Can technology help us improve upon reality?
Imagine walking on Mars and being able to examine rock formations from all angles, or collaborating on the same 3D hologram design with someone thousands of miles away. Or imagine being able to...
Wearables Drive The Component Technology Innovation
For years, many of the key components of wearables have been drafting off the strengths of the smartphone supply chain. During the last two years, the application processors and sensors for wrist...
Apple ordered to unlock San Bernardino gunman’s phone
Apple has been ordered to help FBI investigators access data on the phone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook and his wife killed 14 people in the California city last...
Innovative Smartphone App Saves Factory Workers Daily 1 Kilometer Walk
More than a century after Henry Ford started the first moving assembly line, Ford Motor Company is bringing his pioneering invention into the smartphone age. Ford has developed a wearable device,...
Hack lets phones ‘eavesdrop and make premium calls’
Security researchers have hacked a phone to show how it is possible to eavesdrop on conversations and make premium calls on someone else’s line. The problem affects...
Virgin Atlantic flight back in UK after ‘laser incident’
A flight heading to New York turned back to London Heathrow Airport after a “laser beam incident”, Virgin Atlantic has confirmed. A crew member is recorded saying to Irish air traffic...
How to trap elephant poachers with their own technology
One day last October, agents from a crack Tanzanian crime unit raced past Dar es Salaam’s Palm Beach Hotel in pursuit of the suspected leader of a global elephant poaching ring. The chase was...
China’s Xiaomi phones on sale in the US for the first time
Phones made by China’s Xiaomi – the world’s third biggest smartphone maker – are going on sale in the US for the first time, albeit with some caveats. The carrier US Mobile...
