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

Motorola launched its new Moto G4 Plus smartphone, which has a 5.5-inch display. Here is a quick comparison of the latest Motorola handset with the Lenovo Zuk Z1. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

U.S. network operator T-Mobile is now offering three Android Marshmallow-powered handsets – the LG K10, the Samsung Galaxy J7 and the HTC 10. The devices are now available for purchase from the carrier’s website. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The purported Asus ZenFone 3 just surfaced on AnTuTu with powerful specs in tow, including a Snapdragon 820 processor, 4 GB of RAM, a 23-megapixel rear camera and more. Asus will unveil its ZenFone 3 series on May 30. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Mike Butcher Let’s face it. Some tech conferences have lost their way. While TechCrunch Disrupt remains a firmly curated, media-driven, event, with hundreds of journalists attending, a couple of other conferences have really gone for scale. A minimum of 15,000 people, thousands of companies, echoing halls — and a lot of investors (and journalists)…

Google has announced Daydream – a VR platform – during the 2016 Google I/O. Samsung, LG, HTC and more mobile device manufacturers are reportedly developing Daydream VR-ready smartphones. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Devin Coldewey For all their being motion-enabling platforms, wheelchairs are themselves rather static. A frame of steel and aluminum supporting foam-filled leather or plastic, with a handful of settings that may or may not accommodate the user’s specific condition. A London design firm has worked for two years to create an alternative: a 3D-printed…

By John Biggs Bummer, dude! That’s what you say when you find out that your whole keg of Heiney is totally skunked but it doesn’t matter because you’ll totally still drink it after you finish the pony keg of Sammo’s Irish Red. But what if I told you that folks in Spain have figured out…

By Jay Donovan This week I ended up with an advance copy of Influence Central’s new report called Kids & Tech: The Evolution of Today’s Digital Natives. The report details the way kids are using technology and reveals some interesting insights including that the average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now…

By Fitz Tepper Having spent a good deal of time flying UAVs like DJI’s Inspire 1 and Phantom 4, I like to consider myself experienced with drones. So when I came across Horizon Hobby’s Vortex 250 Pro racing drone, I didn’t think twice that it was labeled for “the experienced pilot”. I thought I’d take…