Running with the pros Hello all, it’s another lovely week and yet again I’ve been off training with celebrities. This week it was the delightful Dame Kelly Holmes who offered me some great tips on breaking that dratted 10K time and how Runner G can start battling the demons all new runners get. I also spent some time trying out Moov – sensors that strap to your body to help
At Samsung’s next Unpacked event on 13 August we’re hoping to see the super-sized versions of the company’s flagship phones: the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus. To help pass the time between now and then, cast your eyes over these official renderings of the new handsets, pushed out onto the web by the ever-reliable @evleaks. They don’t tell us anything we didn’t already know but if
Video games tend to get themselves stuck in ruts every now and again. In the 90s, it was cutesy anthropomorphic animals with names, the 2000s brought us wave after wave of generic war-based brown shooters, and now, when games are more advanced and more capable than ever, we have… sad dads. The Sad Dad Is Sad Sad dads is one of my pet peeves. At first, the video game ‘sad
Brain training, reaction improvements and positive thinking apps all claim to help us by giving our little grey cells a workout in some way. But is it really worth poking around in there? Whilst something like the DreamScience Brainwave-Oriented Sleep Companion claims to work using sounds that gently lull our brainwaves into the right “mode”, the question is, what is the advantage in training our brains to be other than
Mark Karpeles, the former head of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was arrested on Saturday in connection with the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency, Japanese media reports said. The French-born Karpeles, 30, is suspected of falsifying data on the outstanding balance of the exchange, at one point the world’s largest hub for trading the digital currency, they added. When it filed for bankruptcy
The Japanese affiliate of Ernst & Young LLC has launched an in-house investigation into its audit of Toshiba Corp in the wake of the electronics maker’s $1.2 billion accounting scandal, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC has established a team of about 20 executives to investigate whether there were any problems with how it conducted its audits of Toshiba, the person said. Last
Much of the hoopla surrounding the Windows 10 launch has been focused on how the operating system will benefit consumers. Today, Toshiba unveiled a range of Windows 10 laptops catered to the small and medium-sized business owner. In addition to standard hardware found on consumer laptops, such as Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, the Tecra 50 range of 15.6-inch Windows 10 laptops comes with a replaceable eight-hour battery that
Intro an Google Cardboard itself Ever since the Oculus Rift exploded onto the scene in 2012, the tech world has been obsessed with virtual reality. But while we’re still waiting, well over three years later, for that particular headset to arrive, mobile virtual reality has happily been filling the gap. The most well-known portable headset is the Samsung Gear VR, which is a collaboration between Oculus and the Korean giant,
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court’s decision to clear Qualcomm Inc in a patent lawsuit by ParkerVision Inc, allowing it to escape a $173 million verdict for infringement. Trading in ParkerVision shares was halted on the Nasdaq after the price fell 50 percent to 23 cents. ParkerVision had accused Qualcomm of infringing its patents beginning in 2006 over a
We know Google Glass 2 is being worked up, and that, at least in its ‘Enterprise Edition’ (EE) form, it’ll be for work and not play, business and not being beaten up in bars. The latest word is that Google is already quietly testing it in workplaces – hey, maybe yours! – and experimenting with how it looks and works. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the new version is
