🛍 AMAZON PRIME DAY 2016 ◄ What to expect? 🛍
In time for Wimbledon, Virgin Active is trialling The Drone-ovic a drone that drops tennis b***s from above to achieve that perfect serve at its Northwood club tennis courts
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A year from now, Google, Amazon and Apple might be listening in on your living room. And youll be glad of it. All three of those companies are working on or have announced voice assistants that sit in peoples houses and talk to them. The boxes which function as speakers, and look like them too are meant do everything from asking questions to operating various parts of peoples houses
An imitation of Facebook apparently set up for North Koreans has already been hacked and sent offline, just days after it was discovered. Internet company Dyn Research found the site hosted in North Korea and created to look almost exactly like Facebook and discovered that it was accessible for anyone in the world. But days later a college student got access to the site because it had been secured with just a default password
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Do you have an old broken smartphone lying around the house somewhere? Then why not turn it into a robot? That"s exactly what YouTuber Mehdi Sadaghdar did in a recent video, after his efforts to bring a destroyed phone back to life disastrously failed. Using the phone"s vibrator, a coin battery, a simple switch, a few wires and the bristly part of a toothbrush, he managed to make a simple little toy that can skitter around a tabletop as long as the battery last
A Ukrainian inventor has proposed building airliners with detachable passenger cabins that could separate from the rest of the plane and parachute safely to the ground in the event of an emergency
The FA has announced that for the first time ever it will host the inaugural Emirates FA Cup gaming tournament, with video game fans from across the world invited to compete for glory at Wembley Stadium connected by EE. Early rounds will take place in iconic locations in the stadium such as The Royal Box, the changing rooms and the players tunnel, with the two finalists set to play the virtual final using Wembley Stadiums 82 foot screens as they sit in the centre circle. Gamers of varying ability will descend upon Wembley Stadium as the home of football transforms into an epic gaming colosseum set to turn heads and sweat palms in equal measure
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Oculus has said that it is about to open pre-orders for its Rift virtual reality headset. Some have claimed that the hardware will be the device that will bring virtual reality into the mainstream. And it will start being available from 6 January 2016, the company has said. The company hasnt said when the headsets will actually start arriving, or how much they will cost. It isnt clear whether the company intends to announce more details before pre-orders begin
A new trick shows a quick way of getting rid of the stock apps that might be cluttering up your iPhone screen at least for a while. The iPhone comes with a range of apps that are stuck on the phone, and can"t be deleted like others. While some are key to the phone like the Phone app itself others like Stocks are less well-regarded. But the new trick shows how you can hide those unused stock apps with just a quick trick using some folders
The CES 2016 gadget show is about to kick off, and nearly the entire technology industry has descended on Las Vegas to try and show off the future. Every year, companies and technologists attempt to show that they have seen whats coming and that they will be there to offer it. Every year, a lot of people get it wrong. This years expectations are as big as ever. Every year, CES unofficially gets a big theme that everythings supposed to be about this year thats virtual reality. There is also future for cars, smart home and wearables
A government counter-terrorism adviser has warned that terrorists could use commercially available drones to attack passenger planes. Detective Chief Inspector Colin Smith, a security expert and adviser to the Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology, warned that small quadcopter drones could easily be used by terrorists for attacks and propaganda purposes
Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, UK, has installed Sony Bravia 4K TVs into its lemur and langur enclosures to show life-like footage to its primates as part of its Back to the Wild programme. The charity will trial TV watching on Sonys 4K TVs as part of this programme in a bid to make langurs more familiar with the new environment
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Uber has added a lift-sharing feature to its app in London, allowing people to share their taxi with a stranger in return for a reduced fair. Users will be given 25 per cent off their journey if they say they will let up to two other passengers share their car. Drivers will then receive a message telling them that theyll be picking up more than one fare, and can plan their route accordingly. London is the second European country to get the feature, after Paris. It was first launched in San Francisco and now most people who use the app do so with the feature
An attempt to build the worlds biggest Rubiks cube ended in disaster when the puzzle exploded as it was turned for the first time. One of the masterminds behind Coren Puzzle, a YouTube channel dedicated to custom puzzles, live-streamed the final assembly of the 22x22 cube. The video was the culmination of seven months of construction, which included a month of deliberation on how to build the mechanism at the centre of the device
The maker of a new chip claims that it could reduce the charging times of phones to a few minutes, and could prevent dangerous explosions. The tiny chip could be embedded into batteries of all sizes and monitor how healthy and charged they are. That in turn would mean that the batteries would become much safer and quicker to charge, according to the scientist that developed it. Unhealthy lithium-ion batteries can be at risk of exploding or catching fire, as well as gradually losing their capacity so that they run out more quickly. Those problems may become even more important as people move towards electric cars or other vehicles
If you"ve noticed articles on Facebook loading a little quicker recently, that"s because the new Instant Articles have been launched to all iPhone users. Instant Articles load up to 10 times quicker than a regular article, and have some enriched features - such as unobtrusive autoplay videos, zoomable high-definition images and interactive maps
Gamers looking forward to playing Halo 5: Guardians on its release on 27 October 2015 will have to wait to download a 9GB day one patch before the game"s multiplayer mode can run properly. Those without the patch won"t even be able to play multiplayer at all until it"s downloaded, in yet another case of a blockbuster game needing a patch on the day of launch
HTC has launched its latest Desire 626 handset with the Sense 7 software which automatically detects whether youre at work, at home or on-the-go and alters its theme to suit your location. This advanced technology intelligently analyses your favourite photos to modify the look and feel of your apps, allowing you to modify the colour scheme and backgrounds the ultimate in personalisation
Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae or dark patches on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts.
Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive 3D Touch display
The car is displayed at Downing Street, when the team visited David Cameron to demonstrate the project
Artist"s rendering of Nasa"s LRO spacecraft, which will have to withstand a rapid drop in temperature during an upcoming lunar eclipse that could lead to it shutting down
The regulator will now charge far more to phone companies for using the mobile spectrum and though it says that fee will not be passed on to customers, experts have said that prices are likely to go up
Apple has released a bright pink new iPhone 6s likely the only way that youll be able to tell that someone has the new handset. The company released the new phone with much fanfare, but almost all of the changes a new camera and pressure-sensitive display were on the inside. The only new noticeable addition to the phones look is the very pink rose gold colour, and a tiny S on the back. The new handsets will be released on September 25
Apple has launched a huge new iPad, which it hopes can bring the tablet to offices and designers. But it unveiled it with an Apple-designed stylus an idea that was famously mocked by late Apple founder Steve Jobs
Apple has introduced the new Apple TV
Apple has introduced the new Apple Pencil
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/amazon-prime-day-deals-ps4-xbox-one-games-apple-macbook-ipad-chromebook-microsoft-surface-lg-tv-a7132426.html
