By Ben Fox Rubin The world’s largest mobile-chips company got backing from several major device makers that plan to use its new top-tier chip, the Snapdragon 810.
By Ben Fox Rubin The world’s largest mobile-chips company got backing from several major device makers that plan to use its new top-tier chip, the Snapdragon 810.
By Sarah Zhang
Your phone died. Again. In these scenarios, who among us has not dreamed the dream of a future where our devices charge instantly and last forever. As capacitors—or even more exciting, ultracapacitors—get better and better at storing energy, they could replace batteries and realize at least one half of that dream.
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It’s kind of the oldest trick in the book. Catfishing is where you pretend to be someone you’re not online so that you can trick someone else into doing something. And based on a new report, this is exactly how pro-Assad hackers have been robbing intel from opposition forces: They’ve been …
By Bonnie Burton Sculptor Anna Sternik makes candles that look uncannily like human faces that you may think twice about lighting the wick.
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By Bonnie Burton Sculptor Anna Sternik makes candles that look uncannily like human faces that you may think twice about lighting the wick.
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In 1992, mere days after Windows 3.1 was released, it was revealed that typing the letters NYC in Wingdings—Microsoft’s…
In 1992, mere days after Windows 3.1 was released, it was revealed that typing the letters NYC in Wingdings—Microsoft’s…
By Stephen Shankland Switching Firefox browser users’ default search engine from Google pushes Yahoo’s share of searches up 2 percentage points at the expense of its main rival.
By Stephen Shankland Switching Firefox browser users’ default search engine from Google pushes Yahoo’s share of searches up 2 percentage points at the expense of its main rival.