013 – 4:57 am
A microbe discovered in the Canadian high Arctic thrives at the coldest temperature known for bacterial growth.Researchers found the newly discovered bacterium, Planococcus halocryophilus OR1, in permafrost — permanently frozen ground — on Ellesmere Island. The organism thrives at 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius), and holds clues to adaptations that might be necessary for life on Ma...
    


Tanya Lewis, LiveScience | Techno News | Comments (0)

How the smartphone killed the three-day weekend

May 25, 2013 – 4:57 am
Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture.It would seem an ideal time to take a break, but our ability to unplug and relax is under assault. A three-day weekend? We can barely get through three waking hours without working, new research shows. The average smartp...
    


Bob Sullivan, Columnist, NBC News | Techno News | Comments (0)