Tag: Technology
Review: Devices, apps act like one under iOS 8
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The scores of new features in Apple’s software update for mobile devices can be boiled down to one word: unity.
Many iPhone owners...
‘Largest ever’: SanDisk creates 512 GB SD memory card
Memory specialist SanDisk has created an SD card with 512 gigabytes (512GB) of storage space - the highest capacity ever released.
The card, which is...
Man left with deformed skull after horrific fall has it...
A Chinese farmer left with a large chunk missing from his skull is to have it repaired with the help of a 3D printer.
The...
Kenya recycles global e-waste
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In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts. This...
Microsoft to unveil new Windows software: report
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A news report out Thursday indicated that Microsoft is poised to give the world a glimpse at a new-generation computer operating system...
More taxes through technology!
Punjab Minister for Excise, Taxation and Finance Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman has said that government has adopted the policy of computerisation and e-technology in government...
World’s fastest camera invented, takes 4.4 trillion images a second
High speed cameras allow researchers to see things that they would normally miss, from the beating wings of a hummingbird to how a boat...
Dell develops mood-reading tech for the office and play
The head of Dell's new research and development division has said the company could release a mood-reading application as soon as 2017, BBC News...
Computer programme writes its own fables!
Many people will be familiar with Aesop’s fables such as The Hare and the Tortoise, but now there’s a computer programme that uses artificial...
Really smart cars are ready to take the wheel
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Why waste your time looking for a place to park when your car can do it for you? An idea that was pure science...
Japan plans giant ‘Gundam’ robot
A team of Japanese animators and engineers on Wednesday unveiled plans to build a moving 18-metre (60-foot) tall Gundam robot, in a nod to...
Your Android Phone Might Be Leaking Your Location
The names of the WiFi networks to which you connect probably say a lot about you. Did you just come back from an airport?...
Google Android software spreading to cars, watches, TV
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Google set out Wednesday to expand its Android empire beyond smartphones to cars, watches and televisions.
The technology titan laid out a sweeping Android...
Japan hires humanoid robots as museum guide, news casters
She has long brown hair, twitches her eyebrows, sways her heads from side to side and uses her hands for emphasis
But despite her realistic...
Malware worms its way into more mobile apps: study
Malicious software is increasingly making its way into mobile phones through "cloned" versions of popular apps, and software weaknesses in legitimate ones, security researchers...
Texting ‘can boost children’s spelling and grammar’
Children's unorthodox spelling and grammar while texting does not stop them learning the rules of formal English, suggests research.
Just over 160 children, aged between...
A laptop phablet! Asus launches new ‘five-mode’ hybrid device
Leading Taiwanese tech firm Asus unveiled a hybrid device which combines a laptop, tablet and mobile phone this week in what it hailed as...