If Brian May could capture one moment from his life so that others could step inside that moment and experience it, it would be the time he strode onto the roof of Buckingham Palace alone except for his guitar and played to 200 million people. “I’d love people to know what that felt like,” said …
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Double your MacBook’s storage with a tiny card called TarDisk
When the hard drive on your MacBook is getting full, you have a few options: You can purchase an external hard drive and offload low-priority files to it; pick up an inexpensive USB drive; or take on the task or replacing internal storage yourself. Or, there’s TarDisk. TarDisk is a small, SD card-like device that expands the storage of your …
Read More »Google to launch Spaces app for more focused group sharing
Google hopes to make group messaging simpler and more focused with a new app called Spaces, the company announced Monday. Articles, images and videos will be the center of group conversations, called “spaces,” because of the app’s built-in integration to other Google products such as Google Search, YouTube and Chrome. For example, you can invite friends to a space in …
Read More »Only Amazon can open a college bookstore with no books
Amazon@Penn probably doesn’t look like any store you’ve ever visited. The brightly lit space includes no shelves, no standing inventory and no checkout. It’s likely debatable the location is even a “store” at all. Yet this 3,500-square-foot space, which hosted a grand opening Friday at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, serves as another example of Amazon’s evolution, as the …
Read More »Space program’s greatest gift to humanity: Stink
Granted, you could wear any pair of underwear for a week. But things could get pretty gross if you did. But Danish company OrganicBasics is in the process of creating SilverTech “odorless” underwear — and odorless socks — that are infused with bacteria-fighting and heat-regulating silver that the company says is a key ingredient in space suits. The material is …
Read More »Dropbox looks to declutter your hard drive
Dropbox wants to make sure your documents and other files don’t gobble up your hard drive. The online file-sharing service introduced a new feature Tuesday called Project Infinite. The idea behind the service is to make your online files look and feel just like those saved on your hard drive. Instead of storing all your files both locally and in …
Read More »Get back the 10GB of free OneDrive storage Microsoft is taking away
Microsoft giveth, and Microsoft taketh away. Last November, the company announced plans to scrap its unlimited-storage option for OneDrive subscribers and cut free storage to 5GB from the previous 15GB amount. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the latter change will take place in July. Anyone who didn’t opt in to the 10GB camera-roll storage bonus, or who’s new to OneDrive, …
Read More »Get 2GB of Google Drive space for free (again!)
Same as last year, Google is now offering an additional 2GB of Drive storage for users who complete the Account Security Checkup, in honor of Safer Internet Day. This year, you only have until February 11, 2016, to complete the checkup. Right now users can do the same checkup (it’s been spruced up a bit) and receive 2GB of space …
Read More »Imax movies headed for 4K Blu
This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Journey to Space LLC Media company Shout Factory is the the latest entity to detail new 4K Blu-ray discs for 2016, including Imax features such as “Journey to Space,” narrated by Patrick Stewart. …
Read More »How to free up space in iCloud
Now playing: Watch this: Free up space in iCloud 2:10 Apple’s iCloud storage service can be used to stash away photos, videos, device backups, and more in the cloud. The company offers users 5GB of space for free, however because it’s 5GB of space per Apple ID and not per device, you may find yourself running out of space faster …
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