Science & Technology
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
ABOUT a year ago, Smart TVs started appearing on this side of the world, and boy, were they expensive.Then came the Pocket TV that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which instantly turned any normal TV, via a HDMI input, into a smart TV.It was on...
THE Nuvi 3560LM currently sits at the top of the line of Garmin car navigation units, and at RM1,130 ($460), has a premium price to match.What do you get for the price? Well, instead of a more plastic build, you get a device with better build...
HTC Corp reported a record-low quarterly profit on Monday that missed analysts' estimates after it delayed the full launch of its 2013 flagship smartphone model, which will now debut against Samsung Electronics' newest Galaxy.A shortage of cameras...
SEARCH giant Google is apparently in negotiations to buy popular messaging app WhatsApp, according to website digitaltrends.com.Negotiations have been going on for some weeks now, with WhatsApp holding out for an acquisition price that's close to US...
TECH industry experts claim that Apple is trying to launch its next tablet before the end of the month and that publications expect to receive invitations to the press event in the coming days.Over the last 24 hours, Branch, the social discussion...
THE latest rumours suggest that the now mythical Apple television will come with motion detecting jewellery and up to four specially adapted iPads.Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White claims that Apple is gearing up to launch a range of...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
SHRINKING the size of kids' plates and bowls and encouraging them to eat more frequently throughout the day might help them eat less and keep off extra weight, new research suggests.In one study, researchers found first graders served themselves...
THERE may be nearly four times as many people infected with the tropical disease dengue globally than was previously believed, according to a new study.The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated there are about 50 million to 100 million cases...
TO CRACK the code of the human brain, Cori Bargmann figures it's best to keep an open mind.As one of two leaders of a scientific "dream team" in the initial phase of President Barack Obama's ambitious US$100 million project to map the...
Monday, 8 April 2013
CONSERVATION workers will this week seek help from an unlikely set of allies. They will ask researchers working on synthetic biology the science of creating advanced manipulated organisms to help them save the world's endangered creatures and...
BRITAIN'S weather, always unpredictable, is now fluctuating on a grand scale and becoming increasingly hard to forecast long-term. The challenge for meteorologists is to explain these unexpected outbreaks of climatic unpleasantness. "There...
Saturday, 6 April 2013
BRITISH scientists have used a custom-made 3D printer to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes, according to findings released Thursday.The material is made up of thousands of connected water droplets,...
NANCY Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice ice that records our climate's past and could point to its future....
Friday, 5 April 2013
DEMENTIA costs more each year in the United States than cancer or heart disease, with annual costs ranging from US$157 billion to US$215 billion ($195 billion to $266 billion), according to a study released Wednesday.Much of the costs come from long...
IN A double blow, bald men may be at higher risk of coronary heart disease, said a study Wednesday, but only if the hair is lost at the crown.Men who bald from the front appear to carry no significant added risk for the clogged artery disease that...
SCIENTISTS on a quest for an antibody-based AIDS vaccine said Wednesday they found promising clues in the uncommonly "robust" natural immune response of a patient in Africa. Studying blood samples over a three-year period after the person...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
SINGAPOREANS tired of queuing at the counter for new passports can now collect them using the world's first dedicated self-service machine.The jukebox-style device, which was unveiled yesterday, uses facial-recognition technology and contains a...
HAWKS swoop in and gobble up songbirds. Raccoons feast on nests of eggs they never could have reached before. Salamanders and wildflowers fade away, crowded out by invasive plants that are altering the soil they need to thrive.Like a once-quiet...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
BRUNEIANS change their mobile phones so often that every other retail outlet in the country sells mobile handsets just to cater to the craze. And since Android is constantly evolving, new hardware was launched every six months.Now technology has...
TAIWANESE smartphone maker HTC's Butterfly is one of the company's first large-screen smartphones to land in Malaysia.The Android smartphone was released in Japan in June last year as the J Butterfly, and in the United States as the Droid DNA.As the...
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