May 14
More cores is better. Right? MediaTek seems to think so. The Helio X20 SoC packs a whopping 10 ARM cores, and support for a certain cellular wireless standard should allow Android smartphones bearing the chip to show up in the US.
May 14
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has just released in high resolution this amazing historical photo. According to ORNL, in this photograph you can see two scientists as they remove the world’s first radioactive isotope produced for medical use from Oak Ridge’s Graphite Reactor, on August 2nd 1946. In compulsory collar and tie.
May 14
Today only on Amazon, you can save big on a huge assortment of PC parts and peripherals. There’s great stuff here if you’re building a PC from scratch, including SSDs, a case, a graphics card, and some RAM, but you’ll also find upgrades and peripherals for existing PCs, like monitors, gaming headsets, and software.
May 14
Like a fancy touchscreen watch that reminds you to buy milk, a robot vacuum is a luxury few of us actually need—but many of us would love to have.
May 14
You may enjoy watching the hours of footage you recorded the last time you went skiing, but your friends are too polite to tell you how boring it actually is. So instead of spending days editing your adventures down to a short highlight reel, Microsoft has just introduced a new app called Hyperlapse that can automatically turn long, shaky videos into short, steady time lapse clips.
May 14
Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at what might be and will be. BitStream gathers the whispers all in one place to divine what the future has in store.
May 14
Well, it’s official Minecraft fans, your gameplay videos are officially clogging up YouTube. The steaming video service revealed on Wednesday that the virtual brick-building/sandbox game is the most-watched video game of all time. YouTube says that there are more than 42 million videos with Minecraft game content in them, accounting for more hours of footage than any other game. “Minecraft” … Continue reading
May 14
With the impending release of Windows 10, Microsoft’s operating system is becoming interesting again. Or curious at the very least. But if you’re looking around for a decent Windows tablet for work and for play, you don’t have to wait for Windows 10 to come out to get one. And it doesn’t matter how much you’re willing to spend on … Continue reading
May 14
Microsoft reveals Hyperlapse, a desktop app, mobile app, and cloud tools suite made to make long videos shorter and smoother. This system is made primarily for video like what you might capture on a long bike ride. Or a skiing trip. Or on a tour through a museum. Speeding up a first-person walk through an environment can often result in … Continue reading
May 14
UK-based OpenSignal has made a record for themselves of gathering useful mobile network coverage data via crowdsourcing. Then they went on to use the same technique for gathering weather information. Now the company has released a new app that crowdsources the next most useful information: free public WiFi hotspots. WiFiMapper, now available for iOS, not only relies on users submitting … Continue reading
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