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Biometric security, camera specifications, app revelations, data security and the latest handsets. This is all about the smartphone.
Optical fingerprint sensor offers scanning 1mm thick glass
The new sensor, called Synaptics FS9100, would solve many of the current issues that conventional scanners…
Smartphone earthquake detector recorded nearly 400 tremblors
The University of California, Berkeley's worldwide network of smartphone earthquake detectors has recorded nearly…
Galileo: Europe’s own satnav goes live
Seventeen years and more than €10bn ($11bn) later, Europe's Galileo satnav system is set to go live on Thursday,…
Greater access to services lifts Kenyans out of poverty
Since 2008, MIT economist Tavneet Suri has studied the financial and social impacts of Kenyan mobile-money…
Using memory to piece together the parts
Thinking recently about the tragic airplane crash over South America involving a Brazilian football team, these…
Sign me up before you Amazon Go Go
Wouldn't it be useful if you could go shopping, just take what you need and leave, without queuing, packing…
Carv: The winter wearable digital ski coach
Author: Daisy Stapley-Bunten
With the support of Robotae, a robotics and mechatronics consultancy, Motion…
I believe I can fly…in a paper-airplane drone
With the FPV paper-airplane drone from Powerup Toys, it's possible to see what it is like on board. Once folded,…
Apple Watch clocks up best sales ever
Tim Cook has delivered an update on Apple Watch sales through the unusual medium of email to Reuters reporter. “Our…
Hacking a credit card in six seconds
It can take as little as six seconds to work out the card number, expiry date and security code of any Visa credit…