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ODG’s new R-7 HL goggles. Osterhout Design Group (ODG) announced a new pair of wearable googles aimed at hazmat workers. Dubbed the R-7 HL, ODG says the googles are a ruggedized enhancement of the its existing R-7 glasses built to withstand “Hazardous Location” certifications. The ruggedness certifications include drop, shock, vibration, splash, dust and temperature extremes, as well as safeguards for potential explosive environments. The R-7 HL’s […]

Being able to interact with mobile phones and other smart devices using gestures with our hands and fingers in three dimensions would make the digital world more like the real one. A new project will help develop this next-generation interface. (via WSJ)

In this Monday, April 3, 2017, photo, Tim Berners-Lee poses outside his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, is this year’s recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, computing’s version of the Nobel Prize. The honor comes with a $1 million prize funded by Google, one of many companies that made a fortune […]

A company in Sweden is tapping on a relatively new technology to give their employees the ability to do things with just a wave of the hand. The technology also has the potential to track what employees do. Swedish company Epicenter offers to implant its workers with microchip the size of a grain of rice. Injecting the microchip that functions as swipe card for opening doors and […]

Imagination Technologies lost more than half its market value in a single day this week when the chip designer revealed that Apple, its largest customer, was developing its own version of the graphical processing units in which the UK-based group has specialised. Apple’s initiative to make a GPU, however, should not have come as such as surprise to investors. It follows several months of intensive recruitment by […]

Mobile phones have increasingly become the repository for the details that drive our everyday lives. But researchers have recently discovered that the same apps we regularly use on our phones to organize lunch dates, make convenient online purchases, and communicate the most intimate details of our existence have secretly been colluding to mine our information. (via WSJ)

Dubai, UAE – April 3, 2017  BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) today shared new details on its broad licensing strategy which addresses the growing need for secure, connected devices and endpoints in today’s Enterprise of Things.   The first phase of BlackBerry’s strategy, announced in September 2016, was focused on providing the most secure and comprehensive Android software for smartphones around the world manufactured and marketed […]

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Journalism has a trust problem. In the run-up to the 2016 election, a Gallup poll revealed Americans’ trust in the press had sunk to an all-time low, with just 32 percent surveyed they felt “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in the mainstream media. Whether it’s criticism from the Trump administration, the failure of the media to correctly forecast the outcome of the 2016 […]

Bahrain’s King Hamad on Monday approved a constitutional amendment granting military courts the right to try civilians accused of terrorism, state news agency BNA said. The amendment, approved unanimously by the upper house of parliament last month, drops a clause limiting military trials to members of the armed forces or other security branches. It does not specify what constitutes an act of terrorism. The Sunni-ruled kingdom has […]

The much touted Samsung Bixby smart assistant is exclusive to the latest Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ flagships, but it has already been unofficially ported to older handsets as well. Samsung introduced its new Bixby assistant last month, before the actual unveiling of the Galaxy S8 flagship series. The company promises a “fundamentally different” experience with Bixby as it’s not just another assistant similar to Siri, Cortana or Google […]

Self-described “body hacker” Jowan Osterlund from Biohax Sweden, holds a small microchip implant, similar to those implanted into workers at the Epicenter digital innovation business centre during a party at the co-working space in central Stockholm, Tuesday March 14, 2017. Microchips are being implanted into volunteers to help them open doors and operate office equipment, and its become so popular that members of the Epicentre cyborg club […]

Samsung’s DeX is one of the best mobile PC solutions I have seen to date. For years, I’ve wanted a portable device as powerful as my PC that I could attach to a monitor or TV while on the go for easy access to productivity tools. Companies like Motorola and Asus have developed products that use a smartphone as the […]

One can count on smart and witty astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to throw someone a playful challenge every time. Take, for instance, his message for SpaceX founder Elon Musk during an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit Sunday. When asked about the recent Falcon 9 mission (its historic blastoff into space carrying a SES-9 satellite) and whether he would ever consider going to Mars via the Musk-owned company, […]

When Nicole Dahmen opened her Sunday paper early last month, she found something she wasn’t expecting. On Feb. 12, The (Eugene, Oregon) Register-Guard announced the start of an ongoing editorial project on homelessness. “Living in the Northwest, living in the West Coast, living in Eugene, homelessness is the problem,” said Dahmen, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. The […]

DUBAI // Drones fitted with facial recognition cameras and software programmed to recognise an individual’s voice in Arabic are some of the technologies that police may use to fight crime. At the Emirates International Forensic Conference and Exhibition in Dubai yesterday, experts from around the world spoke about finding criminals and scouring crime scenes for evidence with the use of technological and scientific advances. Capt Mohammed Al […]

As aged care service providers come to terms with legislative changes that provide consumers with greater choice, Thomas Holt is forging ahead with its digital transformation initiative to improve the quality of life for residents, drive efficiencies for care workers, and differentiate itself in the market. Earlier this year, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise announced it was providing Thomas Holt Aged Care with a network and communications infrastructure upgrade that […]

Three friends jumped from the top of Princess Tower, the tallest residential tower in the UAE, according to a video posted by xDubai. The video shows three friends – Noah Bahnson, Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen – taking the plunge from top of the 414-metre high tower on Friday. The jump was, in fact, supervised by xDubai, a company licensed to undertake extreme stunts in the emirate. […]

Image: Kharnagy I’ve never seen a topic in IT become so popular, so fast, while so many people in the field still have only a vague idea of what it is and how it can help them. DevOps promises that it will change the way businesses run their technology stack–shedding old ways of operating that were once efficient, but are now holding back the enterprise. When you […]

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) on Sunday said 700 more taxis will get interactive screens and offer free Wi-Fi to passengers. The second phase takes the total number of cabs to 1,314, which is equivalent to 26 percent of Dubai Taxi Corporation’s (DTC) total fleet. Dr Yousef Mohammed Al Ali, chief executive officer, DTC, said that adding 700 taxis under phase II further promotes the transport […]

Huaqiangbei electronics market in downtown Shenzhen is a gadget geek’s paradise, selling everything from individual semiconductor chips to roll-up drum kits to hoverboards. For some, it is also the culprit for the declining fortunes of US wearable tech companies such as GoPro and Fitbit. “[Their] problem essentially is Shenzhen,” says Richard Windsor, founder of independent research company Radio Free Mobile. “It makes much cheaper cameras that are […]

The Project Zero Prize sought bugs that gave an remote code execution on multiple Android devices when only the phone number and email address of the target device were known. Image: Laurent Delhourme, Getty Images/iStockphoto Google’s Project Zero bug-hunting group hoped that launching a special six-month hacker prize with a top payout of $200,000 would uncover novel remote code execution (RCE) attacks on Android. However, the prize […]

An iPhone nearly killed a man who fell asleep while his phone was still charging. He was admitted to a hospital with second and third-degree burns to his neck and hands. Wiley Day, from Alabama, was almost killed by electrocution on March 23. He said that his metal dog tags slipped between the charger and the extension cord while he was asleep. Man Survives After Electrocution Day was […]

Samsung Galaxy S8. Photo by Michael Krigsman. Samsung’s Unpacked launch party this week for the long-awaited Galaxy S8 phone was a gadget lover’s dream. From the bright screen to its waterproof body, the phone is exciting. Although the Galaxy S8 and its larger brother/sister, the S8+, have received a lot of attention, one enterprise showpiece is a new docking station called the DeX Station , which is […]

One major feature of the Samsung Galaxy S line that we have seen in place since 2010 is the physical home button. On the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, that button has been removed and this trend may continue with the next Apple iPhone. The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event in New York City last week was very exciting and I enjoyed the opportunity to try out the […]

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