‘Diet Scanners’ To Be Fitted In Smartphones. Technology allowing phone users to find out sugar levels in a piece of fruit, or the fat in cheese, could be widespread in years.
Within just a few years, every smartphone could be fitted with a tiny molecular scanner that would transform what we know about the physical world.
Sky Q New Generation Skybox. When Sky launched its pay-TV platform in the UK, it was the outsider in the broadcast industry.
But Sky’s forthcoming “Q” service is aimed at a very different future from the one targeted by Apple, Google, Amazon and Roku. Those services all have streaming set-top boxes that would make broadcast TV channels just another app icon to pick.
There has been word on the street that a Plus-sized version of the Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus is on its way, we’ve heard that before Samsung unveils the Galaxy Note 5, or maybe even at the same time, it will be supersizing its current Android flagship smartphone.
There were also previous rumours that the company would consider a standard Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus too, but those have waned of late and it is thought that only the edge will get a beefier version, bringing that gorgeous wrapped-screen design aesthetic to the larger phone market.
The experimental craft took off from Abu Dhabi in March, but it was always known that the Pacific crossing would be the most challenging part of the journey.
No ship or plane is trailing Solar Impulse 2 – meaning any failure over the ocean would have prompted a parachute descent with a life raft into the water.
The Taiwanese brand has confirmed that the phone will be launching in mid-March for Taiwan and Europe, with the US launch beginning April 10 and varying by carrier.
It’s another full metal uni-body on the HTC One M9, after near universal praise for the One M8’s distinctive design. The design was one of the key reasons we voted it TechRadar’s Phone of the Year 2014, and it’s back again.
Participants will do computerised tests to measure their brain function
The Study of Cognition, Adolescents and Mobile Phones, or SCAMP, will assess 2500 11 and 12-year-olds over three years.
In the same period 160 billion instant messages were sent, a huge jump from 57 billion in 2012.
In 2014 they predict the number of traditional texts will continue to fall, but a staggering 300 billion instant messages will be sent.
3D scanning bounces lasers off objects using the echo to map them in space.
The process is used to build up 3D digital images of almost anything, regardless of size or complexity.
It alleges that Facebook systematically intercepts messages to mine user data and profits by sharing it with data aggregators, advertisers and marketers.
Facebook said the allegations were “without merit”.
Research by music trade body the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Official Charts Company shows 7.4 billion tracks were played on paid-for or ad-funded streaming services in the last year – twice the 3.7 billion figure of 2012.
Around £103m was brought in over the past 12 months by subscription services – up £26m on the previous year.