Kickstarter investigates US$3.5 million failed project

Kickstarter is taking a look into a massively funded and failed ZANO drone campaign. They hired an investigative reporter to look into why the project didn’t push through. Over 12,000 backers paid over US$3.5 million to fund this small autonomous drone. It was supposed to be released in January of this year but the release date came and went without any word from the company, Torque Group Ltd, and it ultimately shut down last month, leaving backers without any compensation for their support.

Kickstarter hired Mark Harris to get the details. According to Harris, “[Kickstarter] would like to uncover the story of Zano, from its inception to the present…” He’ll also look into Kickstarter’s role in the project and how it could have helped the both the creators and its backers. Kickstarter will see the final story before publication but they have “no right” to make or suggest changes to the story. He anticipates publishing his story maybe mid next month.

Source: Slash Gear

Change your Facebook profile to show you’re a ‘Star Wars’ fan

The marketing efforts for Star Wars: The Force Awakens are relentless to say the least. With the movie coming out this week, Facebook is cashing in on the popularity by letting you change your profile picture temporarily to have either the red Dark Side cross-guard lightsaber or the blue Finn lightsaber. You can just click this link and try it out or check the link on Star Wars’ Facebook page. The direct link seems to be working from mobile for me, in case you want to check that out.

Source: Tech Crunch

Google Drive improves search feature

It’s now much easier to look for the files you need on Google Drive. The new search feature of the cloud service lets you use things like words within files, file types, name of its owner, date modified, and whom files have been shared with. The feature is coming to Android, iOS, and the Web. On iOS, it even allows for deep linking, meaning you can even do the search right from the iOS search bar. Google is rolling this out over the next few weeks so just been on the lookout for the update.

Source: Google Drive Blog | Via: The Next Web

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ gets its first full trailer

Twenty years after the first film came out, the aliens have come back. And while Will Smith isn’t making a comeback, we see a lot of the old cast and some new faces taking on the aliens. We get to hear the original film’s iconic speech along with images from the new one showing just how much has changed in the past two decades. Jeff Goldblum’s David Levinson said it the best in the trailer, “That is definitely bigger than the last one.”

Source: iO9