NASA announced a few days ago that astronauts on the International Space Station will for the first time get a taste of lettuce that wasn’t grown on Earth. The Expedition 44 crew this week will eat fresh red romaine lettuce that was grown on the ISS.
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Smugglers have a storied history when it comes to crafting clever and ingenious ways to conceal drugs and sneak them across ostensibly secure borders. Back in the early ’90s, cartels out of Columbia were the first to add a layer of technical sophistication to their drug smuggling activities when they began manufacturing small submarines designed to transport cocaine across International waters while avoiding detection. Since then, the technical capabilities of what are often referred to as narco-submarines have only increased. Some rigs have elaborate communications systems built-in and can sometimes cost upwards of $1 million to construct.
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Microsoft has been making some killer Android apps lately and now it seems the company has come up with another way to have its software replace standard Google apps on Android phones.
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Have you ever wanted to turn your home entertainment setup all the way up to 10? Well now you can do so for a bargain-bin price as long as you’re an Amazon Prime member. You can grab a Vizio 40-Inch 5.1 Channel Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer and Satellite Speakers for just $218 dollars, down from the list price of $349.
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OK, so let’s say you want to prevent people from seeing pictures on your iPhone. How do you go about doing it? The simplest way to hide pics from prying eyes is to store them on a PC or hard drive. But that isn’t always convenient and – worst of all – implies removing them from the handset, which means you won’t be able to see them either. Thankfully, however, there are other ways of hiding your pics without removing them from your phone.
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Google does some… strange things. However, the company’s announcement on Monday that it will essentially be renaming itself “Alphabet” might be the weirdest one yet. There will still be a Google, of course, it’s just that Google will be only one company under the main Alphabet umbrella.
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Apple surprised iPad fans last year by releasing a new iPad mini model that was barely an upgrade from the iPad mini 2. The iPad Air 2 received a major overhaul and became even thinner than ever, while the iPad mini 3 got a new paint job and a fingerprint sensor… and that’s literally it. That might change this year, and purported 3D CAD images of the iPad mini 4 seem to indicate the tablet will be as thin as the iPad Air 2.
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The iPhone 6s will likely be a more refined version of last year’s iPhone 6 but that doesn’t mean it will be totally bereft of new features. The device’s most important new feature will be the addition of the Force Touch technology that Apple is already using for both the Apple Watch and its 2015 MacBook. But what will Force Touch bring to the table for iPhone users? A new report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman explains it to us in great detail.
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For some Windows 10 users, guarding their privacy and preventing Microsoft from collecting personal data might take precedent over using certain Windows 10 features. There are plenty of settings to customize in order to prevent or limit Microsoft’s tracking, and many users have advised against creating a Microsoft account when prompted to make one.
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Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was a brilliant person… but he was also, by many accounts, a total nightmare to have as a boxx. If you want to get a sense of just how obnoxious Jobs could be to employees, consider the following anecdote shared by The New York Times’ Nick Bilton in which Jobs dressed down a waitress for failing to bring him the perfect glass of orange juice.
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