The grand unveiling of the iPhone 7 is still a couple months away, but if you can’t wait to get your hands on an iPhone with a dual-lens camera it’s actually incredibly easy to make one at home. All you need is two iPhone 6s units, some special tools and a little attention to detail…
Month: June 2016
Can You Identify Your PC’s Parts?
I remember a funny incident that happened to me during my networking lab. I always knew network cable and jack by the name of RJ 45 but one day, when my friends began calling a jack, the male adapter, and port, the female adapter, I was surprised and equally amused. Later, when I came to…
Startup builds AI to automate all accounting
Smacc, which uses AI to automate accounting, has secured a $3.5 million Series A round from Cherry Ventures, Rocket Internet, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures, Grazia Equity and business angels. Smacc offers small and medium-sized enterprises a platform to digitize and automate accounting and financial processes. The founding trio Uli Erxleben, Janosch Novak and Stefan Korsch…
Scientists Connect Brain to a Basic Tablet—Paralyzed Patient Googles With Ease
For patient T6, 2014 was a happy year. That was the year she learned to control a Nexus tablet with her brain waves, and literally took her life quality from 1980s DOS to modern era Android OS. A brunette lady in her early 50s, patient T6 suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou…
Twenty Satellites Launched By India And It Looked Absolutely Amazing
The underdog of the space game is bearing its teeth once again. On Wednesday morning (22 June), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched a record-breaking 20 satellites up to the heavens. ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C34) successfully launched its 1,288-kilogram (2,838-pound) bundle of intentional satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an island off…
Tesla Autopilot tests show the vehicle detecting pedestrians, but not necessarily braking to avoid them
Update: Tesla sent us a statement regarding the tests discussed in this article. You can see it in full below. The Tesla Autopilot program can be confusing at times since it englobes a lot of different features like Traffic Aware Cruise Control (TACC), Autosteer, Autopark, Auto Emergency Braking (AEB) and others. While you can look…
What Is The “Tree Of Death” ?
Although it resides on chilled-out, tourist-friendly beaches, the manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella) seems hell-bent on its vendetta against humanity. This tree can found in the Caribbean, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, parts of northern South America, The Galápagos Islands and even in the U.S. state of Florida. When the Spanish first found the tree during their…
This LA Skyscraper Now Features A 300-Meter-High Glass Slide
Earlier this month, China unveiled the world’s highest, longest, and most terrifying glass bridge in the world. With the world’s mental masochists apparently not satisfied, a Los Angeles skyscraper has now opened a glass slide that juts out from the 70th floor. The US Bank Tower, one of Los Angeles’ tallest towers, now features a 13.7-meter-long (45-foot-long) slide made…
A pear-shaped nucleus just confirmed, and it could ruin time travel forever
Physicists have confirmed the existence of a new form of atomic nuclei, and the fact that it’s not symmetrical challenges the fundamental theories of physics that explain our Universe. But that’s not as bad as it sounds, because the discovery could help scientists solve one of the biggest mysteries in theoretical physics – where is…
The World Is Better Than You Think
Why This Is Important Before I share the new “data” with you, it’s essential that you understand why this matters. We live in a world where we are constantly bombarded by negative news from every angle. If you turn on CNN (what I call the Crisis News Network), you’ll predominantly hear about death, terrorism, airplane…
Google engineer fried his ($1000 Chromebook Pixel) for 10$
Benson Leung, a Google engineer discovered the fright of using dodgy gadgets when a spurious USB Type-C cable fired his $1000 Chromebook Pixel. Leung who also moonlights as a tester for USB Type-C cables finally found his match when he was testing a Surjtech 3M USB A-to-C cable which is available on Amazon for $9.98. The spurious…
the difference between Intel Core i3, i5, i7
“‘What’s the difference between an Intel Core i3, i5 and i7?’ is a pretty confusing and intimidating question for the majority of people. On the surface, processors are a little tougher to get your head around than, say, a hard drive, as they are not measured by a metric as simple as capacity in gigabytes…