Google launched the latest version of its hugely-popular operating system – Android 8.0 Oreo – at an event in New York City earlier this week. The launch follows months of beta releases and tweaks from the US technology company. Android Oreo includes a slew of tweaks and minor improvements to […]
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All eyes are on Samsung’s new Note 8 which has been officially unveiled at a huge Unpacked event in New York. This updated flagship now includes a host of exciting new features including a giant 6.3-inch curved display, refreshed S Pen and faster processor. There’s also a dual-lens camera on the […]
It’s been three years since Nikon released the D810, its image-quality flagship full-frame camera. Its successor, the D850, looks like it’s been updated enough to get it through the next three, with a new 45.7-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor (which typically deliver faster readout), Nikon’s most recent autofocus and metering systems, […]
Bad for the brain as well as teethLarry W. Smith/Getty Images By Jessica Hamzelou People who use methamphetamine are almost five times more likely to have a stroke caused by a bleed in the brain, many of which are fatal. “We can add stroke to the list of terrible and […]
As older models grow in size with every new generation, this continual super-sizing creates vacuums in certain segments. Volkswagen’s Tiguan, now a big boy, leaves VW without a compact ute for urban commutes. Enter the T-Roc. Surprisingly little changed between the T-Roc concept and the production version. It still sports […]
A step in the right directionFunctional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Dept, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center By Timothy Revell If you are a child with the most common childhood physical disability, cerebral palsy, there is only a 50 per cent chance that you will still be able […]
Reach for the moon – but no rushMoon Express THE deadline for the Google Lunar X Prize has been pushed back once again, from the end of 2017 to 31 March 2018. The competition offers $30 million to the first privately funded venture to land a spacecraft on the moon. […]
Your Gmail photos could soon be held in cold storageGoogle By Matt Reynolds The best way to put your photos on ice is to freeze them. Extremely cold molecules could soon hold hundreds of times more data than existing hard drives. By controlling the magnetism of individual molecules, Nick Chilton […]
No time soonDavid Howells/Corbis via Getty Images By Leah Crane NASA wants you to know it is on a Journey to Mars. For the last few years, the space agency has done everything it can to work those three words into press releases, public statements and YouTube videos. Nearly all […]
We still don’t fully understand how the bacteria inside us affect our healthSteve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library IBM has announced plans to study the human microbiome and its role in autoimmune diseases. We still don’t fully understand how the bacteria inside us affect our health. IBM plans to find out more […]
The Ferrari California got a bad rap. As the least expensive Ferrari available, it was typically derided as a thing of pure style and no substance, meant only for people who want to brag about a badge. But the actual California, and the California T that came after, couldn’t be […]
How much lithium?Lucy Lambriex/Getty By New Scientist staff and Press Association Higher natural levels of lithium in drinking water may protect against Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, according to a study of more than 800,000 people in Denmark – but only at certain concentrations. Lars Vedel Kessing, of the […]
EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS Samsung Galaxy Note 8 revealed Almost a year after Samsung’s disastrous exploding Galaxy Note 7 was pulled from sale this popular phablet is making a spectacular return. Samsung has just lifted the lid on the all-new Galaxy Note 8 and it appears they have put their past issues […]
Space age chicSpaceX By Sam Wong Space suits are getting a much-needed style makeover. Elon Musk has posted the first photo of SpaceX’s space suit, which will be worn by astronauts riding in the reusable Dragon crew capsule. Musk appears to be modelling the sleek white suit himself. It’s designed […]
I circled the San Francisco Bay and drove to the coast, but the fuel gauge in the 2017 Ford C-Max hybrid barely budged. It moved as slow as the wall clock in calculus class. As I felt the well-tuned driving dynamics from behind the wheel, and surveyed the large cargo […]
Cataclysmic collisionDana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc./Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics By Mika McKinnon Have we detected a new flavour of gravitational wave? Speculation is swelling that researchers have spotted the subtle warping of the fabric of space resulting from the cataclysmic collision of two neutron stars. Now optical telescopes – including […]
By Josh Gabbatiss The hallucinogenic effects of magic mushrooms are well documented. But nobody knows what psilocybin, the chemical responsible, does for the mushrooms themselves. Now, one of the first genomic analyses of hallucinogenic fungi has deciphered psilocybin production, and even suggested a function for it. By messing with insect […]
No eavesdropping with quantum commsGetty Images By Devin Powell The weird world of quantum mechanics is going for a swim. A team of Chinese researchers has, for the first time, transmitted quantum entangled particles of light through water – the first step in using lasers to send underwater messages that […]
By Aylin Woodward There’s a bright side to everything, perhaps even mass die-offs of animals. If one population of a species goes rapidly and completely extinct – maybe thanks to a forest fire or hurricane – it may help the species persist in the long run. Members of a species […]
Beginning to see the light?NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle By Jesse Emspak The “alien megastructure” star that has been puzzling us for the past few years might have a more ordinary explanation: an orbiting Saturn-like planet, complete with wobbling rings. In 2015, a group led by Tabetha Boyajian, then of Yale University, found […]