DNA testing company 23andMe has partnered with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), in a bid to develop new drug treatments. 23andMe, which gives customers insight into their genetic makeup via postal saliva tests, has some five million custom…
Have you ever wondered how aerodynamic Star Wars ships really are? Well, wonder no more. EC Henry decided to give us some answers. He used AutoDesk’s now discontinued Flow Design software to analyze the aerodynamics and drag coefficients of ships from the Star Wars universe. I know, they don’t travel through air, they travel through space, but it’s still fun to see how aerodynamic their designs are anyhow.
As you may have guessed TIE Fighters are pretty useless when flying through the air. A TIE Interceptor is not much better than a standard TIE Fighter. X-Wings are better, but still not all that great. It turns out that A-Wing fighters are pretty fast.
Boba Fett’s Slave 1 would totally suck in the atmosphere and I’m guessing the Millennium Falcon would too. So basically Star Wars ships flying through the air are not a good idea and if they did, the Empire would never catch the rebels anyway. It doesn’t matter anyway because spaceships are for space.
I would love to see this done with Star Trek ships because I’m pretty sure that the Federation’s ships would be terrible in the atmosphere. The worst ship ever? The Borg cube. You can’t just fling a brick into the air and expect it to do much.
[via The Awesomer]
Open Reel Ensemble doesn’t play conventional instruments, like guitars, drums and keyboards. Instead, the Japanese band uses reel-to-reel tape recorders built by Pioneer and TEAC in the 1970s and ’80s. They weren’t designed, of course, with musical c…
Anti-piracy tech company Denuvo isn’t messing around when it comes to game hackers. It touts its digital rights management (DRM) tool as uncrackable and for the most part, it held up for years. But in 2016, a Bulgarian games cracker called Voksi mana…
Samsung has been rather conservative with RAM in smartphones once it hit the 4 GB mark back in 2015. In fact, it was only last year that it added 6 GB of RAM to its flagships. It might be long overdue another upgrade and it may already have the silicon ready. The company just kicked off the mass production of … Continue reading
It’s a staple of film when an iris scanner is involved for some high-security needs for the bad guys to simply kill the person with clearance and cut out their eyeball to gain access. As farfetched as that sounds apparently that exact scenario is a viable way to bypass iris scanner security. Researchers want to block that flaw in modern … Continue reading
When we think of wearable technology, devices like fitness trackers and smartwatches probably come to mind. However in recent times that has changed as companies are starting to explore smart clothing. Google and Levi’s are such companies who have in the past launched a smart jacket.
Now it looks like fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger has decided to toss their hat into the ring by launching a new lineup of smart clothing called Tommy Jeans Xplore. These are clothing items that will allow users to embed Bluetooth tags into them which will then pair with the company’s mobile app.
However unlike Google’s collaboration with Levi’s where they wanted to create smart clothing to help users manage their notifications, Tommy Hilfiger’s smart clothing seems to be about advertising. Basically the more you wear the company’s smart clothing, you will be able to earn rewards such as gift cards.
Users will also be able to complete missions and challenges, such as finding heart-shaped Tommy-branded icons on the map. Basically it sounds like the brand is trying to turn users into a walking advertisement, or according to the official tagline, to create a “micro-community of brand ambassadors”. Whether or not people will actually take up the company on their offer remains to be seen, but there are a multitude of questions regarding privacy that probably need answering.
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In a bid to reduce their reliance on Samsung, Apple is said to have invested into LG to help them get their OLED production up and running. In fact one of the rumors of the 2018 iPhone is that LG could be the OLED supplier for at least one of the rumored models. However it turns out that might not necessarily be the case.
A report from The Bell (via PhoneArena) out of Korea, it seems that LG isn’t quite ready to provide OLEDs for the iPhone just yet. The company is only said to be in the testing phase for mass production of the panels, whereas Samsung has already started delivering batches of OLED panels back in June.
This means that LG is so far behind that according to the report, LG could only end up supplying around 2-4 million units, versus the 75 million units that Samsung will be supplying. In fact if things don’t pick up and if the OLEDs produced by LG don’t meet Apple’s standards, LG could end up only supplying to Apple for repair or replacement purposes which is no doubt a drop in the bucket compared to if they were supplying for the iPhones that would be going on sale.
Either way we’ll have to wait and see how this pans out, but until then maybe take it with a grain of salt.
LG’s iPhone OLED Panels Might Only Be Used For Repairs , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Samsung’s mobile devices have to date packed 6GB of RAM at most. This is versus some of Samsung’s competition which started to offer up 8GB of RAM. Of course whether or not so much RAM is necessary is up for debate, but from a marketing perspective, 8GB of RAM does sound more impressive (on paper).
However one of the rumors of the upcoming Galaxy Note 9 is that Samsung could be equipping it with 8GB of RAM, a rumor which Samsung seems to have semi-confirmed. The company has recently unveiled a new “ultra-thin” 8GB RAM module which they claim makes it perfect for next-gen flagship mobile devices.
According to Samsung, they claim to have “created an 8GB LPDDR4X mobile DRAM package by combining four of the 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM chips (16Gb=2GB). This four-channel package can realize a data rate of 34.1GB per second and its thickness has been reduced by more than 20 percent from the 1st-gen package, enabling OEMs to design slimmer yet more effective mobile devices.”
The company does not come right out and state that it will find its way to the Note 9 or 2019’s Galaxy S10, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it did, but until we get the official word maybe don’t get your hopes up just yet.
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