The next generation of Microsoft Surface, made by Samsung, is now available for pre-order on the manufacturer's website. [......]
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Can machines imitate how humans think? [......]
The rankings of the top 500 supercomputers on the planet have been updated, with the University of Edinburgh's Cray the UK's only entry in the top 50 of a list topped by Japan's Fujitsu K computer. [......]
Warren Buffett, America's most wealthy billionaire, has dipped his toes in the tech sector by buying a 5.4 per cent stake in IBM, for over $10 billion (£6.3 billion). [......]
After managing to successfully hold onto the top spot in TechRadar's 20 best mobile phones in the world ranking, we've teamed up with Samsung to offer one lucky reader the chance to bag their very own Samsung Galaxy S2. The top-end features on Samsung's flagship handset are almost too many to mention, packing in a Super AMOLED Plus 4.3-inch screen, a blisteringly fast 1.2GHz dual core processor (with 1GB of RAM to manage all that power) and is one of the slimmest phones on the market, at just 8.5mm thick. But it's not just the hardware that's impressed us, it's the range of features on board too[......]
It's been an exciting week for Android fans: we've seen the shape of things to come, and it's a vehicle. That's what Gary Marshall reckons, anyway: according to him , the new Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime eschews me-too design "and turns into a truck". It doesn't really, but its blockbuster movie branding doesn't stop with references to robots in disguise: the Transformer Prime also boasts a Superman-inspired Kal-El processor, better known as a Tegra 3 [......]
The UK's Tech City has come of age with smartphone apps for iPhone and Android, fittingly created in the UK using UK tech for the UK government. The apps, which are published by HM Government, bring news, events and "exclusive content" relating to the East London tech hub right to your smartphone. An app wouldn't be an app without some form of augmented reality and the Tech City app knows it, using AR features built by Autonomy, the British firm recently bought for crazy money by HP [......]
LG has signed a deal with Intellectual Ventures, a company that owns many an innovation right, so that it may continue to create new products without fear that it will be sued over the technology within them. [......]
The winner of the 2011 James Dyson Award is an entry from an Australian engineer who came up with a low-cost, self-powered way of extracting water from the air. Swinburne University of Technology's Edward Linacre was inspired by the Australian drought and the humble Namib beetle, leading him to come up with Airdrop. The ingenious design lowers air temperature by piping it through underground pipes to extract the water through condensation. [......]
Some thoroughly depressing and thoroughly predictable news from The Guardian : two-thirds of UK adults think social networks should be shut down during riots .They're in good company, because David Cameron thinks that's a good idea too. If you're wondering why on earth so many people would want to shut down services that were overwhelmingly used for good - to defuse rumours, to warn of troublespots and to share transport information - then you don't need to wonder for very long: the pro-ban camp just happens to be the doesn't-use-social-media camp. [......]
UPDATED: Best Buy has confirmed that its UK Best Buy stores will close, and that the retailer will buy Carphone Warehouse's US mobile phone business for a reported fee in excess of $1 billion. Carphone Warehouse partnered up with Best Buy to launch the UK best Buy stores, but it seems that the venture has not been as successful as the two hoped. The 11 'pilot' electronic retail stores that have been launched in the UK have been closed, with an announcement today. [......]
A Microsoft spokesperson has slammed Google for its 'see if it sticks' approach to product development, claiming that the 'Google graveyard' full of defunct programmes shows that the search giant isn't able to provide reliable services for business users. Tom Rizzo, director of Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies, wrote a blog post likening Google's product management to cooking spaghetti: "Google releases experimental products and tracks adoption to determine whether to continue providing them. Its products are like spaghetti, Google throws them up against the wall to see if they stick." Hasta la pasta To illustrate the point, he cites Google Wave, Google Aardvark and Google Buzz as three examples of non-stick spaghetti. [......]
Tech firms all have the same problem: sooner or later, you have to employ real human beings, and unfortunately, human beings aren't perfect. [......]
While your friends dreamed of becoming firemen and astronauts, did you spend your formative years fiddling with phones and wishing there were some kind of giant interactive slab you could watch movies on and brandish at commuters on the tube? If so, we want to hear from you. We need a new person to join the team at TechRadar covering mobile devices – that's anything from your mum's latest cheapo feature phone to cutting-edge, thin-as-a-shard-of-glass tablets. [......]
Sony has announced that it is likely to report its fourth consecutive loss this year, marking a full leap year set without turning a profit. The ever-lowering prices of televisions, weak demand, flooding affecting its Thai factories and unstable exchange rates have all taken their share of the blame from the company[......]
