Swapbox Lands $800K To Take On Google’s BufferBox And Amazon’s Lockers

San Francisco-based startup and Y Combinator Winter 2013 class member Swapbox has raised $800,000 in seed funding, led by Tony Hsieh’s Vega...

Google Still Lags In Mobile Cameras, But Android 4.1.1 Should Make Things Better For The Nexus 5

Google’s Android OS has many venerable traits, but the camera isn’t one of them. The software iterates with each release, but it doesn’t eve...

After 12M Downloads, Houzz Launches Redesigned iOS App With Full Screen Images, Easier Navigation

Houzz , the popular online platform for home remodeling and design, is launching a completely redesigned iOS app for iPhone and iPad today ....

Here's Looking at Me, iPhone

USPTO just granted Apple a patent for a facial recognition feature that could unlock a mobile device as well as control how it works. That...

Terminator Ends the Terminal Window Blahs

Terminator is not for casual Linux users who rarely stray from the menu-driven applications. If you ever venture into what some regard as ...

How to Encrypt Your Email

Some years ago, an antinuclear activist named Phil Zimmermann created a data encryption program for computers. He designed a key-generatio...

Pinterest’s Engineering Lead Jon Jenkins Leaves To Launch His Own Startup

Jon Jenkins, who joined Pinterest a year ago as its head of engineering, is leaving the company in what he describes on Quora as a “bitter...