By Frederic Lardinois Every year at I/O, Google’s ATAP division, which is responsible for turning some of the company’s crazier ideas into products, organizes its own small keynote. This year, the company offered updates on a number of projects, including Project Soli, its attempt at building a very small radar sensor that can translate hand…

By Sarah Perez At Google’s I/O conference today, Google’s Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) research unit offered an update on its interactive textiles project announced last year, Project Jacquard. ATAP’s Ivan Poupyrev announced that the company was collaborating with iconic clothing company, Levi’s, to launch a connected jacket aimed at urban cyclists that… Read…

By Desire Athow The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s nearly two years after Seagate first announced its model. The drive sports a 7200RPM spinning speed, 128MB…

By Desire Athow The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s nearly two years after Seagate first announced its model. The drive sports a 7200RPM spinning speed, 128MB…

By Desire Athow Businesses spend countless hours trying to figure out how to improve the productivity of their workers even by a fraction of a percent. That’s because every single process that can be tweaked, every second that can be shaved and every step that can be finetuned brings tangible benefits in terms of overall…

By Desire Athow Businesses spend countless hours trying to figure out how to improve the productivity of their workers even by a fraction of a percent. That’s because every single process that can be tweaked, every second that can be shaved and every step that can be finetuned brings tangible benefits in terms of overall…

By Mike Jennings Introduction Nvidia has wowed the computing world with its new GeForce GTX 1080: a monster graphics card that promises a 30% performance increase over the last generation while reducing power consumption by 28%. They’re stunning numbers, but the GTX 1080 comes with another big headline figure: its launch price of £619 (around…

By Mike Jennings Introduction Nvidia has wowed the computing world with its new GeForce GTX 1080: a monster graphics card that promises a 30% performance increase over the last generation while reducing power consumption by 28%. They’re stunning numbers, but the GTX 1080 comes with another big headline figure: its launch price of £619 (around…

By Jordan Crook For me, fitness trackers are all about motivation. I used to go for a run every single day, and then quit, and then went to yoga every single day, and then I did nothing every single day. Now, a little older and a little more sore, I find myself worried less about…

By Haje Jan Kamps One of the biggest challenges of a hardware crowdfunding campaign is delivering in a timely fashion. Indiegogo knows that better than most, and is teaming up with Arrow Electronics to help entrepreneurs deliver products. The move is continuing the crowdfunding platform’s hard push to beat Kickstarter as the go-to platform for…

By Natasha Lomas The NTIA has published best practice privacy guidelines for the use of commercial and non-commercial drones to gather personally identifiable data. The guidance was agreed by all the various stakeholders involved, including drone companies, consumer privacy groups and news organizations. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

BlackBerry’s upcoming Android devices, code-named ‘Hamburg’ and ‘Rome,’ are rumored to see release dates this year. In fact, GFXBench just released a leak of the Hamburg’s specs, revealing the device is indeed packing mid-range features. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By John Biggs Purism, proud makers of one of the first truly open laptops, is moving into the world of pro-level tablets. Their latest product, the Librem 11, is a tablet that runs any GNU/Linux version (they recommend the ultra-secure Qubes) and can double as a laptop. The company made waves with their 15 and…

Samsung announced a powerful new 6 GB LPDDR4 DRAM made using the 10-nm process, and it could grace the Galaxy Note 6 later this year. The new DRAM should be notably more power-efficient, thus helping extend battery performance. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

HTC’s flagship smartphone has been released in the U.S. We give you a low-down on the pricing of the HTC 10 to help you decide which U.S. carrier is offering the best deal. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones