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Samsung Galaxy S8+ Housing Same 3,500mAh Battery As Galaxy Note 7? Photo Of Vietnam-Assembled Battery Leaks
IBTimes - 13 Mar 2017 14:42
Samsung is already preparing its new flagship phone, the Galaxy S8, for launch later this month. However, Apple's biggest rival is also hard at work in finalizing the larger brother of the Galaxy S7 successor. This week,...
Life-Like Stretching of Cells
Medical Design Technology - 13 Mar 2017 16:46
News A new way to pull at cells has the potential to advance cell biology and biomedical research and may even impact the movement of robots and cleaning of industrial surfaces ... Contributed Author: Benjamin Boettner, ...
Efforts towards treating paralysis
Science Daily - 13 Mar 2017 16:24
Scientists report on the status of recent research and share their vision about the future of wearable neuroprosthetics.
How to watch March Madness games on your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV
Cult of Mac - 13 Mar 2017 19:12
By Chris Brantner, guest blogger March Madness is upon us. For the next month, college basketball will take over the sports world, and fans can catch all the action on their Apple devices. Whether you’re a cable subscr...
Scientists Store One Bit of Data on a Single Atom -- Future of Data Storage
The Hacker News - 13 Mar 2017 19:07
Imagine a pocket-sized hard drive capable of storing the entire list of 35 Million Songs? This isn't yet practical, but IBM has just taken a big step towards improving computing technology: IBM researchers just discovere...
Ultrashort light pulses for fast 'lightwave' computers
Phys.org - 13 Mar 2017 18:29
Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster than today's electronics.
YouTube launches Uptime, an experimental app for watching videos with friends
TechCrunch - 13 Mar 2017 16:46
Looking to turn watching YouTube videos into a more social experience, a team from Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, have launched Uptime, an app that lets you watch videos together with your friends. The app is i...
Pandora's New Features Make It a Much Better Spotify Rival
Time - 13 Mar 2017 16:41
Listeners can finally search for any song or album they want
Researchers make dramatic improvement in 3-D printing for home use
Phys.org - 13 Mar 2017 16:18
Waseda University researchers have developed a process to dramatically improve the quality of 3D printed resin products. The process combines greatly improved surface texture and higher structural rigidity with lower cos...
Russian hackers pose a threat to UK elections, GCHQ warns
ZDNet - 13 Mar 2017 06:23
An emergency summit has been called to discuss how far Russia cyberattacks could influence coming elections.
Study says Fukushima region is safe enough for people to return
Engadget - 13 Mar 2017 05:59
Fukushima's ill-fated nuclear power plant may still be so dangerous that it kills robots, but residents are trickling back as officials decide that radiation levels are safe in some areas. But are they safe enough that y...
Levi's and Google have finally unveiled their connected Commuter jacket
Digital Trends - 13 Mar 2017 05:01
Two years after first teasing us with its line of connected clothing, Google and Levi's have put us out of our misery. The first piece to come out of Project Jacquard is the Commuter Trucker jacket. The post Levi’s and...
Wandering satellites and space debris can now be found by a giant NASA antenna
Digital Trends - 13 Mar 2017 04:34
We've all had instances of absent-mindedness, and luckily for us, we've developed solutions. For us terrestrial beings, it may come in the form of Tile, and there's a new radar technique that is helping NASA find lost lu...
With quantum computers here, developers seek uses
PC World - 13 Mar 2017 20:39
After decades of research, the first quantum computers are now up and running. The question now is: What do we do with them? IBM and D-Wave are trying to cash in on their expensive quantum computers by commercializing se...
Simultaneous detection of multiple spin states in a single quantum dot
Phys.org - 13 Mar 2017 18:10
Quantum dots are very small particles that exhibit luminescence and electronic properties different from those of their bulk materials. As a result, they are attractive for use in solar cells, optoelectronics, and quantu...
Enormous Radio Telescope in China Subject of 'Impossible Engineering' | Video
SPACE.com - 13 Mar 2017 18:03
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest single dish radio telescope int the world. The Science Channel explores the telscope in a new episode of 'Impossible Engineering." Premieres...
Nintendo Switch exploit discovered, leverages old iOS WebKit jailbreak method
AppleInsider - 13 Mar 2017 16:49
Hackers have worked out a way to "jailbreak" the Nintendo Switch by attacking the game console's web browser, a technique that reused a vulnerability discovered in early 2016 commonly used to jailbreak iPhones running iO...
Intel Jumps Up and Down Shouting 'We're Here Too' With $15.3 Billion Mobileye Acquisition
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2017 16:41
Intel just plunked down $15.3 billion for Mobileye, a leading manufacturer of sensors and cameras for autonomous cars, as it tries to catch up with microchip rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm in the driverless car industry.
Kellyanne Conway: We Can be Watched by 'Microwaves That Turn Into Cameras'
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2017 16:30
Kellyanne Conway, on a couch littered with embroidered throw pillows, told Bergen Record columnist Mike Kelly that we can all be surveilled by "microwaves that turn into cameras." This, according to one of Trump's most d...
Has the Founder of Reddit Ever Used Reddit?
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2017 16:15
Serena Williams' husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is down in Austin, Texas at the SXSW tech orgy to proselytize about his dumb website. Ohanian, who surely exists in a different reality than you or I, says Redd...
No obstacles for airports using satellites
ESA - 13 Mar 2017 16:15
Thanks to ESA, airports can now use satellites to identify and manage obstacles that could pose a risk to flight safety.
Intel races ahead in autonomous cars with $15.3 billion Mobileye buy
PC World - 13 Mar 2017 16:01
Intel has shifted its self-driving car efforts into high gear with a $15.3 billion deal to acquire computer vision and collision-avoidance company MobileEye. With the deal, announced Monday, Intel gets its hands on techn...