By Darrell Etherington Airborne drone delivery is still more PR than public reality, but wheeled, self-driving delivery bots could be trundling down a sidewalk near you sooner than you think. London-based Starship Technologies, which counts Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis among its founding team, is launching a broad testing phase of its autonomous…

HTC and Google are believed to have partnered on two new upcoming Nexus smartphones. An image of the design has been published and provides a closeup look at the device. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darrell Etherington If you’ve ever had to hold a wrench in place for any lengthy of time exerting a decent amount of force, you know it sucks. NASA also knew it sucked, and doubly so when you’re floating in space, so they created the RoboGlove, a battery-powered force-multiplying glove that lets you add some…

By Darrell Etherington Shervin Pishavar’s Hyperloop One recorded another first today, though not one as exciting as making a hunk of metal go really fast in the desert – it created a business case. The business case (via Gizmodo), created in partnership with engineering firm partners and consulting firm KPMG, is meant to walk potential…

Developers have found a method to successfully root the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge. The method was used on the AT&T version of the smartphones, but it can also work for variants of the handset on other U.S. carriers. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The steady decline of the British pound post-Brexit has forced OnePlus to increase the price of its flaghip smartphone, which also suffered delays. Starting on July 11, the OnePlus 3 will cost £20 more in the UK. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darren Allan Usually, if you want to build a compact gaming PC, you’ll need to sacrifice something in the way of power for that portability – but not if Gigabyte has anything to do with it, as the company’s latest Nvidia graphics card offering is a GTX 1070 which is small enough to fit…

By Darren Allan Usually, if you want to build a compact gaming PC, you’ll need to sacrifice something in the way of power for that portability – but not if Gigabyte has anything to do with it, as the company’s latest Nvidia graphics card offering is a GTX 1070 which is small enough to fit…

By Jon Porter It’s hard not to look at the declining sales of handheld consoles and the rise of mobile gaming and not think that the two might be related. However, the lack of buttons on modern smartphones makes them a pretty poor replacement for a dedicated handheld, especially when it comes to faster-paced action…

By Stephen Lambrechts Pokemon GO, Nintendo’s eagerly anticipated augmented reality game for iOS and Android devices, has finally launched on the App Store and Google Play Store, though only those with Australian and New Zealand accounts can access it at the moment. According to a tweet from Takashi Mochizuki, Tokyo tech reporter for The Wall…

By Devin Coldewey Fans of free and open source software are rejoicing today at the news that Bulgaria will now require all software written for the government must be FOSS. But while this is a promising advance, don’t expect a major change in the way things work. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Devin Coldewey NASA believes the children are our future. Why else would it ask them for ideas about how to feed astronauts in 2050? The nationwide “Star Trek Replicator” contest that began in February has spawned hundreds of 3D printable ideas, and the winners have just been announced: a housing for radiation-loving fungi and…

By Nick Pino Gamers begged. Gamers pleaded. Gamers cast 148,578 votes on Xbox.com to make it happen. Now, over a year after Microsoft enabled backwards compatibility on Xbox One, Rockstar Games has announced that it’s bringing one of its most well-loved titles, Red Dead Redemption, to Microsoft’s powerhouse gaming system. Xbox 360 owners will be…

By Brian Heater It’s not always the wisest policy in this fast-moving world of consumer electronics, but as countless competitors pushed past to bring wireless noise cancelling headphones to market, the audio company whose name has long been synonymous with active noise canceling bided its time. Announced among a trio of new products, the QuietComfort…

By Devin Coldewey The Juno probe has just made its long-awaited rendezvous with Jupiter, kicking off 20 months of unprecedented planetary science. We cornered the mission’s principal investigator, Scott Bolton, during a briefing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory — and he was more than happy to talk about all the cool new gadgets packed into…