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Gravity. More than the name of a killer movie, it’s likely something we take for granted every single day. After all, nearly everything we do is reliant on the idea that stuff stays in place when we stop holding it. Astronauts don’t have that luxury, however, and when even simple tasks t
Square Enix announced its aim to deliver “revolutionary” cloud-based gaming with Shinra Technologies, a newly launched subsidiary helmed by Yoichi Wada, the former president of the Japanese publisher. Cutely named after the company in Final Fantasy 7, Shinra’s goal is to “cha
Not bothered about the new iPhones? After something with a big screen and Android at its heart? Well, that’s what Samsung’s Galaxy Note family is all about, and the company has announced the latest member of the clan will be hitting the UK October 10th, a weekbefore the US. The super-siz
Just yesterday thanks to a sighting on China’s TENAA website, the Samsung SM-A500 was sighted. Well now thanks to the folks at SamMobile, they have not only managed to get their hands on some photos, but have possibly revealed the handset’s name in the process. The device is apparently called the Sa
Telefónica sealed its deal to buy Vivendi’s Brazilian unit GVT for about €7.24 billion ($9.3 billion), cementing the Spanish telecommunications giant’s position in Latin America’s largest market. GVT’s sale comes after two years of transformation at France’s Vivendi, wh
The oft-troubled Tizen platform from Samsung – seemingly in perpetual limbo between ‘coming soon’ and ‘probably not’ – has received yet another ray of hope in light of the recently cancelled Samsung Z project. Reports out of India indicate that Samsung is planning
A new patent filing by BlackBerry reveals the company is possibly preparing to manufacture a smartphone with touchscreen and a physical QWERTY keyboard. This is not a reincarnation of the Torch, but a new device that has a “storable keyboard with a pivoting cover.” The patent, filed June 14th, 2012
Earlier this year at CES 2014, Intel unveiled an interesting looking device which was a bowl that offered wireless charging. It was a unique idea since instead of finding an outlet to charge our phones or devices, we can just drop it into the bowl, much like you would with your set of keys and [&hel
Good as robots are at repeating the same motion over and over, they can’t adapt to situations nearly as well as good ‘old flesh-and-bones. That’s where MIT’s new fingertip sensor comes in. The technology employed to make a robot version of our fingertips is sophisticated, but
Netflix has completed a busy week in Europe after launching its video streaming service in Belgium and Luxembourg. These launches follow its hotly-anticipated arrival in France, and launches in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland earlier this week and are part of its ambitious European expansion progr
Sony recently sold off its VAIO PC business and it isn’t the only one struggling. Toshiba on Thursday announced its own plans to restructure its PC segment and, along with it, a round of layoffs. Toshiba said it plans to refocus on business-to-business (B2B) sales, which it said is still profitable,
Just this year we’ve seen open data give rise to recreations of Denmark in Minecraft, the ability to compare cities at the same scale and also collections of geo-mapped tweets and traffic lights. But what about a practical application for all of that info, one that has a more tangible benefit
