There’s an old saying that luck happens when preparation meets opportunity. There’s no better example of that than a recent discovery at the University of California, Irvine by doctoral student Mya Le Thai. After playing around in the lab she made a discovery that could lead to a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 400 years. That means longer-lasting laptops and smartphones and fewer lithium...
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Apple has unveiled a new generation of the MacBook Pro, which includes three laptops, two of which are 13-inch and one 15-inch. The best features of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro are: Touch Bar screen that replaces the function keys TouchID integrated with the power button that is compatible with Apple Pay No standard USB port, instead it has USB-C ports Up to 10 hours of battery life Two...
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After many weeks of anticipation, BlackBerry has finally announced its latest Android-running smartphone, the DTEK60. In the press release, the company states that the hardware inside the DTEK60 is manufactured by TCL, as part of "BlackBerry's transition towards a device software licensing strategy" which allows it to focus on putting "the smart in the phone." The DTEK60 doesn’t seem to bring any major design changes to...
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Smartphones are an absolute must have for today’s tech savvy generation, with touch screen smartphones getting larger and larger screens, a Chinese tech firm looks to reverse the trend by introducing the world's smallest touch screen device. Meet Vphone, developed by a company formed just six years back looks like a smartwatch but works as a smartphone, reported GIZBOT. The Vphone enjoys impressive measurements of 46.7 mm...
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Blincam is a camera. It is a standalone, handsfree camera that can be attached to any pair of glasses. And not smart glasses but your regular glasses. The good part of the blincam is that to take a picture, all you have to do is wink. It is funded by a Tokyo-based startup. To take a picture, just wink. So when the Blincam is released and people...
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Google is now fact checking stories on Google News. The fact check label will be added next to news stories in search result. Richard Gingras, Google's head of news in a blogpost says this. "Google News determines whether an article might contain fact checks in part by looking for the schema.org ClaimReview markup. We also look for sites that follow the commonly accepted criteria for fact checks ...
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Instagram App for Windows 10 PC and Tablets. Instagram Windows 10 app was only available on Windows mobile. Yesterday, Thursday, the app was updated and is now available for download from the Windows App Store. The app can now work on Windows 10 PC's and tablets. It has its own Live Tile that shows you new photos and notifications right from your home screen. All the features...
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China builds the world's most powerful computer. The 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi. At its peak, the computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second. It is twice as fast and three times as efficient as the previous leader Tianhe-2, also from China, said Top500. Its main applications include advanced manufacturing, weather forecasting and big data analytics, wrote Jack Dongarra...
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Chrome 54 stable channel update Yesterday, the Chrome team announced the promotion of Chrome 54 to the stable channel - 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. You can update to the latest version now using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome. The update changes the way the browser handles YouTube embeds on a webpage page. Chrome...
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Will this be the end for Samsung Galaxy Note 7? :-( Samsung might stop Note 7 production all together especially with reports that some of the replacement devices caught fire. These reports made Samsung temporarily halt production after talks with safety regulators. Samsung's reason being that it is just adjusting the production schedule to ensure quality and safety matters. As we are aware Samsung issued a recall of...
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