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By John Biggs First drones took to the air. Now they take to the sea! The Gladius is basically a remote-controlled submarine with a 4K camera that can dive to 100 meters. A big, yellow double-barreled monster, the beast is controlled via a phone-connected remote and it is semi-tethered, which means it can roll out…

By Darrell Etherington NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is pretty much a non-stop source of amazing things, and the latest is the PUFFER, or Pop-Up Flat Folding Robot. The design of the robot is inspired by origami, and folding is its speciality. The robot can tuck in its wheels and flatten out to fit under…

Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 has leaked again. The Galaxy S8 is placed between the iPhone 7 and Galaxy S7 edge in the leaked image. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Jon Porter You remember Cyanogen OS right? It was an open-source alternative to Android that offered additional features that the stock operating system lacked. However, after becoming popular with Android power-users and seeing itself installed as the default operating system on the OnePlus One and a couple of WileyFox handsets, the OS was folded…

By David Carnoy With its new $80 BackBeat 500 Series, Plantronics is trying to attract younger users with an affordable, stylish on-ear model that undercuts Beats products. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Justin Jaffe Can Apple regain its tablet mojo after years of sagging sales? …read more Source:: cnet Digital Cameras

By Darrell Etherington In the world of Hyperloop, the race is on to see who can produce the first viable commercial system. Hyperloop Transportation technologies announced a key move in its own progress towards that goal on Tuesday: It has begun construction on its first full scale passenger capsule, to be completed and revealed in…

By Darren Allan A 32-core (64-thread) monster CPU from Intel, apparently the Skylake ‘Purley’ flagship, is the subject of the latest leak to emerge in the processor world. Details of the chip were spilled via a Geekbench performance benchmark (as spotted by Wccftech.com), and this is allegedly likely to be the Xeon E5 2699 v5.…

T-Mobile has confirmed that it will kick off the pre-sales of its variant of the LG G6 smartphone from March 22. The carrier has priced the LG G6 for $650 outright and the device will go on sale on April 7. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Jon Porter It’s definitely noticeable from recent firmware updates that we’re over halfway through this console generation. Whereas the Xbox One‘s first three years of updates were spent adding essential functionality (such as external hard drive support), we’ve now hit the stage where the majority of users are catered for, and updates have now…

By Emma Boyle It may be surprising, considering social media and comments sections can make it seem like it doesn’t take much for humanity to collectively lose its mind, but according to a recent study when the world actually does come to an end, we’re all likely to remain fairly calm. The study, conducted by…

By Lori Grunin One of a handful of 38-inch displays, LG’s is also big and curved. What more do you want? …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By John Biggs If music be the food of love then get ready to hit the Old Country Buffet. A wild new startup is about to unleash Populele, an electric Ukulele that will teach you how to play old Uke standards like Ukulele Lady, D’yer Maker, and Tiptoe Through The Tulips. The $149 ukulele has…

Apple could launch an upgraded iPhone SE and a new hue for the iPhone 7 Plus in March. Apple’s online store’s planned maintenance on March 21 has fueled speculations that the devices may launch this week. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Joe Osborne ARM, the name behind the processors within much of our smartphones and tablets, is preparing for the imminent artificial intelligence (AI) revolution with a brand-new chip design. The firm calls it DynamIQ – pronounced “dynamic” – an extension of its existing big.LITTLE architecture. For those who are unfamiliar, big.LITTLE is a processor…