With all the recent rumors that Apple will build an electric car within the next few years, obviously Cupertino is going to be compared to the big electric car company of the moment, Tesla Motors. Tesla sold more than 50,000 model S sedans in 2015, so I’m taking a look at four Apple Car lessons…
Author: Ahmad Alhasan
An approaching graduate who aims to change the world through inventions, IT, energy technologies and social relief. An avid and persistent learner who looks to bypass the normal path of university and meaningless work by joining a dynamic team and jumpstarting my career in producing real world technological solutions.
Turn Your Smartphone into Any Kind of Sensor
It started when NASA answered a call for a tool to detect dangerous gases and chemicals with a smartphone. The result became a smartphone-linked device that can do, well, just about anything someone can build a sensor for. The NODE+ platform can be outfitted with an array of different sensor modules for detecting light, gases,…
Zombie Genes That Wake Up After You Die Could Help To Predict Time Of Death
Though bringing people back from the dead is still a little beyond the reach of even the most morbidly ambitious scientists, new research has indicated that there is indeed some semblance of life after death, as some genes appear to “wake up” in the days after the fat lady sings. According to a new study…
Is Iceland’s Dangerous Hekla Volcano About To Explode?
Iceland, quite rightly, is famous for its diverse, beautiful, and active volcanoes. Although Eyjafjallajokull’s 2010 eruption led to the most extensive shutdown of European airspace since the Second World War, it isn’t considered to be a particularly dangerous volcano. Hekla, on the other hand, is, and one researcher thinks that it’s about to blow its…
Robot surgeons might soon replace humans for complicated procedures
Anyone who has either gone under the knife or who has had someone close to them go under the knife can readily attest that the entire surgical process is harrowing. Even when the primary objective of an operation goes smoothly, the risk of problematic complications always looms overhead. It’s no exaggeration to state that the…
Samsung and Sharp Said to be Ramping up OLED Production for 2017 iPhone
Up to this point, the iPhone lineup has used an LCD panel for its displays. But Apple isn’t completely against OLED. That fact was proven back when the Apple Watch launched, which uses an OLED panel. And if the Rumor Mill is any indicator, Apple plans on making a bigger adoption of the technology at…
The iPad Pro is Great, Now Just Make the Smart Keyboard Better
The Smart Keyboard is a great first step, but when compared to readily available Bluetooth keyboards the missing parts stand out. When Apple first introduced the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, I had two very distinct thoughts: Those speakers probably sound amazing, and I don’t need a tablet that big. It wouldn’t take long for both of…
iOS 10 Beta Features Unencrypted Kernel Making it Easier to Discover Vulnerabilities
Apple’s iOS 10 preview, seeded to developers last week, does not feature an encrypted kernel and thus gives users access to the inner workings of the operating system and potential security flaws, reports MIT Technology Review. It is not known if this was an unintentional mistake or done deliberately to encourage more bug reports. Security…
How Apple Got Slapped For Making Fun Of People Using Older Windows PCs
Short: At its iPhone SE launch event, Apple compared its new iPad with older Windows computers and called it a perfect PC-replacement. In this process, Apple’s marketing VP Phill Schiller went on to call the old Windows PCs “sad”. As a result, the company had to face widespread criticism in media and social networks. Yesterday,…
New Paper Explains How The “Impossible” EM Drive Might Work
The controversial EM Drive might soon become a lot less controversial if a new hypothesis about how it works is confirmed. According to a new study, published in AIP Advances, from researchers in Finland, the EM drive is not a true propeller-less engine, so it does not violate the third law of dynamics. The physicists suggest that…
Here’s How Someone Made a PiPhone- A Raspberry Pi Based Smartphone
Short Bytes: In this article, I’m going to share how someone made a “PiPhone”. Well, as the name suggests, PiPhone is a Raspberry Pi based smartphone that can make actual calls. Let’s know more. Raspberry Pi is today’s most popular development board and it’s continuing to receive tons of love from developers and DIYers. Today…
Here are the five must read books if you are a coder/programmer
Every coder and wannabe programmer should read these five ‘must have’ books Books, which was once considered as a great source of knowledge and wisdom are hardly been read by people these days. To add to that, it is an even fewer occurrence a programmer reading books, as they mostly depend on the internet search…
