By Ben Stinson Introduction and design A few short months ago, Oppo was barely a blip on the international radar. After moving beyond the bounds of Blu-Ray players, it first garnered international attention with the Find 5 superphone. At the time it was the first smartphone to launch with a 1080p screen onboard, beating the…

By Jamie Hinks A new US National Security Agency (NSA) spying campaign has been uncovered that involved baking spying software deep inside hard drives made by some of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered that spies acting on behalf of the government found a way to exploit the source…

By Jamie Hinks A new US National Security Agency (NSA) spying campaign has been uncovered that involved baking spying software deep inside hard drives made by some of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered that spies acting on behalf of the government found a way to exploit the source…

By Jamie Hinks Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors won’t be ready in time for Computex 2015 in June and will debut at some point in August with a showcase at the Intel Developer Forum being tipped as the date for the diary. A recently leaked product roadmap shows that the Skylake-U mobile chip and Skylake-S desktop…

By Jamie Hinks Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors won’t be ready in time for Computex 2015 in June and will debut at some point in August with a showcase at the Intel Developer Forum being tipped as the date for the diary. A recently leaked product roadmap shows that the Skylake-U mobile chip and Skylake-S desktop…

By Darrell Etherington A small startup operating out of Newfoundland in Canada is working on a big problem that could have tremendous impact on the future of the drone industry. In partnership with Boeing, Solace Power will expand the viability and efficacy of a system it developed for recharging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) wirelessly, using…

By Gareth Beavis Introduction and design Updates: Our Galaxy Gear review contains updates to address its lower price, the increased competition and the optional switch to Tizen. What makes a smartwatch these days? Is it something that simply sits on the wrist and buzzes when the phone does something in the pocket? A fully-fledged phone…

By Gareth Beavis Introduction and design Updates: Our Galaxy Gear review contains updates to address its lower price, the increased competition and the optional switch to Tizen. What makes a smartwatch these days? Is it something that simply sits on the wrist and buzzes when the phone does something in the pocket? A fully-fledged phone…

By Thomas Thorn Introduction Despite the best efforts of Samsung and Apple, the world’s thinnest smartphone title goes to a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer. Oppo’s R5 handset is a mere 4.85mm thick, that’s almost thin enough to carve your holiday turkey. I can already hear many of you ask “but who is Oppo?” Chinese mobile…

By Thomas Thorn Introduction Despite the best efforts of Samsung and Apple, the world’s thinnest smartphone title goes to a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer. Oppo’s R5 handset is a mere 4.85mm thick, that’s almost thin enough to carve your holiday turkey. I can already hear many of you ask “but who is Oppo?” Chinese mobile…

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…

By Desire Athow Lenovo has revealed that it is teaming up with the Hartree Centre, part of the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), to build server solutions that use ARM-based processors. The first prototype uses NextScale’s dense computing platform technology, which Lenovo acquired as part of IBM’s x86 server clearout last year. Cavium ThunderX…

By Lisa Jackson We understand that the Internet of Things is going to be big. As employees and consumers, we will be able to make decisions based on more accurate data. As managers, we will have new tools that reduce waste and inefficiencies in the workplace. But if this highly anticipated future is to happen,…

By Darrell Etherington,Greg Kumparak,Kyle Russell This week, we have a rare opportunity to just plain unleash on a device: The Neptune Duo, which puts all the smartphone smarts inside an Android-powered smartwatch, then makes the screen in your pocket essentially a dumb receiver. It’s backwards and bad, and we find we’re mostly in agreement on…

By Darrell Etherington Kickstarter has provided a look at how the reconfigured review system the put in place last year has worked out for them, providing some counterargument to the opinion held in some corners of the Internet that Kickstarter has done away with a review system entirely, throwing open the gates to the wildlings…