Valve will an der Game Developers Conference im März nicht nur neue Stuben-PCs vorstellen. Auch ein Vorstoss in die virtuelle Realität ist geplant.
Die Firma Sensirion will Handys in Promille-Tester verwandeln. Ein Mini-Sensor machts möglich - laut den Entwicklern ist er eine Weltneuheit.
Farbdisplay und ein Akku, der eine Woche durchhält: Die Macher der Pebble Time räumen mit ihrer Datenuhr bei Kickstarter kräftig ab.
Zukunftsforscher Gerd Leonhard warnt vor dem Verlust grundlegender Fähigkeiten. Schuld sei der tägliche Umgang mit dem Handy.
Mit einem Schweizer Polizei-BMW durch New York fahren? Dank einem Game-Tüftler ist das im Spiel «GTA IV» jetzt möglich. Die Polizei hat wenig Freude.
Spiele sind ihm oft zu geradlinig und er liebt es, Sci-Fi-Storys zu erfinden. Sein Spiel «Airships» hat David Stark jedoch entwickelt, um Dampf abzulassen.
Erstmals sind Bilder aufgetaucht, die Apples neue Emojis mit verschiedenen Hautfarben zeigen. Sie erscheinen in den neuen Betriebssystemen.
Die «Total War»-Reihe eröffnet mit dem Angriff der Hunnen ein neues Kapitel. Das Game bietet eine brillante Mischung aus Politik und Krieg.
Hannele Hediger schickt ihrem finnischen Kollegen in der Schweiz ein SMS. Danach beginnt für ihn der Stress: Das SMS geht immer wieder ein.
Mit seiner Duo-Datenuhr will ein junger Kanadier Samsung und Apple herausfordern. Das Gerät soll noch dieses Jahr auf den Markt kommen.
Mit dem mobilen Betriebssystem iOS 8.3 will Apple neue Wege gehen: In einer öffentlichen Beta-Phase sollen Interessierte das System ausprobieren können.
Geplante Werbung oder ungewollte Informationspanne? Bereits vor dem Mobile World Congress wurden Informationen und Bilder zu neuen Smartphones veröffentlicht.
Für 1,7 Milliarden Euro baut Apple zwei neue Rechenzentren in Europa. Sie sollen ab 2017 die Cloud-Daten von europäischen Kunden beherbergen.
Mit HTTP/2 wird die grösste Änderung am Fundament des Webs seit 16 Jahren durchgeführt. Es soll viele Vorteile bringen, sei aber kein magischer Feenstaub.
Google will submit plans this week to build a new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The company, which already has a large multi-building campus in Mountain View, confirmed to Earlier today,
Google Play Music users can now upload up to 50,000 songs for free, more than doubling what they could previously.
U.S. start-up Leia is demonstrating its 3D holographic display technology at Mobile World Congress, promising a chance to see what mobile holography is all about. Demonstrations of future technologies are among the more exciting exhibits at Mobile World Congress, and Leia looks sure to wow visitors at this year’s edition, which starts on Monday in Barcelona. Leia’s goal is to make the company’s technology cheap and compact enough to be integrated into smartphones and other mobile devices. It can be used to produce imagery
Prezi is one of the more clever presentation apps, and it’s finally zoomed its way on to the Play Store. It’s popular in business and education with a full suite of apps for Windows and Mac desktops, along with iOS. The With
Pop quiz: Which is faster, the Atom Z3735F or the Atom Z3735G? If your eyes are glazing over, you’re not alone, because even hard-core geeks get confused by Intel’s naming convention for the Atom chip family—which is why they’re rebranding it. New Atom chips will have the X3, X5 and X7 designations, much like with the Core i3, i5 and i7 brands. An Atom X3 will deliver good performance, X5 will be better and X7 will be the best, an Intel spokeswoman said. The new names will give buyers a quick sense of the level of technology that they’re getting in mobile devices. For example, faster X7 chips for high-end tablets may have better graphics and more wireless connectivity options than X5 chips. (Of course, devices with more advanced chips tend to carry higher prices.)
Apple has been ordered to pay $532.9 million after a U.S. jury found that its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by Smartflash, a Texas-based technology licensing company. That figure is less than the $852 million that Apple tried to have the case thrown out, saying that it never used Smartflash’s technology. Apple also argued the patents in question are invalid because previous patented innovations from other companies covered the same technology.
Motorola Mobility’s new Moto E has LTE and a more powerful processor than its predecessor, but users will also have to make do with a low-resolution front camera that doesn’t measure up to ones offered on competing products. The upgraded Moto E’s arrival less than a year after the first version went on sale highlights the growing competition for unlocked smartphones costing $200 or less. It will start shipping on Thursday in 40 countries and cost about $150. The new Moto E has a 4.5-inch, 540 x 960-pixel screen and a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor from Qualcomm. The original model has a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and a 4.3-inch screen with the same resolution.
Canonical just released Let’s dig in. Ubuntu 14.04 is a long-term service—or LTS—release. It’ll be
Sony may have accidently raised the curtain on its latest device, the Xperia Z4 Tablet. It made a brief cameo inside of Sony's own Someone at Sony pulled the trigger too quickly with the latest tablet release.
A budget Windows Phone phablet for AT&T and a slew of smaller handsets could be on tap for Mobile World Congress, according to one in-app advertising firm. AdDuplex, a company that serves cross-promotional ads on Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps, says it's seen a lot of unidentified device activity on its network in the run-up to MWC. Judging from the devices' For instance, one device has 5.7-inch 720p display, and has been spotted running on AT&T's U.S. network. While that's on the large side for a phone, the pixel density would be much lower than AT&T's existing Lumia 1520, suggesting a cheaper oversized handset.
Uber Technologies is offering free rides on its uberX ride-sharing service in the South Korean capital of Seoul, after city authorities intensified their crackdown on illegal drivers by offering a reward to residents who report Uber drivers to police. Last December, the city of Seoul offered rewards of 1 million won (about $910) to people who report Uber drivers, and called all services by Uber “blatantly illegal.” In the last three months of operating the service for sale, about 100 reports have been made although no rewards were provided by the city yet, according to Uber Korea’s spokeswoman. Seoul city was not available for immediate response.
WordPress site owners using the WP-Slimstat plug-in installed should upgrade it to the latest version immediately in order to fix a critical vulnerability, security researchers warn. Researchers from Web security firm Sucuri found a vulnerability that stems from weak cryptographic key generation in WP-Slimstat versions 3.9.5 and lower. If attackers can determine the secret key used by the plug-in, they can launch blind SQL injection attacks that enable them to read sensitive information from the site’s database.
Games, concerts, and other immersive virtual reality experiences—and many are available for free.
AMD microprocessors are relatively cheap and powerful, and they consume little power. So why aren’t they featured in the latest generation of low-cost computers, Chromebooks? The answer, according to AMD chief technical officer Mark Papermaster, is that they just aren’t worth it—yet. “You have to really look at the Chromebook, and what Google’s objective with it is,” Papermaster said, speaking with a small group of reporters on Monday evening during the ISSCC conference. “For us, it's just a business decision, when you need our type of CPU and graphics technology that can make a difference.” Mark Papermaster, the chief technology officer at AMD