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[ad_1] When it comes to Engadget and its sister sites, people with disabilities visiting sites like Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports require a design that they can navigate seamlessly, even if they can’t control a traditional keyboard and mouse. That includes making things like the home page smart enough to ...

[ad_1] Remember when eBay bought Hunch in 2011 to improve its personalization technology and attract shoppers based on their interests? Or when  it launched a Pinterest-like tool called Setify in 2012 for creating personalized collections and wishlists? Or when it revamped its mobile apps in 2014 to focus on discovery and interests? Well guess ...

[ad_1] The amount of units you’ve drunk will tell you if you’re within the safe legal limit for driving. But there are fewer easy ways to be alerted if you’re too tired to be safely behind the wheel of your car. A new in-car device called Ridy aims to change ...

[ad_1] Going forward, a similar vote will have to pass in the House of Representatives. And though BattleForTheNet.com says the measure is currently backed by 161 Representatives, that’s far from the 218 needed for it to pass. It’s unlikely Democrats will be able to rally the kind of support they ...

[ad_1] Warnings that Tencent, Asia’s highest-valued tech company, might suffer a rare poor quarter of business proved unwarranted after the company smashed analyst expectations for its latest earnings thanks to its fast-growing mobile games business. The company reported a net profit of 23.29 billion CNY ($3.7 billion) on revenue of 73.53 billion ...

[ad_1] Hero Images If you browse through Kickstarter today, you might notice something different. On certain projects, you’ll see a little black badge in the lower left, just below the pitch video. These badges say “Hardware Studio,” and while they’re fairly easy to overlook and seemingly insignificant, they’re actually a ...

[ad_1] Surfing the net is becoming an increasingly user-tailored affair; every click is monitored and every video browsed gets carefully logged in YouTube’s watch history, so its algorithms can keep feeding you recommendations. You can of course dive inside YouTube’s settings menu and disable viewing (or search) history, but it’s ...

[ad_1] There’s probably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having to learn to use the internet in a responsible way on their own. Today, Facebook is releasing a new Youth Portal ...

[ad_1] University of the Arts Bremen A blink might only last around 0.3 to 0.4 seconds, but that’s still enough time for you to miss information, hence the phrase “blink and you’ll miss it.” Researchers from Germany’s University of the Arts Bremen have come up with a device to help ...

[ad_1] Let just dispel some of the skateboard-related crossover possibilities right out of the gate. The weight difference between a regular skateboard and the Boosted Mini is drastic. Yes, it’s easier to hold the Mini since it’s shorter than the 17-pound longboard model, but the S is also only two ...