Dyson knows a lot about moving air. It's spent millions perfecting the vacuum cleaner, the room fan, and even the restroom hand dryer for. Its next target? The handheld hair dryer. Dubbed the Supersonic, Dyson's hair dryer goes on sale in Japan and the U.K. in early June and will reach the U.S. market in September. As it's done with its other products, the engineering-focused company has completely reimagined how a hair dryer looks and functions. The motor has been moved from the back of the cylinder into the handle, for starters, and sensors have been added to sample the air flow 20 times each second to enable precise heat control. Placing the motor in the handle allowed Dyson's engineers to surround the motor with noise-dampening material to make the dryer more quiet. This placement also changed the dryer's center of balance, which makes it feel lighter even though it weighs about the same as a conventional model.
The U.S. House of Representatives, in a rare unanimous vote, has approved a bill to strengthen privacy protections for email and other data stored in the cloud. The The bill, with 314 cosponsors in the House, would update a 30-year-old law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Some privacy advocates and tech companies
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Collaboration has been a central focus of Office 2016, and this month’s updates really take it up a notch: You can find out about anyone who’s working on your document, and even call an all-hands virtual meeting to discuss new changes. The Office 2016 Activity hub. The Activity feed presents a slightly different tweak on the familiar Track Changes function. While Track Changes allows you to see what edits have been made to a particular document, the Activity feed reports who saved a particular document, and allows you to jump back to the version he or she was working on.
Apple yesterday said it sold 4 million Macs in the March quarter, a 12 percent decline from the same period the year before, and a larger contraction than for the personal computer business as a whole. The year-over-year downturn in Mac sales was the second straight down quarter, and excepting a brutal 22 percent drop at the end of 2012, the largest since Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007. Analysts at IDC and Gartner earlier this month
Running on local hardware, versus relying on servers in the cloud, should make Eyesight’s computer-vision tech faster and more reliable.
Google has released an Android TV remote app for iPhone and iPad, but don’t expect much from it. Like the existing remote app for Android phones and tablets, the No, it’s not a particularly imaginative app, but in fairness, hardly any of the phone control apps for modern media players are.
Samsung will start shipping its eight-core Artik 10 board computer next month, a challenger to the Raspberry Pi 3. The Artik 10 was first announced last year and could be a PC replacement if you don't mind building out your own system. It could also spawn the development of smart appliances, drones, robots and other gadgets. Like the Raspberry Pi, its components are crammed onto a small circuit board. The Artik 10 will be available from online retailer Digi-Key starting in May, Samsung officials said. Pricing wasn't immediately available, but the Artik 10 could end up being more expensive than the $35 Raspberry Pi 3, and even the $99.99
As if you didn’t have enough to worry about when it comes to being stalked on the Internet, now comes along a new hack to the social driving app Researchers at the UC-Santa Barbara were able to demonstrate how to track an individual’s whereabouts by creating hundreds of different “ghost” drivers inside of the application. As demonstrated to a reporter from
Google wants to take some of the pain out of scheduling work meetings with a new feature the company launched for its Calendar product on Wednesday. The new "Find a Time" feature in the Google Calendar Android app helps users pick out a time that works for everyone invited to a meeting without requiring them to spend ages going back and forth over email. Here's how it works: when a user sets up a meeting and adds people to the event, Find a Time will pick out a list of suggested times, along with who will be able to attend. Those suggestions will be built not only on the current state of an invitee's calendar, but also their historical scheduling trends. Once the organizer has picked a time, Google Calendar will send out invitations to everyone.
India has prescribed that starting next year mobile phones in the country should have buttons that can be quickly used by women to alert the police and close relatives if they are in distress. The measure is one of several responses by the Indian government to the growing problem of rape attacks on women in the country. Pressing the panic button Under the new rules that come into effect in January 2017, all feature phones will need to have a panic button configured to the numeric key 5 or 9 and all smartphones will have the panic button linked to three short presses of the on-off button, according to the country’s Department of Communications.
Switchmate’s Bluetooth LE device mounts on top of existing switches for quick and easy smart-lighting retrofits, but it doesn't connect to any hubs.
Apple isn’t the only company looking to remove the Intel discussed the issue about two weeks ago during its developer conference in Shenzhen, China. The idea makes a lot of sense, at least on paper. USB-C is designed to be a multifunction port that can transfer data and power at higher speeds.
HTC on Tuesday announced it will lead a $100 million virtual reality accelerator fund to cultivate the VR ecosystem by supporting startups. The move could be another boost to the development of enterprise applications and uses for VR, analysts said. VR is already being used in areas such as the training of surgeons, astronauts and combat troops who can use VR to simulate conditions and challenges they will face in the future. Last week, HTC
Getty Images, a long-time critic of Google’s image search functionality, plans on Wednesday to file a competition law complaint against the search giant with the European Commission. The key allegation by Getty is that Google profits from scraping third-party images that it does not generate, while affecting artists whose work can as a result be easily pirated. Google is already being investigated by the commission for allegedly favoring its own comparison shopping product in general search results. Last week the authority charged Google
Weatherproof, paintable enclosures house 1.0-inch tweeters and either 6.5- or 8.0-inch woofers.
If a subpar camera has been holding you back from buying Nextbit’s The company announced the latest software update for its cloud-based Android flagship. The software tweaks appear minor at first, but the jump to Android 6.0.1 includes overhauled camera software that addresses some of the concerns we noted in our