Tips, tricks, unicorns and frippery Welcome to the relaunched of 7 days in phones as Keitai (the Japanese for phone culture) – where instead of telling you what’s already happened, we’ll be bringing you weekly tips to get the most out of your phone as well as trawling the archives of phone-related nonsense and checking in with our favourite cyborg unicorn. 5 tips to improve your smartphone battery life 1.
By Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) – Google Inc’s self-driving cars will begin testing on public roads this summer, but it turns out they will have steering wheels and brakes, which is not what the company envisioned a year ago. Engineers will operate 25 prototype vehicles designed by Google, which use the same software as Google’s Lexus RX450h sport utility vehicles that have already self-driven about 10,000 miles (16,093 km) a
Citrix is ready to take on the packed Internet of Things sector as part of the interestingly named Project Octoblu that will help save enterprise users time when using virtual workspaces. The company’s aspirations in the IoT sector comes in the form of a cloud-hosted software platform to handle devices and the first such peripheral to work in collaboration with the platform is the Citrix Workspace Hub, according to V3.
The Xperia Z4 has only just broken cover but we already have our first look at what could be the Xperia Z5 – and it’s quite a departure for Sony in the design department. The leak comes courtesy of serial tipster @upleaks, so it has some weight and respectability attached to it, and is accompanied by the simple caption “Sony Lavender”. That’s the first time we’ve heard that name and
A flexible robot arm, aimed at improving surgical operations and filled with coffee granules, has been constructed by scientists in Italy. The 14-centimetre-long tentacle has no rigid inner skeleton. Instead, it has a central tube with chambers that can be pumped full of air to varying degrees to lengthen or bend the arm in different directions. In the middle of the tube is an additional chamber filled with coarse-ground coffee.
The US department of energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has joined the group of organisations claiming they can fabricate graphene on a large scale. Graphene is something of a wonder material – it’s stronger, lighter and more conductive than almost anything else we know. But while it’s easy to make in small batches, it’s a pain to make in bulk. For years, various groups have claimed that they’ve cracked a
Intel has agreed a deal with eASIC to develop a new breed of customised Xeon chip designed for specific workloads like security and big data that can cut the time-to-market for chips in half. The collaboration is part of Intel’s plan to get reprogrammable technology inside its Xeon processors and bring a greater level of performance and power at a more competitive price level. In order to bring that new
Introduction It’s become second nature to most smartphone or tablet users to have a personal hotspot option as standard in order to share their super-fast 4G wireless internet connection with other devices at any time. Things get a bit harder, however, if you try to achieve the same thing with a Windows 7 or 8.1 PC. Many people may ask why, in this age of affordable home internet connections and
Without any HDR content to play with you might be feeling a little glum about your sexy new Samsung SUHD TV right now. But worry ye not, potentially as early as next month the Korean tech giant is going to be putting together a new UHD Video Pack to compliment its new televisions. Samsung’s latest range of 4K TVs – the Samsung UE65JS9500 and UE65JS9000 in particular – have been
By Dan Levine and Lawrence Hurley SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has been locked in internal wrangling over what position to take in high profile litigation between two American technology giants, Google and Oracle, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. It faces an end-of-May deadline to decide whether to take sides in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will have wide implications for the
