You Can Now Build Your Own Moto 360 Smartwatch On Moto Maker

Motorola’s Android Wear smartwatch, which led sales of Android Wear devices during their first year of availability, is now part of Moto Maker, the custom hardware design platform that lets shoppers build their own looks for Moto devices. Moto 360 customization options include three different finishes, nine separate band styles and a number of different pre-installed watch face options. And no, it’s not possible that the timing of this is purely coincidental with the big Watch event Apple hosted Monday.

Apple’s approach still offers more in the way of customization, but Motorola’s play is a clever, and fairly easy-to-implement way to add a range of personalization to an existing product, in a way that Android Wear competitors probably can’t match quite as easily.

Keeps Your iPhone Calls And Texts Safe From Government Spies

A new app is created and it is called Signal. This app makes it harder for the government to get a hold of your information. It gets high marks from both the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a comprehensive solution for protecting your privacy. The second version of the app, which launched this week on the App Store, makes it possible to send encrypted group, text, picture and video messages for free from iPhone to iPhone. If Android users want to use Signal, there are two similar apps, TextSecure and RedPhone.

“The idea is to scramble the information so well that it’s not worth pursuing. We want to make it hard to get your information to the point that it’s not worth going after,” Marlinspike says. (founder)