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How to Check AirPods Battery Life on iPhone and Apple Watch
Mac Rumors - 10 Jan 2019 15:41
Apple AirPods offer around five hours of listening time and two hours of talk time on a single charge, and if you pop your AirPods for 15 minutes in their case, you can get up to three hours of listening time or over an ...
Is Anyone Out There? New SETI Tool Keeps Track of Alien Searches
SPACE.com - 10 Jan 2019 10:16I went on a date with a CES robot. He was nice.
Mashable - 10 Jan 2019 06:36Breaking down the Google Assistant news and strategy for 2019
Engadget - 10 Jan 2019 03:31
You can't escape the Google Assistant at CES 2019. Not only did the company set up a massive booth, complete with a mini roller coaster-like train ride, but it also has a giant gumball machine parked in front of the entr...
In VR Boys Learn Best When the Teacher Is a Drone -- Girls Learn Better From Virtual Marie
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jan 2019 15:49
News Few years from now, students in schools all over the world will receive part of their education in virtual learning environments. Wearing VR-goggles the students will be able to enter 3-dimentional, simulated places...
Juul Is Leaning Hard Into Its New 'Adult Education Campaign'
Gizmodo - 10 Jan 2019 10:26
Following increased pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Juul Labs is taking a notably different approach from its ad campaigns of yore--the ones accused of making its e-cigarette products widely appeali...
Instagram enables posting to multiple accounts at the same time
Slash Gear - 10 Jan 2019 03:57
Instagram has made it possible to post content to multiple accounts at the same time, a convenience feature that saves a lot of time for brands and the many users who juggle more than one account. The new feature hasn’...
Air Force to upgrade existing GPS ground control system while next-generation OCX lags
Space News - 10 Jan 2019 03:45
The Air Force awarded a $462 million contract to Lockheed Martin to continue the modernization of the GPS ground control system. SpaceNews.com
Scientists want to genetically engineer a spicy tomato - CNET
CNET - 10 Jan 2019 02:11
Bland tomato, you're out. Long live the spicy tomato.
Hubble Space Telescope Faces More Hardware Trouble
Gizmodo - 10 Jan 2019 17:15
The Hubble Space Telescope team has temporarily suspended operations of Wide Field Camera 3 following a hardware glitch.
Engineered light could improve health, food, suggests researcher
Phys.org - 10 Jan 2019 16:19
People who believe light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, are just an efficient upgrade to the ordinary electric light bulb are stuck in their thinking, suggest Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jeff Tsao and colleagues f...
Revolut hires Freetrade co-founder and former CTO as Head of Wealth & Trading Product
TechCrunch - 10 Jan 2019 16:10
The London fintech industry is pretty close-knit, fall of strong personalities, and at times fiercely competitive. Within this context it is quite common for employees — and sometimes even founders — to swap sides. T...
The most incredible phone design we've ever seen just leaked, and it's not an iPhone or Galaxy phone
BGR - 10 Jan 2019 15:17
Back in 2017, Apple's design boss Jony Ive revealed to the world what the perfect iPhone design would look like, at least in his eyes. According to Ive, its appearance would "appear like a single sheet of glass." The ide...
5G might be over-hyped, but silly 10G claim shows it already scares cable companies
9 to 5 Mac - 10 Jan 2019 14:42
As if some of the marketing hype around 5G weren’t already silly enough, the cable industry is hitting back with an absurd 10G marketing campaign. 5G doesn’t just offer the potential for dramatically better mobile da...
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Mashable - 10 Jan 2019 13:06Application of nanosized LiFePO4 modified electrode to electrochemical sensor & biosensor
EurekAlert! - 10 Jan 2019 07:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) The aim of this paper was to construct nanosized LFP modified electrodes, which could be applied as working electrode for rutin analysis and as an electrochemical biosensor for direct electro...
AT&T plans to roll out nationwide mobile 5G by early 2020, CEO responds to '5G E' blowback
AppleInsider - 10 Jan 2019 04:37
As U.S. wireless carriers hurtle headlong toward a 5G future, AT&T on Wednesday revealed plans to blanket the nation with access to the super speedy protocol in early 2020 using its lower band spectrum technology.
Homeless Man Connected to $400,000 Alleged GoFundMe Scam Arrested in Philadelphia
Gizmodo - 10 Jan 2019 04:00
The Philadelphia Police Department said Wednesday that Johnny Bobbitt Jr., the homeless man linked to an alleged GoFundMe scam that raised more than $400,000, was arrested after he failed to appear in court in New Jersey...
Oil and gas giants Chevron and Occidental are backing tech to combat carbon emissions
TechCrunch - 10 Jan 2019 03:43
Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and process it for use in enhanced oil recovery or in the creation of new synthetic fuels, has locked in financing...
Samsung confirms foldable phone will launch in the first half of the year
BGR - 10 Jan 2019 03:38
The best thing coming out of CES 2019 might be a product that regular mortals don't get to see, and that's because Samsung showcased a Galaxy F prototype to clients behind closed doors. Samsung, of course, showed us clev...
House of Marley makes analog audio wireless with Bluetooth-enabled turntable
Digital Trends - 10 Jan 2019 03:06
Sustainability focused audio brand House of Marley has added Bluetooth capability to its already awesome Stir It Up turntable, allowing listeners to stream their favorite analog audio to their portable speaker of choice....
Bose's high-tech noise-canceling system is coming to cars
Pocket-lint - 10 Jan 2019 02:37
Bose has a new system that aims to make your drive-time more peaceful.The company, which is mostly known for its lineup of high-quality speakers, designed