Low-cost Microsoft Lumia 830 variant could be in the works
The new model is expected to feature an 8.7-megapixel PureView camera. Microsoft’s low-end Lumia lineup has seen a couple of new entries in the past few weeks, and it looks like the Redmond giant is now looking at expanding the mid-range Windows Phone segment with a cheaper alternative to the Lumia 830. Spotted in AdDuplex,...
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Mozilla aims to bring VR to the web
Mozilla has added virtual reality support for their nightly and developer releases of Firefox. Last year, an experimental build of Mozilla’s Firefox browser included support for web-based virtual reality apps using the Oculus Rift VR headset. Now, support has been included in the nightly and developer editions of the browser as well. Mozilla’s Josh Carpented...
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Google sent WikiLeaks staff emails and more to FBI
Nearly three years ago, Google sent the FBI emails, internet activity and more from WikiLeaks staff members. Google has revealed, after nearly three years, that it was responsible for sending emails and other digital information from three staff members at the free information group WikiLeaks to the US Government under a warrant secretly issued by...
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New Horizons to begin taking photos of Pluto today
Today, the New Horizons space probe is close enough to Pluto, to begin taking the first photographs of the mysterious dwarf planet. In 2006, an Atlas V rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, carrying a 500kg space probe called New Horizons. Its mission would be to fly to Pluto, the...
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Alleged HTC One M9 camera samples leak
The images were taken at 16-megapixel resolution on an HTC device. Like the One M8 last year, HTC seems to be having a hard time keeping its newest flagship under wraps. We’ve seen the HTC One M9 in a couple of leaked images, and its alleged spec sheet has also cropped up online in the last week...
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Our most popular cars have fake engine noise
More and more car manufacturers are secretly enhancing engine noise on their cars using pipes or speakers. A few years ago, car manufacturers came up with the fun feature of adding artificial engine noise to small cars to make them sound like a sports car to the driver. Then, Toyota added an artificial engine noise...
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Apple hopes to introduce P2P sharing
Apple has a new patent which will allow you to distribute music between friends and family, but also may restrict which devices you can play the files on. Apple has just obtained a new patent which may come to change how iTunes distributes it’s content. Currently, when you buy a song from iTunes, you are...
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Scientists successfully extend lifespan of human cells
Scientists at Stanford University have found a way to extend telomeres, the protective caps at the end of our chromosomes which are linked to both disease and aging itself. Telomeres are protective caps which sit at the end of our chromosomes and are directly linked to aging. They were discovered in the 70’s and could...
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Apple Watch may not impress with its battery life
The Apple Watch is certainly one of the most eagerly awaited smartwatch launches of the year. Announced at Apple’s Keynote in September last year, the Apple Watch is expected to go on sale in a few weeks’ time. A new report published by 9To5Mac recently gives us some new information on the first Apple smartwatch,...
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 brings Maxwell to the masses with its $199 price tag
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is finally official. The mid-range card is quite an impressive beast and offer fantastic value for money to gamers looking for a capable GPU in a budget that allows them to play games in 1080p resolution at 60fps. The GeForce GTX 960 is based on the latest Maxwell architecture...
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Preliminary Samsung Galaxy S6 specs leak online
The leaked specs might just be what will be featured on Samsung’s next big thing. Samsung’s flagship smartphones are the least prone to being fully leaked weeks (or even months) ahead of their official announcement, but it seems that when it comes to the Galaxy S6, the Korean manufacturer might just have failed to maintain...
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Dropbox is ending support for OS X 10.5
Its notifying users a couple of months beforehand. There are still a lot of users out there running older builds of Mac. One of the biggest reason for this is hardware incompatibility. Some older Mac machines are not compatible with the more recent builds of the desktop software so that’s as far as users can...
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Intel CEO puts up brave face against possibility of ARM-based Macs
Says he’s not worried about Apple making the switch. For its mobile devices Apple uses custom ARM processors but for Macs it has to rely on Intel. For long Intel has provided the crucial component for Apple computers but could there be a day when this relationship will come to an end? Famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo certainly seems...
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Not all about M9: HTC also tipped to bring Desire 626 to MWC
Think of it as a slightly improved Desire 620. It’s only been a couple of weeks since HTC brought out the upper mid-tier Desire 826 at CES in Las Vegas, and roughly a month and a half since the decidedly mid-end Desire 620 was announced. Yet the Taiwanese are at it again, prepping another mediocre...
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Don’t write off Snapdragon 810 chip, as Qualcomm likely fixed overheating
It’s still unlikely all Samsung Galaxy S6 variants will be Snapdragon-powered, but most should do without Exynos. The love story between Samsung and Qualcomm is on the verge of turning into a genuine soap opera, with financial analysts now suggesting the two may have patched up their recent discords. Pre-production troubles for the latter’s next-gen...
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Windows 10 to be available as free upgrade for 7 and 8.1 users
For once, Microsoft is smart to take a page from Apple’s playbook. Change was the word du jour yesterday in the command post of a certain Redmond-based tech giant, as Microsoft held its most exciting press event in ages. Details, small and large, regarding Windows 10, the biggest leap in the platform’s history, flew from...
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WhatsApp officially comes to the web
WhatsApp can now be accessed from the web through a few simple steps. WhatsApp on a PC. That is something a lot of users have been wishing for since a long time, but it’s something the Facebook-owned company has refused to offer to the millions of folks that are using its service. But there have...
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iPhone sales register significant growth in Asian markets
Those larger displays did the trick. For long the market had been waiting on Apple to respond to its rivals who had switched to larger displays. Until the iPhone 5s Apple stuck with its tried and tested display size of 4-inches. That changed with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. These smartphones came with 4.7-inch...
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First Apple Watch game mockup
Here’s what games look like on the Apple Watch. It has been a few months since Apple opened up the WatchKit API to developers so that they can start building their apps and games. However not much has been seen up till now and one of the major reasons behind that is the fact that...
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X rumored to retail for $1,349 with 12GB VRAM
NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce GTX Titan X GPU is reportedly going to be priced at a hefty $1,349. This was revealed Chinese website Expreview. It should be noted that the first images of the GM-200 based graphics card were first revealed in a leak recently on China’s Baidu forum. The GM200 is believed to be the...
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