Adriana is the resident writer-slash-culture vulture who has written about everything from smartphones, tablets, apps, accessories, and small biz technology to cooking, fashion, pop culture, newsmakers and the arts. She has appeared on Fox Business News, and her work has been published in Time Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. All of this gives her a unique view on her passions, technology and modern lifestyle. You can find her where the two intersect, at TechnoBuffalo, or follow her on Twitter at @Adra_La
Position Senior Editor at TechnoBuffalo
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By Adriana Lee |
Google versus Apple is so over. It’s all about Google versus Microsoft now. Yes, I know that Google CEO Larry Page told I/O attendees that companies shouldn’t be pitted against each together in the press, but it’s sort of tough not to when those companies…
By Adriana Lee |
Who can’t appreciate a good burn? If you do, then you might delight in the opening comments of Daniel Graf, director of Google Maps for mobile, at the I/O conference earlier today. “As most of you probably heard, last December, we launched Google Maps on…
By Adriana Lee |
Google revealed a windfall of changes at the Google I/O conference. The modus operandi, stated repeatedly today, was to “get technology out of the way.” That’s an interesting point of view, considering Google is often the company of choice for the geek set. But this…
By Adriana Lee |
To think Google would ignore the major opportunity that music streaming presents would be foolish. In fact, pre-I/O rumors pretty much nailed the fact that the company was striking deals and developing its own music streaming service. At this point, everyone — from Apple and…
By Adriana Lee |
At Google I/O, the company has unveiled a new Android development environment today called Android Studio. Built off of the IntelliJ IDEA, the Eclipse replacement will feature things like multiple layout tools for a range of devices. Tweaks and app revisions to Android code show up in…
By Adriana Lee |
Portlandia’s Fred Armisen has to be one of the funniest people around today. Who didn’t snort-laugh when he played a tech reviewer showing off a particularly glitchy Google Glass on Saturday Night Live? (If you didn’t catch it, the video is embedded below.) The prop…
By Adriana Lee |
Global warming has been a hot-button controversy for years, but there’s a new app that could end the discussion once and for all. Novim, a research group from UC Santa Barbara, took on the daunting task of wrangling data from more than two centuries of research…
By Adriana Lee |
Cell phones are so over, says Newt Gingrich. No, not the devices, the name. ABC News reports that the former Speaker of the House is on a hunt for a new designation to describe these all-purpose devices we eat with, sleep with and even take…
By Adriana Lee |
Chances are, you’ve sung into a mirror gripping a hairbrush or lost yourself in your own air guitar virtuosity at some point. And why not? It’s easy to let the creativity flow in the comfort of your own house. And, it seems, that’s true no…
By Adriana Lee |
The news of Samsung’s successful 5G technology tests is positively droolworthy. According to the company, the data can travel at more than a GB per second over a distance of more than a mile. This sparks so many questions. How are such speeds possible? (Via…
By Adriana Lee |
The Senate began debating a new immigration reform measure recently, and it has privacy hounds up in arms. The legislation involves creating a national database of biometric information on every adult in the United States. What exactly do they mean by “biometric information”? Well, in…
By Adriana Lee |
As if there wasn’t enough to look forward to. Not only is Arrested Development heading this way in a couple of weeks, but now we’re looking at another brilliant piece of entertainment coming soon to the small screen. A new trailer for ABC’s Agents of…
By Adriana Lee |
Hooray! The wait to find out what happened to Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) and his developmentally arrested kin is almost over, thanks to Netflix. All the dysfunctional family fun we can handle will be hitting our screens and funny bones in just less than two…
By Adriana Lee |
When you think of bank robbers, ski-masked men seizing a bank with guns blazing might be the predominant mental picture. Oh, but that’s soooo over. Thieves no longer have to threaten tellers or ransack vaults to get their loot. But they do need tech expertise,…
By Adriana Lee |
Generally speaking, techsters don’t really like too many limitations. After all, there’s a reason why open-source, or freely available software code, has so many fans. Google and other companies have been advocates of an open Internet, doing their best to persuade closed nations and regimes…
By Adriana Lee |
Google has been taking a lot of heat over the stylistic design of Project Glass. Sure, it’s a bit geeky, but hey — who else other than geeks would spend over a thousand bucks to adopt an unproven tech so early? Still, the company is trying,…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever had a virus infect your Windows computer? If you thought that headache and irritation over your home computer was bad, imagine how the astronauts on the International Space Station felt when a Russian cosmonaut brought in an infected laptop in 2008. The computer carried…
By Adriana Lee |
Technology can be a bizarre thing. Sometimes, we accidentally delete something and feel crestfallen that we can’t get it back. (That is one of the many, many reasons to back that sucker up regularly.) But other times, the things we believe to be gone just…
By Adriana Lee |
Tech users may be more blasé than ever about privacy matters and tracking features, but even the most indifferent might feel ill at ease if they lived in India. The country, which is responsible for much of the talent that has become modern technology’s lifeblood,…
By Adriana Lee |
Jennie Lamere was the only female to present a completed project at a national coding competition in Boston. At just 17 years old, she’s a lone tech-head at her all-girls school and wound up being the only participant in the TVnext Hack event to work…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever wonder what the tech landscape might look like if companies could pursue application development without pesky patents getting in the way? Well, we may not have to wonder anymore, merely look to New Zealand as an example, since it just passed a bill giving…
By Adriana Lee |
If you can’t wait until Star Trek Into the Darkness comes out on May 16, here’s your taste of Spocktastic action, courtesy of Audi. There is so much awesome in the car company’s newest promo that one Spock cannot possibly contain it. No, Audi gave…
By Adriana Lee |
Rocking a pair of pricey earbuds? Well, there’s no shame in being excited, but don’t celebrate by cranking that sound up. You could bust the delicate circuitry in that noggin of yours. Studies show that young people ages 11 to 19 are increasingly experiencing some…
By Adriana Lee |
San Francisco’s City Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to revoke an extremely controversial statute — the first of its kind in the U.S. — that would have mandated health warnings to customers for mobile phones. Specifically, the law would have required retailers to inform…
