Archive for the ‘mobile phones’ category: Page 169
Nov 7, 2018
Samsung Foldable Phone Launching This Week, Developer Conference Reveals
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, mobile phones
Nov 5, 2018
Cell-Phone Radiation Can Cause Cancer in Rats. The Next Question: What Does it Mean For Humans?
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones
Nov 4, 2018
Your Cell Phone Could Cause Cancer — Under Very Specific Conditions
Posted by Victoria Generao in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones
Nov 1, 2018
Elon Musk said Tesla owners will be able to drive their cars with their phones in around 6 weeks
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: Elon Musk, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation
Tesla owners will soon be able to drive their cars with their phones, Elon Musk said.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday via Twitter that an upcoming software update will allow Tesla owners to drive their cars with their phones in some situations.
“Car will drive to your phone location & follow you like a pet if you hold down summon button on Tesla app,” Musk said.
Oct 30, 2018
Apple Releases iOS 12.1 With eSIM Support, Real-Time Depth Control, Group FaceTime, New Emoji and More
Posted by Mary Jain in categories: cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones, virtual reality
Group Facetime. I think this means we are closer to platforms that can support Virtual Reality… #Holodeck
Apple today released iOS 12.1, the first major update to the iOS 12 operating system designed for the iPhone and the iPad. iOS 12.1 comes more than a month after the September release of iOS 12 and a few weeks after iOS 12.0.1, a bug fix update.
Oct 29, 2018
T-Mobile becomes 1st U.S. wireless company to carry the new 6T ‘superphone’ from China’s OnePlus
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, mobile phones, security
T-Mobile will carry the new OnePlus 6T, the first time a phone from the popular Chinese manufacturer has been offered by a U.S. wireless provider.
The 6T launches exclusively on T-Mobile starting Thursday, the company said during an unveiling event in New York City. But the company is offering an early sale at its Times Square store in New York City starting at 5 p.m. Eastern today.
Oct 24, 2018
Error: To all the naysayers of anything…
Posted by Mary Jain in category: mobile phones
Oct 15, 2018
World’s fastest camera can shoot light in slow motion
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, mobile phones
The “slow motion” modes on modern smartphones crank up the speed of video recording so that when it’s played back at regular speed, the motion you see on the screen is slowed down. It’s a neat feature to mess around with, but slow motion capture has some very serious scientific applications as well. Capturing the microscopic world at high speeds can help researchers shed light on all kinds of interesting behaviors and phenomena that shape our reality.
Now, imaging specialists have built what is being called the fastest camera on the planet, allowing for the capture of movement at up to 10 trillion frames per second. Forget slowing down a video of a home run at your kid’s softball game, this incredible contraption can slow down light itself.
A new paper published in Light: Science & Applications explains how the camera works, and boy is it complicated. To put it in its most basic terms, the camera uses laser pulses so ultra-fast that they are measured in quadrillionths of a second and combines those frames with images captured from a second camera moving at the same speed, allowing for high-quality images generated 10 trillion times every second.
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Oct 14, 2018
Tesla Software Could Completely Shake Up the Auto Industry
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation
Tesla is shaking up the automotive industry. But which of Tesla’s products and features are doing the disrupting, and who will be affected? A recent article by Benedict Evans delves into the details of this automotive disruption with comparisons to similar shake ups in the tech industry.
Evans uses the disruptive wave that Apple unleashed on Palm, Nokia, and other makers of previous-generation cell phones as an analogy. “When Nokia’s people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling,” he writes. “When many car company people look at a Tesla, they see a not-great car with some cool features that they’re going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they’re selling.”
But can Tesla be considered the Apple of the auto industry, and if so, what would that mean? Disruption occurs when a new technology or concept changes the basis of competition in a field. However, not every new technology turns out to be disruptive. “Some things do not change the basis of competition enough, and for some things the incumbents are able to learn and absorb the new concept instead,” writes Evans, noting that business professor Clay Christensen calls this “sustaining innovation” as opposed to “disruptive innovation”.
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