Garmin’s new GPS running watch tracks heart rate, knows how hard you try

 Navigation system turned wearable manufacturer Garmin debuted a new running watch today that packs in a slew of tracking tools. The high-end Forerunner 735XT features built-GPS tracking, along with built-in heart-rate monitoring, the latter of which presents a number of available analytics, including the user’s “Suffer Score.” Strava Live, the company behind that last bit… […]

This man is on a mission to help feed homeless people in Scotland

LONDON — A 24-year-old man from Edinburgh in Scotland is launching a campaign to try and feed as many homeless people as possible. Last Friday, fast-food worker Robert Aitken bought 60 burgers and went out onto the streets of Edinburgh to give them to the people he found sleeping rough. SEE ALSO: 7 unique challenges […]

German iPad point of sale startup Orderbird closes $20M Series C

 Timing is everything, right? Just a few days after recovering from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, orderbird, which claims to be the leading iPad point of sale (POS) solution in German speaking markets, is announcing that it’s closed €20 million in Series C funding. Read More from TechCrunch http://ift.tt/1T4jOifFiled under: U Tagged: TechCrunch

Frolicking in the park with pre-fame Audrey Hepburn

Image: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images In the spring of 1950, Audrey Hepburn was an unknown 21-year-old chorus girl appearing in musical theatre revues in London’s West End. Here, Picture Post photographer Bert Hardy uses her as a model, frolicking in London’s Kew Gardens for a seasonal feature entitled “We Take A Girl To Look For […]

Avocado spread is a thing, but it’s not as delicious as it sounds

LONDON — Brits love an avocado. So much so, that people in the U are now buying more avocados than oranges. But, just when you thought Britain’s passion for the avocado couldn’t get any more ardent, one store just launched avocado spread. Alas, Tesco’s avocado spread isn’t akin to almond butter, or peanut butter. It’s […]

Apple granted a patent that places second screen on iPad cover

Despite its name, the iPad Smart Cover is not particularly smart; it folds well and wakes your iPad from sleep, but that’s about it.  Judging by a patent recently granted to the company by the U.S. Patent Office, dug out by Patently Apple, the Smart Cover might become a lot smarter in the future.  SEE […]

World’s first 24-hour Hello Kitty cafe opens at Singapore Changi Airport

SINGAPORE — You’ll now want to get to the airport super early just so you can dine at the brand new Hello Kitty themed cafe with the world’s most famous feline. The doors to the world’s first 24-hour Hello Kitty cafe — located at the arrival hall in Changi Airport’s Terminal 3 — open to […]

British police blur sheep’s faces on Facebook to ‘protect’ their identity

LONDON — Seeing a picture of someone with their face blurred on TV or social media isn’t exactly uncommon — but it’s not often such identity protecting measures are extended to our woolly, four legged friends. SEE ALSO: Noisy goat tricks police helicopter into answering its distress call In a recent post on social media, […]

Elderly man keeps almost 200 rats as pets, infuriating neighbours

Imagine yourself in a pet-hoarders situation, only worse because instead of hoarding cats or dogs, your neighbour has almost 200 rats as pets. This is the case for the neighbours of a 72-year-old Chinese man from Chongqing, China, who goes by the surname Zhou. A retired chemical plant worker, Zhou is keeper to 170 rodents […]

Drayson Technologies raises £8M for RF energy harvesting tech aimed at IoT devices and wearables

 There’s no such thing as a free lunch or free energy, right? Not necessarily. Drayson Technologies, the London startup founded by Lord Paul Drayson, a very successful serial entrepreneur and former U.K. government science minister, is commercialising technology that harvests energy from radio frequency (RF) signals to potentially power a range of low-consumption devices. These […]

Meet the 20-year-old girl who may be India’s youngest pilot

This June, three women will make history by becoming the country’s first female fighter pilots. In Mumbai, 20-year-old Ayesha Aziz has also broken a glass ceiling in the profession by becoming one of the youngest pilots in India. See also: These three women will become India’s first female fighter pilots in June Driven by her […]

Guangzhou hit by massive floods, but life still goes on

Despite days of continuous heavy rainfall and violent thunderstorms, which left roads and subway stations in Guangzhou, China, knee-deep in water, life still goes on for the locals. SEE ALSO: 35 tons of dead fish suddenly wash up in a lake in China Pictures of the flood showed traffic being brought to a standstill, but […]

Queen calls Chinese officials ‘very rude’ in conversation caught on camera

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has been caught in an unguarded moment on camera, describing the behaviour of Chinese officials as “very rude” while president Xi Jinping was on his first state visit to Britain last year.  The comments were made in a conversation with Metropolitan police Commander Lucy D’Orsi during a garden party at […]

Window falls 76 floors from Shanghai Tower, injures Tesla driver

Mere weeks into its much-anticipated soft opening, China’s tallest building, the Shanghai Tower has had its first freak accident. On Monday, a glass window pane weighing a whopping 200kg fell from the 76th floor of the 632-metre skyscraper and nearly hit a Tesla parked below on Dongtai Road. SEE ALSO: Shanghai Tower looks like giant […]

I’ve built a metronome with BBC’s micro:bit and British school kids can too

The BBC has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11 and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming.  Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March; I’ve spent some time with it to see how well it works and what you can do with it.  SEE […]

Titanium Art / The colorful process of anodization

When Morgen and I got married, most of our wedding guests came up to us and said things like “Congratulations!” or “Enjoy your honeymoon!” One of our friends, however, on seeing our titanium wedding bands, cautioned us gravely, “Avoid electrified salt solutions.” That’s one of the strangest things anyone has ever said to me. Not […]

WhatsApp launched a native desktop app for Mac and Windows

While plenty of WhatsApp fans were already chatting over the platform’s web browser option, the rest of us can now join them on the desktop. On Tuesday, WhatsApp launched its first-ever native desktop app — a simple step that makes sharing emoji with your friends a lot easier to hide from your boss behind a dozen […]

Naspers Plants a Flag in U.S., with New Venture Group

 Naspers, the 101-year-old, internet and entertainment group, is finally planting a flag in the U.S., establishing a Naspers Ventures unit that will operate largely out of San Francisco. The 30,000-person company, which is based in Cape Town, South Africa and tends to focus on less developed markets, including Latin America, Africa, India and even Russia, […]

Pod of whales hunts down shark in Australian waters, because nature

You wouldn’t expect a shark, of all creatures, to get a taste of its own medicine. It’s hard to tell from this bird’s eye view, but in an Alien vs. Predator-type scenario, it looks like a pod of false killer whales has hunted down a small shark off the coast of Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. SEE […]