By Devin Coldewey Twitch announced Monday that users would soon be able to “cheer” their favorite streamers — in the form of expendable emoji purchasable with real-world money. Details were rather scarce so I pressed them — and then, almost certainly unrelated to that, the company provided more details. (It’s a penny per bit.) Read…

The rumored Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 has recently visited GFXBench. The leaked details revealed that it could be equipped with a 3.8-inch display and Android Marshmallow. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Stephen Lambrechts Each month, a new range of free games becomes available to North American, European and Australian Xbox Live subscribers, with users able to download titles across Xbox One and Xbox 360. We suggest you grab these games while they’re free, as you’ll then be able to play them as long as you…

By Kevin Lee SanDisk is breaking new ground with a pair of microSD memory cards with 256GB of storage capacity and lightening quick transfer speeds. First up is the new 256GB Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card, which SanDisk claims to offer read and write speeds up to 100MB/s and at 90MB/s, respectively. If the speeds are…

By Kevin Lee SanDisk is breaking new ground with a pair of microSD memory cards with 256GB of storage capacity and lightening quick transfer speeds. First up is the new 256GB Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card, which SanDisk claims to offer read and write speeds up to 100MB/s and at 90MB/s, respectively. If the speeds are…

By Devin Coldewey The mad roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have produced another biomimetic mechanoid — this one based on the lithe locomotion of the salamander. “Pleurobot” imitates the amphibian’s ambulation with its own articulated vertebrae, allowing it to slither along on land or at sea. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch…

By Haje Jan Kamps Apple knows that the battle for people’s pockets is going to be fought in part in the photography space. With iOS 10, the company is making it even easier to get to the camera in a hurry, but in an effort to remind people that they’re already carrying a great camera…

By Ben Dickson Imagine a washer that autonomously contacts suppliers and places orders when it’s low on detergent, performs self-service and maintenance, and schedules its cycles to take advantage of electricity prices; a connected car, smart enough to find and choose the best deal for parts and services; a manufacturing plant where the machinery knows…

By Devin Coldewey This week is the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Las Vegas, and Google researchers have several accomplishments to present. They’ve taught computer vision systems to detect the most important person in a scene, to pick out and track individual body parts, and to describe what they see in language that…

By Devin Coldewey Evernote is an indispensible tool for many, and the company is always working on making it more so — “but that requires a significant investment of energy, time, and money,” it writes in a new blog post. You know what that means: price hikes. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Matthew Lynley Pinterest today has a new tool for finding things that you might want to buy — and they’ll be things you see in the real world. Here’s how it will work: go to Pinterest search and tap the visual search button, point your camera at anything you’re interested in, and it’ll automatically…

By Brian Heater The folks at Bose are putting a DIY spin on the sometimes staid world for Bluetooth speakers, with a kit designed to show little ones the big wonders of electronics. The Speaker Cube is the first entry in the company’s new BOSEbuild line, featuring all the pieces and step-by-step instructions for building…

By Hugh Langley The worst special edition consoles of all time When it comes to special edition consoles, it’s about a 50/50 split between ‘Pretty nice’ and ‘What the hell were they thinking?’. The new Game of Thrones Xbox One definitely falls into the latter camp. Just feast your eyes on the thing. Not only…

By Hugh Langley The worst special edition consoles of all time When it comes to special edition consoles, it’s about a 50/50 split between ‘Pretty nice’ and ‘What the hell were they thinking?’. The new Game of Thrones Xbox One definitely falls into the latter camp. Just feast your eyes on the thing. Not only…

By John Biggs While I absolutely despise most STEM toys I’m going to give Happy Atoms a pass simply because it is aimed at educators and not for the home market. Created by chemistry set maker Thames & Kosmos along with Pittsburgh-based Schell Games, Happy Atoms teaches kids about building molecules using magnetic atoms that…