In partnership with Danish firm GN Hearing, Google is currently developing a protocol to enable native hearing aid support in Android. The open specification will allow users with hearing impairments to connect their aids to their phone for a better user experience. With 466 million affected by hearing loss globally, it could even be said […]
The last few Windows Insider preview builds of Windows 10 have offered few new features and have instead focused on fixing bugs. The latest build, released today, takes a step toward completion: it has changed the operating system’s version stamp. Until now, the previews have called themselves version 1803, the release from earlier this year. […]
Watching Twitter and Facebook commit reputational suicide over the past 20 months has been as painful as it has been entertaining — entertaining in the sense that all anyone had to do was let the companies be themselves. The cost has been terrible, on democracy, the free press, at-risk populations and soon, I’ll wager, on […]
A new approach to combining Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity with quantum physics could come out of a paper published in the journal Nature Physics. The insights could help build a successful theory of quantum gravity, something that has so far eluded physicists. Magdalena Zych from University of Queensland in Australia and Caslav Brukner from […]
Samsung wants to tame your smart home and end your WiFi deadspots, with its new SmartThings Wifi mesh router system. Promising not only smoother internet access for things like online gaming, streaming media, and general browsing, the mesh networking system also integrates an IoT hub that could leave you spending less time jumping between apps […]
Today at SIGGRAPH 2018 NVIDIA announced ‘Turing’, their next-generation GPU architecture aimed at real-time ray tracing, and the first high-end GPUs built atop it, the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000. The cards are the first to include the recently revealed VirtualLink port, a new connection standard specially designed for next-generation VR headsets. Ray tracing—a […]
Researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which could enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum computers. A quantum computer is a theoretical machine with the potential to solve complex problems much faster than conventional computers. Researchers are currently working on the next step in quantum computing—building a […]
The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials scientists in the 2000s, but one nanoscale carbon structure—a negatively curved surface called a schwarzite—has eluded everyone. Until now. University of California, Berkeley, chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by […]
Spotify may expand an option for users of its ad-supported music streaming service where they can choose to skip ads. The option is currently available to all users of its ad-supported service in Australia, Spotify confirmed in a statement. The idea behind the option is allowing its users to personalize the advertising they hear or […]
Many mobile security flaws revolve around obvious avenues like websites or deep, operating system-level exploits. The security team at Check Point, however, has discovered another path: apps that make poor use of external storage like SD cards. While apps would ideally stick to internal storage (which Google sandboxes against outside influence) as much as possible, […]
Programmers tend to have their own distinct styles, but it’s not really feasible to pore over many lines of code looking for telltale cues about a program’s author. Now, that might not be necessary. Researchers have developed a machine learning system that can ‘de-anonymize’ programmers, whether it’s through raw source code or compiled binaries. As […]
As more of the world’s data and information technology moves to cloud-based systems, it’s no surprise that some of the most popular cloud services would emerge and become hot growth areas for hungry IT professionals. And two of the most explosive new job arenas are opening up in DevOps and the Amazon Web Services platform. […]
