Didier Raoult, a microbiologist at Aix-Marseille University in France, must be some sort of virus whisperer. He'd made various discoveries about the world of viruses over the years. In the latest study that he co-led with fellow microbiologist Bernar...
Well, this is awkward: Not long after Snapchat was bragging to potential investors about its ephemeral social app garnering some 8 billion daily video views, the company has admitted that it fell prey to a phishing attempt. A post on the company's bl...
Gaze into the darkness long enough and a reluctant British vampire will gaze back at you. Sure, that's not quite what Nietzsche said, but it's the angle Dontnod is taking with its latest game, Vampyr. Set in London in 1918, Vampyr stars Jonathan Reid...
We still don't have exact timing for the upcoming Fallout 4 add-on packs and survival mode, but perhaps a pretty sizable update to Fallout Shelter is an olive branch of sorts. For the most part, the patch brings a level of parity between the console...
Somehow, season four of House of Cards arriving this week doesn't feel like that big of a deal. Beyond Netflix's flagship series, we're looking forward to a number of big releases, including the first big slew of Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. Some of the b...
Believe it or not, Google hasn't offered Cardboard through its own online shop -- you've had to go through third parties to get a taste of its virtual reality experience. Logic is finally prevailing, though, as Google has started offering Cardboard...The difficult and dangerous task of producing ultra-pure phosphorus has been the subject of extensive investigations in the for research laboratories of L. Light and Co. Ltd., Colnbrook, Bucks. So, 56 years ago, started a story in EW’s edition of September 7th 1960 The story continues: After many setbacks, techniques metals, have been perfected which ...
In its court filing appealing against the order to break the encryption on an iPhone, Apple points out that the US government is asking it to develop a new OS. “The Order would compel Apple to create a new version of the iPhone operating system,” states Apple’s filing. According to Apple, that would take up to ten ...
It's rarely fun to edit your action camera videos, and that's a big problem for GoPro -- it even cited that drudgery as a significant "inconvenience" to users when reporting its lackluster results in January. And now, it appears that the company is...
Hacking Team has largely stayed under the radar after a gigantic leak exposed its spyware-selling ways, but the company might be on the rebound. Security researchers have noticed that recent Mac malware installs a version of Hacking Team's Remote Cod...
A US magistrate judge in New York has ruled that the government can't force Apple to help the FBI unlock an iPhone using the All Writes Act. This case in question is about drug trafficking and is not related to the San Bernardino shooter case.
Sony announced on Monday that it will shutter the PSP's native store on March 31, 2016. Customers will still be able to purchase PSP content from the company's webstore, just not directly through their devices. That said, users will still be able to...
It's often the little things that make a big difference. Mojang has released a combat-focused Minecraft update that lets you carry items in both hands, dramatically streamlining how you play. You can carry both a sword and a shield (also new) when...
On March 1st Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia will cast their votes in the primaries and caucuses. Plus Alaska and Wyoming are having Republican caucuses and American Sam...
Razer and the OSVR alliance have been working on their developer-ready VR headset for a while, but they haven't said much about what you'll play on this early hardware. That's a bit odd for technology that revolves around gaming, don't you think? N...
The ridiculous but delightful Rocket League -- a game that basically lets you play soccer with rocket-powered cars rather than human beings -- was one of the surprise indie hits for the PS4 and Steam in 2015. Earlier this month, it hit the the Xbox O...
Google's self-driving cars have been in accidents before, but always on the receiving end... at least, until now. The company has filed a California DMV accident report confirming that one of its autonomous vehicles (a Lexus RX450h) collided with a b...
Back at CES, Panasonic's revived Technics brand pulled the wraps off of its new direct-drive SL-1200 turntable. While that announcement surely kicked up all sorts of feelings, the new gear comes with a steep price tag: $4,000. As many have noted, tha...
Today isn't just the day that you get a brand, spankin' new Public Access Weekly -- it's also Johnny Cash's birthday so put on something black, press play on the YouTube video below and get updated on everything that's going down at Public Access....
Apple is gearing up for its first meeting with Congress tomorrow regarding the FBI's request to unlock an encrypted iPhone linked to the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. The company's General Counsel, Bruce Sewell, will testify its case before the h...
After playing host to fourteen shark attacks last year, the Australian state of New South Wales has been eyeing up drones for help. The state government's new "shark strategy" calls for tiny aircraft to monitor the waters around southeast Australia,...
Back in October, Google Maps rolled out a new feature for finding pit stops along your route. Today, the handy tool is making its way to the iOS version of the app. If you missed the news the first time around, the feature allows you to add a detour...
Getting people to trust robots is as big a deal for the future of technology as building them. But, it turns out, acquiring that trust might not be that difficult. Test subjects at the Georgia Institute of Technology willingly followed an emergency r...
Bugatti's answer to Ferrari and Lamborghini is here. The LaFerrari, McLaren P1, and Porsche 918 Spyder have all come and gone, yet people the world over still put one hypercar on a pedestal above them all. It might not have had the hybrid electric po...
Square Cash is all well and good if you want to send money to someone right away, but what if you want to set something aside for later, such as paying back a friend? You're covered after today. Square has updated its Android and iOS apps to introd...
The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti is a psychedelic hipster dream disguised as a narrative-driven adventure game. It stars Francis Vendetti, the fictional nephew of the late, great musical icon Johnson Vendetti. In this alternate universe, Johnson...Express Logic has introduced a version of its X-Ware Secure Platform for ARM Cortex-M processors. The platform incorporates the firm’s ThreadX, NetX, USBX, FileX, GUIX, and TraceX for use with future ARMv8-M–based Cortex-M processors with TrustZone and with existing ARMv6-M– and ARMv7-M–based Cortex-M processors with MPU support. The tools can be used for software partitioning ...
ThreadX to support ARMv8-M–based Cortex-M processors with TrustZone
Rohde & Schwarz’s RTO2000 multi-domain oscilloscope can be used to display the correlations between time, frequency, protocol and logic analysis measurement results. Using the scope’s analogue input channels, it is possible to simultaneously observe the signal in the time and frequency domain, and if desired, the spectrogram. New functions include peak list, max. hold detectors and a ...
Rohde & Schwarz scope displays the time/frequency correlations
The US and EU have published a big pile of documents that spill the beans on the pair's replacement for Safe Harbor. The new provision is known as the EU-US Privacy Shield and is designed to limit how much personal data the NSA (amongst others) can a...
Amazon's automatic Dash refills are reaching all kinds of devices... and now, that includes the gadgets in your fridge. Brita has launched the Infinity water pitcher, a WiFi-equipped container that automatically orders replacement filters whenever y...
If you have a shiny DAB radio sitting in your car or living room, now's the time to walk on over, turn it on and retune. Why? Well, a second "multiplex" has gone live in the UK today, opening up some much-needed airwaves so that a bunch of new statio...
If you passed on the Oculus Rift because you're dead set on owning HTC's Vive VR headset, your time has now come. The company has just opened pre-orders for the $799 bundle (€899 in Europe and £689 in the UK), which includes the Vive heads...
You know that Microsoft's HoloLens will do a fair amount on its own, but what can it do in harmony with your PC? Quite a bit, actually. Fans have noticed that Hololens' official companion app for Windows 10 lets you download media, remotely launch...It’s not looking like a good start to the year. Bill Jewell at Semiconductor Intelligence points out that some companies are expecting a big decline for Q1 compared to Q4: 6% at Intel, 8% at Qualcomm, 9% at Micron, 10% at Nvidia, 11% at MediaTek and 6.9% at TI. The only company expecting a better ...
A Gloomy Q1 and a Lacklustre Year.
Smart clothing and robots alike might soon get better thanks to a breakthrough from a team of Swiss researchers. They created relatively thin electronic circuits that can be stretched like rubber up to four times their original length in any directio...Aiming to make USB technology as straightforward to use as possible, FTDI Chip has introduced the FT260 – a human interface device (HID) class interface controller IC, which complements the company’s vendor class portfolio. It can provide USB 2.0 Full Speed (12Mbps) connectivity to a broad range of applicatioms – including connection of touchscreens, computer peripherals and IoT sensing apparatus, ...
FTDI Chip simplifies USB technology
If you're a developer, today's the day Microsoft is making good on its mixed-reality promise. Pre-orders for HoloLens, the company's augmented-reality Windows 10 headset, are now live. Invites to purchase the $3,000 device will begin to hit the inbox...
The Internet of Things can be a wondrous thing -- it allows you to operate your lights using an app, remotely monitor your house and, when it works, intelligently warm it. This last weekend, some owners of the Hive smart thermostat experienced what i...
Derren Brown's new ghost train attraction for Thorpe Park is still wrapped in secrecy. We know visitors will sit in a suspended carriage and that the experience will feature multiple HTC Vive headsets. We know that it's a "multi-sensory" ride combini...
Snapchat is immensely popular, but at the moment its plentiful Snaps and stitched Stories are trapped inside the mobile app. If you're on a laptop or PC, or want to share a Snap on another social network, there's no obvious way of doing so. That stat...All hail the new Raspberry Pi 3, which is on course to become the best selling UK computer ever. Available now at the same price as the Raspberry Pi Model B (£30), the Raspberry Pi 3 device is built on quad-core Broadcom BCM2837 64-bit ARMv8 processor (running an ARMv7 operating system). It clocks 1.20GHz, up ...
Raspberry Pi 3 turns Blueberry Pi with built-in Bluetooth
Solar cell conversion efficiency could be dramatically increased if graphene research at the University of Surrey can be commercialised. The researchers say they have demonstrated how graphene can be manipulated to create the most light-absorbent material for its weight, to date. The discovery was made as part of research the Surrey team has been doing ...
Graphene solar cell breakthrough ‘sees’ like a moth
Cambridgeshire-based design house 42 Technology is highlighting the importance of product development in the UK for the transport and infrastructure sector. The consultancy is creating a new design activity in areas such as: vehicle tracking and real-time sensing, logging and communication; electric vehicle power electronics and charging systems; gas vehicle fuelling and operation detection systems; ...
Design house builds on ‘Tomorrow’s Train’ success
What else gets you in the inclusionary spirit of the Oscars like your favorite streaming service blocking you from accessing it? That's the reality many woke to this weekend when Netflix stepped up its efforts to block those using VPNs and other regi...Raspberry Pi 3 may now have a 64-bit quad-core ARM processor, but this is not the big news on this the fourth anniversary of the tiny educational and maker computer module. Raspberry Pi 3 can now be used as a wirelessly internet-connected hub. It is now an internet of things (IoT) hub. Makers have been ...
Raspberry Pi 3 is IoT hub, at last
Room has to be found on Gadget Master for this one. Okay, it’s not a gadget, or self-built, but it is “state-of-the-art cartography technology” and it tickles my fancy. A digital map of Mars from the good people at the Ordnance Survey (OS). Explore Margaritifer Terra, circumnavigate Becquerel, jump into Aram Chaos… The OS has ...
A digital map of Mars plots the way for ExoMars
As a rule, most solar cells need to catch direct sunlight. Even those that work indoors can only do so much to generate power from artificial light sources. However, British researchers have found a clever (and decidedly) unusual way to harvest ene...Raspberry Pi, element14 and RS Components have announced Raspberry Pi 3, based around a quad core 64bit processor. “Four years ago today, we launched the first Raspberry Pi with our friends at Premier Farnell. Today we’re launching Raspberry Pi 3: it’s still $35 and it’s still the size of your credit card, but now it comes ...
Raspberry Pi goes 64bit and quad core
By the power of Google Analytics, let’s see what clicked on Gadget Master in the month of February. What were your peers reading most in this month? What might you have missed? The answers include sole power energy harvesting, Robot Wars, the BBC Micro:bit, home automation, an IoT dev kit, and a home alarm system… As always, ...
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If you've ever thought that a low-budget sci-fi thriller can't compete with the cream of Hollywood, think again. Last night's Academy Awards handed the Oscar for best visual effects to Alex Garland's brilliant Ex Machina. It's something of a shock, s...Raspberry Pi 3, which goes on sale today, has an 64-bit processor and integrated WiFI and Bluetooth. It costs $35. It uses a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU delivering around 10x the performance of Raspberry Pi 1. The Foundation will continue to make Pi 1 or 2 for as long as there’s demand. Raspberry ...
Instead of taking the UK's supermarkets head-on, Amazon has decided to ally with them in order to boost the popularity of its Pantry service. The site, launched in November last year, allows Prime subscribers to remotely order more than 4,000 product...Linear Technology has introduced a dual 25A or single 50A output step-down µModule regulator with onboard shielded inductors, MOSFETs and a dual DC/DC regulator IC housed in a small thermally enhanced plastic package. The device, LTM4650, is offered in a 16mm x 16mm x 5.01mm BGA with a patented built-in heat sink. The heat sink, ...
LTC output step-down µModule regulator
It's hard to believe, but it's been four years since the Raspberry Pi Foundation gave the DIY computing scene a huge kick in the right direction with the launch of the Model A. To celebrate the milestone and 8 million units sold, the charity is hosti...
It's easy to identify where a photo was taken if there's an obvious landmark, but what about landscapes and street scenes where there are no dead giveaways? Google believes artificial intelligence could help. It just took the wraps off of PlaNet, a...
YouTube has taken steps to prevent mistaken takedowns of your videos, but that hasn't been enough for some. A rash of alleged copyright violations in recent weeks (such as for Call of Duty clips) has triggered an outcry among creators who worry that...
If you're a fan of high-end watches and really want to stand out, one of your slicker options is HYT's H series. Instead of relying solely on spinning hands to tell the time, it uses a hydro-mechanical system that fills capillaries with fluid. Soun...The Chinese certainly seem to be game. After a long litany of rebuffs they’re now trying to buy Lattice, reports Reuters.. Apparently Morgan Stanley is helping Lattice choose between a number of would-be purchasers one of whom is Chinese. The usual suspect is Tsinghua which has had offers of investment rejected by Western Digital, Micron, ...
The days may be numbered for the PlayStation TV (aka PlayStation Vita TV), Sony's attempt at bringing the Vita experience into your living room. The company has updated the PSTV's Japanese product page to say that it has stopped shipping the mini co...
Watch Ben as he tackles the challenge of soldering the main processing chips of an Atari 2600 into a new configuration. In this episode, he'll Introduce concepts and tricks such as the optimal layout of wiring between chips, what to do with dry jo...
A collaboration of scientists from University of Washington (UW), the Pasteur Institute and the University of Utrecht have harnessed a state-of-the-art microscope and supercomputer to model a coronavirus' infection mechanism for the first time.
Zepp tipped its hand on integrated swing sensors for baseball bats and tennis rackets back at CES. With MLB Spring Training in full swing, now's as good a time as any to pull the wraps of the finished version. The sports-tracking company teamed up wi...
All the hype surrounding Apple's rumored March event might soon boil to a head. Sources for both Recode and Buzzfeed understand that Apple will hold its shindig on or shortly after March 21st -- later than the previously-hinted March 15th date, but...
I, Mat Smith, through the gift of working as a journalist here at Engadget, am verified. On both Twitter and Facebook. It's the social networks' way of certifying that I'm better than the muggles that people are who they say they are. I get a ticket...
At last, we have a UK price for the HTC Vive. We always knew that the VR headset would cost a little more than the Oculus Rift, given the difference in the pair's hardware. The bundled wand controllers and the external sensors for room mapping and lo...
It's been a week of mixed news for the tech industry. Boston Dynamics and MIT showed off new devices that could radically advance humanity while, at the same time, Sharp spent billions on a company whose employees regularly throw themselves from its...