By Darrell Etherington Amazon has a new tool for its Kindle Direct Publishing authors, via a new KDP EDU wing of the same aimed at educators and academic institutions. It’s called the Kindle Textbook Creator, and it lets authors prepare electronic textbooks for students, for publication across Fire tablets, Android devices, iPhones and iPads, Mac…

By Dave James Introduction The GPU sweet spot. That’s how Nvidia is referring to its new mid-range Maxwell card, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960. The bare minimum. That’s how we’re going to be referring to it. Nvidia has released the GeForce GTX 960 as the necessary replacement for the last remaining Kepler-based graphics card in…

By Dave James Introduction The GPU sweet spot. That’s how Nvidia is referring to its new mid-range Maxwell card, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960. The bare minimum. That’s how we’re going to be referring to it. Nvidia has released the GeForce GTX 960 as the necessary replacement for the last remaining Kepler-based graphics card in…

By Ben Stinson Introduction and design If you’d looked at the smartphones available on the market available 18 months ago, those with a minimal budget would have had a limited choice consisting of the highly-commended original Motorola Moto G, or a range of low-spec Android handsets from Huawei, Alcatel or Samsung. Following the success of…

By Lily Prasuethsut We’ve been waiting for a Microsoft virtual reality something or other for awhile now and finally during the Windows 10 event, we were introduced to the HoloLens – which apparently is neither VR or even augmented reality but “high definition holograms” according to chief inventor Alex Kipman. But what does that even…

By Lily Prasuethsut We’ve been waiting for a Microsoft virtual reality something or other for a while now and finally, during the Windows 10 event, we were introduced to the HoloLens, which is neither VR or even augmented reality but “high definition holograms” according to Chief Inventor Alex Kipman. But what does that even mean?…

By Alex Wilhelm At an event held for the media at its corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens, a face computer that blends holographs into your world using see-through lenses. After the morning’s keynote wrapped, the company guided the accumulated technology press through a series of demos using non-final hardware and software. And…

By Kyle Russell Despite giving no information about release date, price, or technical specs, Microsoft surprised many tech bloggers today with the announcement of Windows Holographic and the HoloLens, an operating system and headset for augmented reality computing. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Darrell Etherington Microsoft and NASA are teaming up to make remote working on the Red Planet a reality, using the newly announced HoloLens headset, and the Windows Holographic technology that it supports. The platform is called OnSight, and is being developed out of NASA’s Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It uses the Mars Curiosity…

By John Biggs Researchers at North Carolina State University have built a new form of “dry” EKG/EMG sensors that allow doctors to get high-density data on a patient’s heart performance in a package that can be worn for extended periods of time. Traditional EKG sensors require a wet gel layer to be placed down between…

By Gabie Kur Introduction, specs and features Canon’s Maxify MB5320 is the latest installment in the company’s small business hardware designed to bring low-cost printing capabilities to smaller and home offices. This is part of Canon’s push to place a chokehold on the small office/home office (SOHO) market. The MB5320 is a wireless inkjet all-in-one…

By Gabie Kur Introduction, specs and features Canon’s Maxify MB5320 is the latest installment in the company’s small business hardware designed to bring low-cost printing capabilities to smaller and home offices. This is part of Canon’s push to place a chokehold on the small office/home office (SOHO) market. The MB5320 is a wireless inkjet all-in-one…

By Darrell Etherington It was a very Windows day, with Microsoft unveiling lots more about Windows 10, the next generation of its operating system, including how it will work across mobile, tablet, desktop and other platforms. The biggest surprise was probably the new HoloLens augmented reality headset Microsoft created, and the Windows Holographic software it…

By Michael Rougeau Probably the biggest gaming news to come out of Microsoft’s Windows 10 event today was that players will be able to stream any Xbox One game to a Windows 10 PC or tablet. Microsoft Studios and Xbox head Phil Spencer was on hand to show the feature off using Forza Horizon 2.…

By Michael Rougeau Probably the biggest gaming news to come out of Microsoft’s Windows 10 event today was that players will be able to stream any Xbox One game to a Windows 10 PC or tablet. Microsoft Studios and Xbox head Phil Spencer was on hand to show off the feature using Forza Horizon 2.…