IFA 2016: the best laptops, tablets, and more
By Jacob Kastrenakes on September 1, 2016 12:01 am Modular devices are in this year, and HP is bringing the trend to the desktop. It’s introducing a new computer called the Elite Slice, which is a crazy and excellent name, and which lets you snap on additional components to add new features to the PC, like speakers or a disc drive. It’s a simple way of making PCs easier to expand and customize after purchase, rather than requiring people to dig inside their case or buy a whole new u..>> view originalGet set for SA's partial solar eclipse
Johanneburg - Skywatchers are in for a treat on the first day of spring as they will be able to catch a glimpse of a solar eclipse. Astronomy educator Claire Flanagan said South Africans could view the pan-African annular solar eclipse for about three hours today.A solar eclipse. File picture: Karen Sandison. Credit: INDEPENDENT MEDIAThe rare event will start at about 9.31am and end at 12.38pm. Sightings will vary from city to city, and the further north you are the bigger the eclipse will be. ..>> view originalSphero's Force Band for BB-8
Obi Wan is long gone, but his voice comes to me nonetheless, reminding me to be patient and asking me to… “Choose my activity?” The voice, an uncanny blend of Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor, is actually emanating from Sphero’s new Force Band, a device that lets you use the force…er…motion and gestures to control the already popular BB-8 by Sphero, a toy robot modeled on Star Wars: The Force Awaken’s scene-stealing BB-8 droid. When I first saw the Force Band nine months ago at CES 2015, it was ..>> view originalLenovo will ditch hard keyboards in planned Chromebook and 2-in-1s
Lenovo's new Yoga Book will be a sleek folding laptop with stunning secrets inside. Opening up the device reveals a big surprise: It has no hard keyboard. The keyboard area instead has a versatile touch panel that turns into a smartphone-like virtual keyboard, a draw pad, or a digital notepad. The new touch input panel, which has a back-lit virtual keyboard, is a big deal for Lenovo. It will be featured in a new line of 2-and-1s and laptops and is Lenovo's ambitious attempt to break a decades-..>> view original'Our living dinosaurs' There are far fewer African elephants than we thought, study shows
"I don't think anybody in the world has seen the number of dead elephants that I've seen over the last two years," he says. From above, we spot an elephant lying on its side in the cracked river mud. From a distance it could be mistaken for a resting animal. He was a magnificent bull right in his prime, 45 to 50 years old. To get at his prized ivory tusks, poachers hacked off his face. Slaughtered for their ivory, the elephants are left to rot, their carcasses dotting the dry riverbed; in just ..>> view originalHP made a modular PC with snap-on DVD drive
Modular devices are in this year, and HP is bringing the trend to the desktop. It’s introducing a new computer called the Elite Slice, which is a crazy and excellent name, and which lets you snap on additional components to add new features to the PC, like speakers or a disc drive. It’s a simple way of making PCs easier to expand and customize after purchase, rather than requiring people to dig inside their case or buy a whole new unit. For now, HP is keeping things pretty basic with the Elite ..>> view original3.7-billion-year-old fossils may be the oldest signs of life on Earth
Australian researchers Allen Nutman and Vickie Bennett hold a 3.7-billion-year-old fossilized stromatolite from Isua, Greenland. (Yuri Amelin) Scientists probing a newly exposed, formerly snow-covered outcropping in Greenland claim they have discovered the oldest fossils ever seen, the remnants of microbial mats that lived 3.7 billion years ago. It's a stunning announcement in a scientific field that is always contentious. But if confirmed, this would push the established fossil record more ..>> view original68 Million Dropbox Accounts Hacked And That's Why You Need To Change Your Password Now
Dropbox recently unveiled that a big chunk of its users' credentials that leaked in 2012 was discovered on the dark web, but the number of affected users was way bigger than initially thought. The company protects its user passwords by hashing and salting them, meaning that hackers who got hold of hashed files belonging to Dropbox's users were unable to crack them. However, sources point out that more information was taken from Dropbox than the company first publicly admitted. Not only did Drop..>> view originalTomTom's new fitness tracker can estimate your body fat and muscle mass
TomTom has announced three new fitness tracking wearables today at IFA. The first one is called the TomTom Touch, and it’s a fairly standard wrist-worn fitness tracker in terms of its design, but it also measures your body fat and muscle mass in addition to the more common stuff like step counting, sleep tracking, and heart rate. The other two are updates to Spark, TomTom’s fitness watch line, which offer much more advanced (and GPS-based) activity tracking. The TomTom Touch is a sleek little f..>> view original
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