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Nvidia’s new 20-series video cards, due to ship next week, will introduce a new overclocking system: Scanner. Overclocking is typically a trial-and-error process: increase the clock speed, run some intensive workloads to make sure everything works OK, maybe fiddle with the GPU voltage to eke out a bit more stability. Push the clock speed too […]
Mankind’s hunt for alien life and potentially habitable planets continues Monday, when a new rocket will push through the Earth’s atmosphere carrying precious NASA cargo. Instead of the regular care packages usually sent to NASA astronauts on the International Space Station, SpaceX hopes to fire an exoplanet satellite known as TESS into the great expanse. […]
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German technology giant Bosch is mostly known for making home appliances. And at IFA 2017, the company is showing off a concept that it hopes can add a new dimension to those products. The X-Spect is a portable device that detects fabric composition, scans stains and figures out what your food is composed of. As […]
EXCLUSIVE: Buying clothes and apparel over the internet is still a tricky business, but it is hugely lucrative. And increasingly, smartphones are driving retail growth. In 2016 — as noted in VB Insight’s latest research — mobile devices influenced $ 500 billion in sales, and $ 140 billion of that was driven directly by mcommerce. […]
There have been rumours of Apple exploring under-display fingerprint scanning technology, but you probably didn’t expect the first of such demos to come from China. At MWC Shanghai, Qualcomm announced its latest ultrasonic fingerprint solution, with the new highlights being its integration underneath OLED displays (up to 1.2mm-thick), as well as working fine even when […]
Enlarge (credit: Chaos Computer Club) Hackers have broken the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone in an easy-to-execute attack that’s at odds with the manufacturer’s claim that the mechanism is “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked.” The cost of the hack is less than the $ 725 price for an […]
Biometrics are becoming our next de facto security measure, and they’re supposed to be a vast improvement on easily-forgotten and hackable passwords. Yet a point-and-shoot camera, laser printer and contact lens is all it took for German hacking group Chaos Computer Club to crack the Samsung Galaxy S8‘s iris scanner. “By far [the] most expensive […]
Deep below the earth, it’s pitch black, so dark and far from the sun that you can’t even see your hands. All hope would be lost in Introversion’s Scanner Sombre if not for the game’s signature device, a LIDAR scanner that colors in the surrounding world and lets you embark on an adventure into the […]
Two years ago, Nomiku began its journey to bring its Wi-Fi-enabled sous vide device to market, first raising $ 750,000 through a Kickstarter campaign and then adding $ 250,000 more during an appearance on the reality show Shark Tank. More than $ 3 million worth of products has been sold, and on Wednesday, the company is […]
