Cloud

Dropbox is a stellar service, but it has a price tag to match

Computing

How to migrate from Dropbox to Google Drive and Google Photos

This year, Dropbox doubled the available storage available to Plus subscribers from 1 TB to 2 TB, but with it came a US$2 hike to the monthly subscription, up to $11.99 per month. For many home users, 2 TB is way more than is needed.

Picoh is a programmable home robot by Ohbot

Robotics

Programmable Picoh is a versatile blank slate of a robot

Most home robots aren’t particularly customizable. Now robotics startup Ohbot has unveiled its newest creation Picoh, a blank slate of a robot that can be programmed to do basically whatever you want it to do.

Lightning in the distance captured by airline pilot Christiaan van Heijst

Photography

Gallery: Breathtaking aerial photography from a 747 cockpit

Christiaan van Heijst is an airline pilot with over a decade's experience flying everything from small Turboprops to massive Boeing 747s. He's also a photographer able to capture spectacular images from his privileged perspective at 35,000 ft.

The general lamp setting offers a cloud illuminated as if shot by a bolt of lightning

Around The Home

This floating cloud lamp is a mini thunderstorm for your coffee table

Brooklyn-based designer Richard Clarkson has been experimenting with artificial cloud designs for several years now. His latest invention is the Floating Cloud – a magnetically levitating ambient lamp that flickers through different colored LED modes in response to the sound in a room.

IBM's 2017-model, 16-qubit quantum processor, seen here encased in a cryogenic chamber

Computing

IBM reveals prototype of its first commercial quantum computer processor

Having provided access to a quantum processor through the cloud for a year, IBM is revealing a new generation of processors. A 16-qubit processor will increase the processing power available through the cloud, while the second is twice as powerful again and designed for commercial applications.

Researchers at Google have experimented with how robots can share their experiences, to help teach each other basic skills

Robotics

Google teaches robots to teach each other

Robots have the potential to instantly share all the skills they've learned with other robots simply by transmitting the information over a network. It is this "cloud robotics" that Google researchers are looking to take advantage of to help robots gain skills more quickly.

Monument is designed to allow full, flexible control over personal storage

Electronics

This personal cloud stores your photos with easy mobile syncing, AI and facial recognition

The latest personal cloud may be able to assist casual and professional shutterbugs alike. Monument is designed with advanced algorithms that store, organize, and analyze photos and videos for simple, secure access.

Users of Wi-Fi enabled GoPro and Olympus cameras will be able to use Eyefi Mobi apps and Eyefi Cloud without a wireless memory card

Photography

Eyefi Mobi apps and Cloud to cover Wi-Fi GoPro and Olympus cameras

Eyefi has revealed that its Mobi apps and Eyefi Cloud service will now work with some Wi-Fi enabled cameras from GoPro and Olympus, without the need for a wireless memory cards. Compatible cameras include the GoPro Hero+ LCD and Hero 3/4 models, along with the Olympus PEN E-P5 and OM-D E-M5 Mark II.