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PS4 update arrives tomorrow and will introduce verified accounts

Mar25
by on March 25, 2015 at 1:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Updates

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Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 software update 2.50 (aka Yukimura), will be arriving tomorrow morning. It’s a major update, with new features including verified accounts for games industry professionals and a new Suspend and Resume mode that allows you to put your PS4 in rest mode without losing where you left off. Yukimura will also enable you to back-up your hard disk to an external drive and restore it from there. That should mean your settings, data, video clips, screenshots, games and updates are more secure. Hooking up with other gamers is also getting easier. The new ‘Friends Who Play…

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How copper is saving people’s lives in hospitals

Mar25
by on March 25, 2015 at 1:09 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, copper, health, hospitals, Insider

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Robert J. Szczerba is the CEO of X Tech Ventures, an innovative company focused on solving some of today’s most challenging problems through the integration of technologies from multiple, diverse domains. This post originally appeared on Forbes. “I never go to hospitals, that’s where all the sick people are.” It’s an old joke, but, unfortunately, it has elements of truth.  Hospitals are indeed dangerous places, and the emerging statistics on hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are more dire than ever. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), about 1 in every 25 inpatients has an infection related to hospital care. Each year, at…

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Fantastical 2 for Mac launches as the calendar app of choice for power users

Mar25
by on March 25, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Flexibits has today launched a new version of its popular Fantastical calendar app for OS X. “When we designed the original Fantastical for Mac almost four years ago, the real goal was to fix (Apple’s own calendar app at the time) iCal – it was hard to add events, really time-consuming, it wasn’t fun. With Fantastical 2, we view it as fixing Fantastical itself,” Flexibits’ cofounder Michael Simmons tells us. The new version has been designed with OS X Yosemite in mind, and indeed you’ll need the current version of Apple’s desktop OS to run Fantastical 2 at all. That restriction…

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Win Apple’s gorgeous new MacBook

Mar25
by on March 25, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

Apple is known for setting the latest trends in product design, and it’s really pushed the boundaries with the all-new MacBook. Only 13.1mm thick and weighing just 2 lb, it’s the lightest Mac notebook ever built. What can you look forward to in the most beautiful laptop of 2015? A gorgeous 12-inch 2304 x 1550 retina display, the revolutionary Force Touch trackpad, nine hours of battery life, a comfortable full-size keyboard and the convenient USB-C connector for display, power and peripherals. Meticulously crafted and available in gold, space gray or silver finishes, the new MacBook is a stunner from every…

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Facebook tests showing you more auto-playing videos after the one you’re watching ends

Mar25
by on March 25, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Facebook is testing a new feature that allows it to autoplay videos related to whatever you’re watching once the first one ends, according to Recode. While it has already been autoplaying videos in your Feed for sometime now, and has been offering related video suggestions since Q3 2014, this is the first autoplaying of titles that we’ve come across in this way on the social network. According to the report, the feature currently only works for some users accessing the service via iOS and Android devices. Of course, there’s no guarantee that the feature will ever be offered more widely,…

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