AvatarAbhishek Raiflipped into AlgoAvatarAvatarA Computer Algorithm Can See When You’re Drunkverified_publisherPopular Science - Sarah FechtThe temperature of your nose gives you away Oh, alcohol. It can be so much fun, until it makes you do something stupid. But even without doing anything embarrassing, booze makes us blush. Now it turns out those rosy cheeks can be turned against you. Using infrared cameras, scientists have taught a …
AvatarAbhishek Raiflipped into ReviewsAvatarAvatarMacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013)verified_publisherThe Verge - Nilay PatelApple builds the ultimate coffee shop computer Toby’s Estate Coffee in Brooklyn should be my favorite local coffee shop. The Australian company’s first US location is big and bright, with ample seating, great service, and terrific coffee — the ultra-expensive Strada variable-pressure espresso …
AvatarAbhishek Raiflipped into ReviewsAvatarAvatarGoogle Nexus 7 review (2013)verified_publisherThe Verge - David PierceNine months after the iPad mini, Google proves it's been watching I make a lot of aspirational purchases. I constantly buy books I really ought to read, subscribe to magazines that are so good the one time a year I actually get around to opening them, and add movies like Schindler's List to my Netflix …
AvatarAbhishek Raiflipped into ReviewsAvatarAvatarMoto X reviewverified_publisherThe Verge - Joshua TopolskyA different kind of smartphone It’s difficult and perhaps dangerous to make a big deal out of a smartphone these days. Can one phone change an industry? Save a company? Create a market? Perhaps that was true in the days just following the original iPhone, but times have most certainly changed. …
AvatarAbhishek Raiflipped into ReviewsAvatarAvatarSamsung Galaxy Note 3 reviewverified_publisherThe Verge - Dan SeifertOne more from the company that invented the huge phone Samsung essentially created the market for the in-between smartphone — a device that could ostensibly take the place of both a smartphone and a tablet — with its wildly popular Galaxy Note lineup. (The Korean phone-maker recently boasted that it …
AvatarAbhishek Raiflipped into ReviewsAvatarAvatariPad Air reviewverified_publisherThe Verge - Nilay PatelThe best gets better Let's murder a metaphor. In June of 2010, two months after Apple had shipped the first iPad, Steve Jobs sat on stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D8 conference and compared tablets and PCs to cars and trucks. “PCs are going to be like trucks,” said Jobs. "They’re …
AvatarAbhishek Raiflipped into ReviewsAvatarAvatarNexus 5 reviewverified_publisherThe Verge - Joshua TopolskyThe ultimate Google Phone? In this review of the Nexus 5, I will attempt to answer one simple question: is Google capable of making a flagship, best-in-class smartphone it can sell for $349 off-contract? And I don't just mean a nice, okay, swell, good, decent, better-than-the-last-one phone. I mean …