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Samsung is planning to release an update that will prevent all Galaxy Note 7 units in the United States from charging. The company is looking to force owners still holding on to the recalled smartphones to have the devices replaced. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By John Biggs Open source laptops — ones not running any commercial software whatsoever — have been the holy grail for free software fans for years. Now, with the introduction of libreboot, a truly open source boot firmware, the dream is close to fruition. The $730 laptop is a bog standard piece of hardware but…

By Devin Coldewey Droughts, climate change and deforestation are putting forests at risk worldwide, so studying these ecosystems closely is more important than ever — but it’s a hell of a lot of work to climb every tree in the Sierra Nevada. Drones and advanced imaging, however, present an increasingly practical alternative to that, as…

By Parker Wilhelm Pokémon Go may not be the all-encompassing sensation today that it was when it launched this summer, but the folks at Niantic are far from done with the real-world monster catcher. In what we can only describe as “the most millennial thing,” the augmented-reality craze is officially teaming up with Starbucks, turning…

To counter Apple’s Jet Black iPhone 7 Plus, Samsung is about to launch a new Galaxy S7 Edge. The company is expected to announce the Pearl Black Galaxy S7 Edge with 128 GB of internal storage on Dec. 9. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Lora Kolodny Hardware kits, internet-connected toys and robots that teach kids to code are now commonplace. But Osmo, an early entrant in IoT toys, is pulling ahead of the pack with funding and partnerships with top names in the field. Specifically, Osmo has raised $24 million in new venture funding from Mattel, Houghton Mifflin…

By John Biggs Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network. Estimote, a beacon company, has given us the last thing by creating a small mesh network of wireless beacons that they proceed to hang on a Christmas tree. The new beacons…

By Darrell Etherington AMD’s big graphics software update this year is called Crimson ReLive, and comes in both Pro and standard formats. The annual huge improvement dump adds a lot of oomph under the hood for Radeon graphics hardware, including performance increases of over 8 percent in terms of specific title gaming performance on the…

By Darrell Etherington Building hardware with Alexa included is likely a smart way to go, given interest in Amazon’s voice assistant, but it’s also hard to do well. Consumer electronics industry supplier Conexant is looking to make the early stages of the process easier with a new development kit designed to provide accurate voice recognition…

By Brendan Griffiths Wow, that’s a seriously cheap PS4 bundle. Our friends over at GamesRadar have teamed up with Zavvi to create a bundle that saves the day if you’re still looking for that money-saving PS4 Slim bundle in time for Christmas. The deal is this: use the voucher code GAMESRADAR at the checkout to…

By Darren Allan Qualcomm has announced the Centriq 2400, noting that it’s the first server CPU in the world to be built on a 10nm process, and one that could be a worry for Intel and indeed AMD, particularly given other recent developments in terms of Qualcomm hooking up with Microsoft over Windows and ARM.…

By John Biggs Like most of us, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology had always wondered why dogs had wet noses. Further, they wondered why they could sense vapors better, allowing them to sniff out bombs, drugs, and even cancer. They tested the second question by 3D printing a dog’s nose including…

By Devin Coldewey We’re all curious to see whether Light’s crazy 16-lens camera can live up to its own hype, but it looks like we’ll have to wait just a little bit longer for the already-delayed gadget. On the bright side, so to speak, the camera is getting a significant improvement to its many lenses’…

By Devin Coldewey Smart contact lenses have been the stuff of science fiction for a long time, but as with jetpacks and faster-than-light travel, we’re still waiting on them. Research is ongoing, though, and a project at the University of Ghent shows promise not just in advancing the technology but providing some therapeutic value, as…

By Devin Coldewey Pebble has had a long, one might say rocky road. As one of the earliest and biggest crowdfunding successes, it showed the potential and perils of hardware startups that were increasingly having to scale from back-of-napkin idea to a global operation almost overnight. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets