GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	Twitter Files for IPO
	Twitter is going to go public, the company revealed on Thursday. They tweeted the announcement on Thursday afternoon.The company is now valued at around $11 billion according to estimates and they were able to file confidentially thanks to the JOB...
	Facebook Is Testing Video Auto Play In Mobile News Feeds
	Facebook will start testing a new mobile feature that plays videos automatically as users scroll through their News Feeds. The videos will play as they come into view on the screen and users can preview them without clicking or opening them. The vid...
	Apple's Touch ID Will Still Require A Numeric Passcode
	How does Apple's new fingerprint scanner work? While you can unlock your phone with your fingerprint, you'll still need to create a traditional passcode for your phone in order to use it. A Wall Street Journal report on Thursday revealed that if you...
	Up Style Travel: Man Wants To Cross the Atlantic Using Only Balloons (Video)
	Is it possible to create the UP! effect and travel around the world via balloons? Jonathan Trappe is going to try it. The 39 year old IT manager is trusting them with his life as he attempts to become the first person to cross the Atlantic using on...
	Passage: Ray Dolby
	Dolby Laboratories founder Ray Dolby has passed at the age of 80. He's the man responsible for awesome sound in movies. His technology is used in basically every cinema you go to . Born in Portland, Oregon, 1944, he earned a BA in engineering in Sta...
	From MIT: Robots Learn To Realize Their Errors, And Then Ask For Help (Video)
	The researchers at MIT have now taught robots how to ask for human help. Soon they'll be asking other robots for help. And soon we'll be fighting the robots.But before that, the team at MIT taught a pack of KUKA's youBots to realize when they've fa...
	Apple Wants To Make An iPhone That Is Virtually Unbreakable
	Apple's latest phone may have some really tough to crack security. Now they want to make the phone itself tough to crack.According to a patent published a couple days after Tuesday's iPhone event, they might be thinking on how to make indestructible...
	Microsoft's Siri Competitor Is Based on Cortana, The AI Character From Halo (Video)
	Microsoft now owns Nokia. So they'll need to hop on the bandwagon and get themselves a mobile personal assistant. Like a Siri. The feature will tie together all of Microsoft's products and it will be named Cortana after the artificially intelligen...
	Google+ Has a Photo Editor Now (But You've Got To Use Chrome)
	Here's a pretty cool feature: Google+ has a photo editor, but only if you use Chrome in its Auto Awesome feature. There are now sliders for brightness, contrast, and saturation as well as highlight and midtone contrast controls. There are also a ra...
	Once Again, No NFC. So What Is Apple's iBeacon?
	NFC was a miss in the new iPhones, but Apple has bigger plans for low power radio wave based mobile payment technology. But while NFC is clearly not present, there's iBeacon. It was a tiny detail on a slide Apple showed about iOS 7 during its WW...

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