Dr Damien Coyle from NeuroConcise has been working on his innovation for 15 years – and now it’s one of 12 to make it through to the final of the Invent 2015, a programme run by the Northern Ireland Science Park. The Londonderry man said: “NeuroConcise will benefit people who have no means of communication whatsoever. “A lot of …
Xiaomi Mi Band Review
Xiaomi has managed to take the Indian smartphone market by the storm. All the devices it launched in the Indian market turned out to be runaway successes, so when it launched a fitness band in India, this April, all eyes were on them. So, will Mi Band revolutionalize the wearable space in India? Let’s try to find …
Popular Free VPN Service Hola Selling Users’ Bandwidth for Botnets
Hola Better Internet, a VPN (virtual private network) service best known for its easy-to-use Chrome extension, is selling its free users’ unused bandwidth via its Luminati brand to anyone. Now reports are emerging the latter service has been used for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on websites. If true, this means that free Hola users’ machines are being turned …
Time-traveling detective game ‘D4’ hits PC on June 5th
D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die is a wonderfully strange detective game with a twist: There’s a bullet lodged in your skull that allows you to touch certain objects and travel back in their timelines, to places and events pivotal to their existence. As a hardened Boston investigator, you’re searching for the people who brutally killed your wife …
Round-The-World Solar Plane Readies For It Greatest Challenge
Solar Impulse (Si2), the solar plane on a mission to fly around the globe without a drop of fuel, is all set for a challenging 8,000-km journey on Tuesday, flying non-stop from Nanjing in China to Hawaii in the central Pacific, a media report said on Monday. For Si2, which is powered by more than 17,000 solar …
Micromax Canvas Doodle 4 With Android 5.0 Lollipop Reportedly Launched at Rs. 9,499
Micromax has reportedly launched the fourth variant of the Canvas Doodle series, the Canvas Doodle 4, in India at Rs. 9,499 (MRP Rs. 9,999), as tipped by an established Mumbai-based retailer. The company is yet to make an official announcement or list the device on its India site. According to retailer Mahesh Telecom, who posted the details of …
Google Aims to Get 20 Million Indian SMEs Online by 2017
Google India will get 20 million small and medium enterprises (SME) online by 2017 by using a simple mobile-based app called ‘Google My Business’, that will help businesses to create and manage their information across Google products for free in both Hindi and English, a company statement said on Tuesday. With over 300 million plus Internet users and …
HTC One M9 Tipped to Receive Guest Mode and More in Next Major Update
Since its launch at MWC conference this year, the HTC One M9 has been runningAndroid 5.0 Lollipop out-of-the-box. However, some Lollipop features, such as Guest Mode, were seen missing from the handset. Now, an HTC developer has tipped that the next major update for the smartphone will bring that feature, alongside the colour temperature feature. According to LlabTooFeR, …
Chrome for Android Goes Open Source; Now Anyone Build a Chromium Browser for Android
Following the Chrome for Android team’s announcement on Reddit AMA last week, Google has now uploaded the remaining Chrome for Android source code to its Chromium repository. This would let any developer build an open source browser based on Chrome for Android. The announcement came via Reddit where a Chrome for Android engineer posted, “After lots of work …
Google Not Launching A Nexus Tablet This Year, Sticking With Two Nexus Phones Instead
A new rumor from inside sources has mentioned that Google will not launch a successor to the HTC Nexus 9 tablet later this year. It is said that the Mountain View company will simply stick to the rumored LG and Huawei Nexus smartphones instead. The LG Nexus phone is believed to be carrying a 5.2-inch display while …