Australian scientists say they have developed the world’s first WHO-approved “gluten-free” barley, a breakthrough for global beer manufacturers which have had to use alternatives to barley such as rice and sorghum to brew gluten-free beer. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) said on Friday it had sold 70 ... Read More »
The Zaatari camp in northern Jordan opened in 2012 as a temporary refuge of tents for Syrians fleeing the civil war. Today, this camp alone is home to nearly 80,000 people. The tiny kingdom with a population of 8 million struggles to cope with its 2 million migrants. Zaatari camp, ... Read More »
If you’re the kind of person who really likes chatting with the mail carrier, Dispatch won’t be your favorite startup. That’s because the four-person South San Francisco company is working on technology that could replace postal workers, Instacart couriers, UPS and FedEx drivers, or anyone else who gets paid to ... Read More »
Dennis Fong knows firsthand that having the inside track on how to play a game makes the difference between winning and losing. Fong, 39, started playing video games when he was a teenager and got so good he was named the world’s first official professional gamer by the Guinness Book ... Read More »
Cord cutters are getting more choices these days. Twitter and Yahoo want to become your online sports bar by offering live sports games for free. Watch CNET Update below to learn about Twitter’s deal with the NFL and Yahoo’s deal with MLB. Seems Roku has good timing with the arrival ... Read More »
Facebook wants to get us to start oversharing on video, too. The social-network’s Live video feature, which lets folks broadcast live from their smartphones, got a handful of new tools, including more “reaction” buttons, such as Love and Wow, as well as filters like sepia tone. Facebook needs to keep ... Read More »
A Washington Post Magazine story about children accidentally left in cars has haunted me for years. The story, called “Fatal Distraction” and published in 2009, centered on the horrifying mistake that can lead to a child’s death. What’s more confounding is that this is a relatively new problem. It goes ... Read More »
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump disagree on plenty, but there’s one thing the presidential contenders concur on: Apple should be making devices in the US. “I do wish they’d be manufacturing some of their devices, here in the United States rather than in China,” Democratic presidential hopeful Sanders said ... Read More »
With Gear VR, Samsung was one of the first companies to get its foot in the virtual reality door. Now, it looks like the South Korean electronics giant is experimenting with augmented reality. Samsung has received a patent for “smart” contact lenses, which it originally filed in September 2014. The ... Read More »
The content of the app, in the Pashto language, included official statements and videos from the Afghan movement. The hardline group blamed “technical issues” for its disappearance shortly after it launched on 1 April. However the BBC understands it was taken down because it violated a Google app policy which ... Read More »
“Revenge porn” broadly describes the act of publishing explicit images of someone without their consent. The MPAA said the Minnesota draft law could restrict the publication of “items of legitimate news, commentary, and historical interest”. But supporters of the proposal said its reach was “plainly legitimate”. Revenge porn commonly refers ... Read More »
The first headsets were due to have arrived with customers on 28 March, but many are still waiting. The firm has blamed an “unexpected component shortage” and says customers should receive updated news on their orders by 12 April. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said he had no further information to ... Read More »
