Some Simple Software Could Help Charge Your Phone in Minutes Not Hours
A startup called Qnovo is developing software that constantly monitors and adjusts the flow of power into a battery of a phone during charging.
A startup called Qnovo is developing software that constantly monitors and adjusts the flow of power into a battery of a phone during charging.
It sounds fun but dangerous, like a computer game made real — which is why Tom Scott decided to try it out in real life.
In many ways, it's a wonderful idea: a wealth of data, available to physicians to use as and when they need, from wherever they are.
Twitter has disclosed some specific numbers about how many of its users are bots. In fact, as of June, it was a fairly staggering 23 million — or about 8.5 per cent of the entire user base.
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Cyber security is vital in our modern digital world, but it's not ruled entirely by traditional computing techniques.
Why bother having to learn HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, CSS and XML, when you could just learn one?
These days, there's a connector for almost everything: if it's not MagSafe 2 it's that weird USB connector or RCA or who knows what else. Wouldn't it be amazing if there was a single converter box to interconnect them all?
As you'd presumably hope for from a camera that shoots 4K video at 60 fps, the footage is rich, fluid and... well, just watch it.
Two universities in Japan have unveiled a new a camera that's 1,000 times faster than the previous best.
Divers retrieve NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator — that's a flying saucer to you and me — off the coast of the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii following its successful test on June 28th. [NASA]
Deep within the bowels of Apple, there's a secretive school where its employees learn about the company and how to work for it.
Dining on alien planets might be a way off, but at least when we do there will be salad — because we've already developed the means to grow lettuce on other worlds.
These smart building blocks are made of flexible plastic and stuffed with fluidics channels and electronics, designed to build simple, adaptable robots in double-quick time.
The World Health Organisation has declared the Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency — though it is currently not recommending bans on travel or trade.
The concept of offering access to apps or content in return for Likes is to be banned by Facebook imminently.
