Today is Raspberry Pi’s fifth birthday: it’s five years since we launched the original Raspberry Pi, selling a hundred thousand units in the first day, and setting us on the road to a lifetime total (so far) of over twelve… Read More ›
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Gemini PDA: the most exciting mobile product I have seen in 10 years
The folks at UK-based Planet Computers want to bring back the idea of a small, clamshell computer. And they’ve partnered with the designer of the classic Psion Series 5 to do it. The Gemini is basically a tiny laptop featuring… Read More ›
Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings
A company that sells internet-connected teddy bears that allow kids and their far-away parents to exchange heartfelt messages left more than 800,000 customer credentials, as well as two million message recordings, totally exposed online for anyone to see and… Read More ›
You Can’t Go Back To Large Bezeled Phones
The LG G6, unveiled at MWC yesterday, is only going to make the chunkiness of the Pixels/HTC 10s/iPhone 7s of the world that much more apparent. Photos don’t really do this phone justice — you have to hold it in… Read More ›
The BlackBerry KeyOne
There isn’t much I can add about the BlackBerry KeyOne that hasn’t already been written in the past 24 hours. It looks good in an ungainly kind of way that suggests the keyboard has been squeezed below the screen. However, if… Read More ›
iPhone Robbers Try to iPhish Victims
In another strange tale from the kinetic-attack-meets-cyberattack department, earlier this week I heard from a loyal reader in Brazil whose wife was recently mugged by three robbers who nabbed her iPhone. Not long after the husband texted the stolen phone… Read More ›
Can Apple Reverse The Ipad Sales Free-Fall?
Apple posted its first full-year iPad sales dip in fiscal 2014. Unit sales slipped 4 percent that year, while revenue fell 5 percent. The sales declines accelerated thereafter. In fiscal 2015, unit sales plunged 19 percent and revenue dropped by… Read More ›
The ‘new’ Nokia 3310
Evan Blass also known as evleaks, who first revealed the existence of a new Nokia 3310, now claims the phone would run Nokia Series 30+, the same operating system that is running in both Nokia 150 and its dual-SIM spin-off…. Read More ›
Twitter is locking accounts
Last night, developer Victoria Fierce had some harsh words for Vice President Mike Pence. Incensed over the Trump administration’s recent rollback of transgender protections, Fierce let loose on Pence. “Fuck you,” she tweeted. “I gotta piss, and you’re putting me —… Read More ›
The first phone to meet 18 US military standards
MIL-STD-810G rated in the following 18 categories: Blowing rain of 1.7mm/min for 30 minutes in six directions; Immersion in water for 30 minutes at a depth of 1.5m; Rain drops from a height of 1m (15 minutes); Sand and dust… Read More ›
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