If there’s one method for firing up interest in a service early that’s bound to work, it’s sending out an open invite for users to register their username early. That’s what the folks at Beats Music are doing this week with their upcoming streaming music service, readied for January of 2014, coming up today with […]
Flexible smartphones will dominate 40-percent of the smartphone market by 2018, LG predicts, billing the LG G Flex with its curved 6-inch AMOLED display as the first of a new breed of handsets. “We got bored of flat” LG‘s Dr Ramchan Woo, head of mobile product planning, said of the motivation behind the G Flex, […]
Tablet sales grew more than 50-percent in 2013 versus the previous year but growth is likely to slow toward 2017, new research indicates, with analysts skeptical that Windows slates will gain significant traction any time soon. Shipments worldwide grew 53.5-percent year on year to an expected 221.3m, IDC‘s figures indicate, with predications that larger-screen models […]
This week we’re getting another look at the Qualcomm Toq smartwatch, a device that was revealed by the processor manufacturer earlier this year. This device was revealed on the same day the Samsung Galaxy Gear was shown off, the Samsung device aimed at consumers, the Qualcomm device directed at a crowd that’s made up of […]
Signs of water on five distant planets have been spotted using the Hubble Space Telescope, with scientists finessing their measurements so as to better differentiate which stand the best likelihood of potentially supporting life. Evidence of water had been initially spotted on several Jupiter-like exoplanets previously, but the team led by the University of Maryland […]
A new patent filing suggests that Apple could be looking to include facial recognition technology on future hardware. The details come by way of a USPTO filing for patent number 8,600,120. More interesting than the number though, said filing talks of controlling a “personal computing device” using “face detection and recognition.” The language in the […]
Taking a peek into our genes isn’t something easily accomplished, and that is where the Google-backed 23andMe genetic testing service came in. For $99, anyone could send in their sample and receive the results a short while later. In recent days, the company was slapped with an order from the FDA to stop selling its […]
Apple would appear to be readying themselves for a full-on Twitter analyzation push if today’s suggestion that they’ve acquired Topsy Labs Inc is true. Apple’s own Tim Cook joined Twitter earlier this year while Twitter itself went public just weeks ago, turning in to a publically-traded company and eschewing forth changes that will forever reflect […]
This week the Windows 8.1 (formerly known as “Blue”) software update continues to roll out as it has for the past several weeks, making way for the same sort of push for Windows Phone devices this spring. What’s just appearing this week for news on the generation after this one is the likes of “Threshold”, […]
If you thought Sunday deliveries from Amazon and the USPS was a visionary idea, you are setting the bar way too low. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos this week revealed plans to Charlie Rose on CBS’s 60 Minutes to one day deliver your purchases in 30 minutes or less — with drones. They’re called “octocopters,” and […]
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