Smartphones: is there anything they can’t do? Phone, camera, music player, portable console, the list of jobs your mobile can take on is an impressive one, and you can now add optometrist to the list too. Well, not quite – but your smartphone can be used to gather the data your optometrist needs to work out if you need glasses or not. It’s the brainchild of US startup Blink, which
Nvidia has lifted the curtain on what you’ll need to run the upcoming PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight – and like the angsty caped crusader himself the requirements are fairly demanding. A scan of the recommended system requirements reveals that you’ll need at least an Intel Core i7-3370 CPU/AMD FX-8350, 8GB of RAM and at least an Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 to play the game as its maker intended.
Details of the LG G4 have been leaking out left, right and center – today we managed to get our first inkling of the price, and it’s not good news. According to South Korean carriers SK Telecom and T World Direct it’s going to cost around the $825 mark – in the US that’s in between the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge It gets a little more complicated for
It’s 10 years to the day since the first clip (“Me at the Zoo”) was uploaded on YouTube, and the service – now owned by Google Inc – has dominated online video-sharing ever since. Facebook Inc said on Wednesday that its users were watching 4 billion videos a day, compared with 3 billion in January and just 1 billion in September. Almost all analysts saw video advertising as one of
By Se Young Lee SEOUL, (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics has pulled out all the stops on its new Galaxy smartphones, but their modest prices compared to the latest iPhones throw an uneasy spotlight on the long-term cost of fighting Apple’s premium branding. The 64-gigabyte model of the Galaxy S6 edge costs $290.45 to make, according to IHS Technology. For the price of producing 100 sets of this S6 edge model,
Nasdaq OMX Group said on Thursday it set aside $31 million for ongoing litigation arising from the bungled $16 billion initial public offering of Facebook Inc on its U.S. stock exchange in May 2012. The reserve is intended to cover the estimated amount of a settlement of class-action litigation initiated on behalf of investors in Facebook common stock on the date of its IPO, the company said in a filing
By Phil Stewart REDWOOD CITY, California (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is due to unveil an updated cyber strategy on Thursday that will stress the military’s ability to retaliate with cyber weapons, a capability he hopes will help deter attacks. The strategy presents a potentially far more muscular role for the U.S. military’s cyber warriors than the Pentagon was willing to acknowledge in its last strategy rollout in
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – If customers of Germany’s Harting Group, a maker of industrial plugs and sockets, want bespoke products, they can buy them — if they’re prepared to assemble them from a kit themselves. Volker Franke, the head of Harting’s assembly systems and machine tools business, is working hard to change that. Harting is one of a growing number of German firms investing in software, fearing their
Drivers have gotten a break this year with cheap gas, but the lower cost of fuel is an even bigger boon for automakers with big trucks and SUVs to sell. And nobody may be benefiting more than General Motors.
About 25% more liquefied national gas exports will hit the world market by 2020, and this will transform the energy market, predict CEOs at CERAWeek.
