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The smartphone that could last a week thanks to a 10,000mAh battery

Would you trade in a bit of your smartphone’s lightness and thinness in return for some extra battery life? Oukitel thinks you will if prototype images spotted on the web are anything to go by. The Chinese manufacturer is said to be working on a phone that sports a whopping 10,000mAh battery. The indications are that you could go a whole week between charges with this beast. These leaked pictures

Week in Gaming: The best-looking game at E3 was barely in colour, let alone 3D

Right now I’m sat here trying to think of an E3 that was as exciting as 2015’s has turned out to be – and I’m struggling. This week has seen some incredible showcases, a lot of promising footage, and totally allayed fears that the biggest surprises had been outed the week prior. But the dust is now settling and everyone is picking out their highlights from the show. Yes, the

Is the internet drowning in photos?

Introduction and automated identification Photos are the life-blood of the digital age – we used smartphones and cameras to take 880 billion photos in 2014, but how do we find what we need? With 670 million photos uploaded to Flickr in 2014 and with Instagram receiving 70 million per day, what sorts the wheat from the chaff? Software, that’s what – there are algorithms emerging that can categorise, sort and

Investors eye improvements in data for housing stocks

On Monday, the National Association of Realtors is expected to report strong growth in existing home sales for May. On Wednesday, Lennar (LEN.N), the No. 2 U.S. homebuilder is expected to report that it had a strong second quarter. U.S. permits for future home construction surged to a near eight-year high in May, a sign of a buildup of momentum, but housing starts fell. Broadly, shares of housing stocks have

Greece may offer more in debt talks as clock ticks

Back from a visit to Russia, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet his negotiating team in Athens and may speak to European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker by phone to try to break the deadlock before an emergency summit on Monday. With nervy depositors pulling billions out of Greek banks, Athens may have to impose capital controls within days to staunch the flow. While Greece has dug in its heels over

Exclusive: Advanced Micro Devices mulling breakup, spinoff: sources

The review highlights Chief Executive Lisa Su’s determination to consider every possible option to turn the company around. Su, however, who took over as CEO last October, judged that there is merit for the company to at least consider such a possibility again, the people added. AMD, which has a market capitalization of around $2 billion, has competed with much larger Intel since the 1980s, and at times has made