At the Paris Air Show, airline seat manufacturer Thales has been showing off a prototype for a business class seat that knows when its occupant falls asleep. The design uses iris-tracking technology to detect whether your eyes are open or closed, or just if you’re looking away from the screen for a moment. That means that your in-flight entertainment system could pause your movie or turn the screen off if
HP has refreshed its mainstream, aspirational Envy range with a sleeker design and metal surfaces, not unlike its flagship Spectre X360, while managing keep the prices fairly reasonable. AMD’s A10 sixth generation APUs will be used for the cheaper models (which start at £500, about $750, AU$1000) with Intel procuring fifth generation Core i5 and Core i7 for the more expensive models. Customers will be able to choose between the
By Julia Love San Francisco (Reuters) – Nearly 20 percent of Apple Watch buyers are not only shelling out hundreds of dollars for the timepiece but are springing for a spare band too, giving the tech giant a profitable second dip into customers’ wallets, according to data provided exclusively to Reuters. The data from Slice Intelligence, a research firm that mines e-mail receipts, offers a rare window into the money-making
China’s Ant Financial Services Group, e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s internet finance affiliate, closed a private placement valuing the unit at about $45 billion, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday. Ant Financial sold stakes to external investors, including China Development Bank Capital Co and a holding company affiliated with David Yu, the co-founder of Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma’s private equity firm Yunfeng Capital, the person said,
Nokia, once the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, plans to start designing and licensing handsets again once an agreement with partner Microsoft allows it to in 2016, its chief executive told Germany’s Manager Magazin. “We will look for suitable partners,” Rajeev Suri said in an interview published on Thursday. “Microsoft makes mobile phones.
A driver for Uber is an employee, not a contractor, according to a California ruling that eventually could push up costs for the smartphone-based ride hailing service and hurt the closely watched start-up’s valuation. The California Labor Commission’s decision could ripple through the burgeoning industry of providing services via smartphones, with potential implications for other “crowdsourced” services such as Uber rival Lyft, chore service TaskRabbit, and cleaning service Homejoy. The
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s SoftBank Corp said on Thursday that it was setting up a joint venture with Alibaba and Foxconn Technology to sell its human-like robot Pepper to consumers around the world. The robots – which the mobile phone and Internet conglomerate envisions serving as baby-sitters, medical workers or even party companions – are already being used at stores including SoftBank’s own mobile phone shops, but the companies said
U.S. stocks moved higher in early trading Thursday, extending gains a day after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged from historically low levels. Health care stocks were among the biggest …
Shares of Fitbit opened 52 percent above their IPO price, putting it on track to rank among the top 10 stock market debuts of the year.
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