By Desire Athow Chinese chip designer Mediatek is apparently on the verge of launching 10- and 12-core system on chips if rumours emanating from China. As it stands though, it makes little sense for the market to evolve beyond eight-core, which is where the mainstream market is currently standing. Mediatek has been very aggressive getting…

By Darrell Etherington The SpaceX Dragon capsule has successfully bolted to the International Space Station, where it will spend four weeks as it resupplies the orbiting platform during its fifth official mission as a supply ferry. The SpaceX craft launched on January 10, and then began its approach of the ISS just a few hours…

By Darrell Etherington While Google Glass hasn’t had the impact that Google had likely hoped it would, a fresh funding round of $16 million raised by Augmedix today suggests it’s far from dead. Augmedix is a startup that launched in 2012, with the aim of providing medical professionals with a Glass-powered electronic health record solution:…

By Jim Al-Khadeali TechRadar has a team of tech-savvy super-elves putting together our daily deals, and today we’ve got some great ideas for some January bargains. We’ve got TV deals, gaming deals, phones, speakers and more! Let’s start with this great deal on a Philips 4K TV. This 50-inch machine comes packing Philips’ legendary good…

By Darrell Etherington E-ink continues to expand its presence at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and one of the best advocates for the tech has been Yota Devices. The Russian company created the YotaPhone, a dual-display smartphone with an LED screen on one side, and a low-power e-paper display on the back. In 2014, they…

By Anthony Ha Last fall, Gannett unveiled its first attempt at journalism for the Oculus Rift — Harvest of Change, a series of stories in the Des Moines Register. Specifically, the series used Oculus to give readers a tour of the farm featured in one of the stories. Now the media company is launching its…

By Matt Burns Standing is better than sitting. Most of the time. Sometimes your body needs a rest and that’s where the Humanscale OfficeIQ powered by Tome comes to play. Tome’s Jack Sigal stopped by the TechCrunch broadcast booth to show me how this desk can help me lose weight. Software and hardware developed by…

By John Biggs Karolina Boladz is the COO of Zortrax, a 3D printer company in Poland. Her company grew out of a Kickstarter project that ballooned and is now in the running to be one of the largest and most popular printers in Europe. However, unlike her competitors, Zortrax had a hard road to funding…

By John Biggs CES is a huge show. While we focused on Hardware Battlefield, in truth we covered miles of convention center and shot hours of film. And we want you to watch some of the best of it. While you can enjoy all of our video over here, I’ve picked out a few of…

By Alan Stevens Introduction and performance Desktop workstations can be both big and expensive, but not so the Fujitsu Celsius W530, a compact and affordable entry-level workstation designed to bridge the gap between high-end PCs and much more expensive professional models. Okay, so it’s only got one processor, but that’s reflected in the £1,430 recommended…

By Alan Stevens Introduction and performance Desktop workstations can be both big and expensive, but not so the Fujitsu Celsius W530, a compact and affordable entry-level workstation designed to bridge the gap between high-end PCs and much more expensive professional models. Okay, so it’s only got one processor, but that’s reflected in the £1,430 recommended…

By Kyle Russell While walking through startups at Eureka Park at CES with Darrell Etherington doing live interviews with founders, I forced him to chat with Photonic, a startup that makes nifty orbs that translate your dance moves into beats, while I demoed the device besides them. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Natasha Lomas Meet Miiya: a kids wearable that’s being designed to nudge kids to be more active, while also offering security features for parents to help alert them if their child has wandered too far away. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Jordan Crook It’s not like EEG is breakthrough technology. We’ve been able to read the electrical activity of the brain for quite some time, but the clever folks at IEEE are thinking up new and creative ways to leverage those read-outs into something a bit more fun. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Bridie Roman If you’re anything like team TechRadar then the first week back at work from Christmas break is always the hardest part of the year. You’re about half a stone heavier from all the delicious food you’ve gorged yourself on and still a little too attached to your onesie to feel comfortable wearing…