Samsung folding phone is different—but also almost $2,000
Samsung unveiled a highly anticipated smartphone with a foldable screen in an attempt to break the innovation funk that has beset the smartphone market.
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Consumer & Gadgets
Xiaomi has been working on improvements for in-display fingerprint scanning
Fingerprint sensors—modern tools of convenience or awkwardly placed tools that are just plain difficult for instant use?
Robotics
Computer graphics researchers make drone navigation easier
Drone operators struggling to fly the multi-propeller device and take pictures simultaneously could soon have a much simpler method to steering flight.
Nov 28, 2018
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Engineering
Portable cancer test uses smartphone, new gold biosensor
Early diagnosis of cancer greatly improves the odds of successful treatment. Yet many people, especially in developing countries, lack access to facilities to detect the disease.
Oct 4, 2018
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Lab unveils the world's first rollable touch-screen tablet, inspired by ancient scrolls
A Queen's University research team has taken a page from history, rolled it up and created the MagicScroll – a rollable touch-screen tablet designed to capture the seamless flexible screen real estate of ancient scrolls ...
Aug 31, 2018
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Security
Cortana vulnerability has been patched
Microsoft has a security update regarding Cortana and it's worth a look.
Computer Sciences
Browser extension helps the visually impaired interpret online images
Imagine internet browsing without the ability to make sense of images. It's a problem that visually impaired computer users face every day. While screen reading technology gives users audible access to written content, it ...
Feb 12, 2018
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Google video demonstrates 'stranger is looking alert' for smartphones
(Tech Xplore)—A pair of researchers at Google has released a video on YouTube demonstrating a possible new feature for Android phones—a "stranger is looking" alert that pops up if the phone detects another person behind ...
Security
Researchers explore how phone replacement screens could trigger attacks
People with cracked phone touch screens? What else is new? Many people drop their phones, shatter their screens and either put up with their cracked screens or run to shops for replacements. Now there is something to worry ...
Security
NTFS bug allows sites to crash Windows 7, 8.1
(Tech Xplore)—By Friday numerous tech sites including Ars Technica, delivered the bug discovery news, this time of strange NTFS bug making web pages crash for those still running Windows 7 or 8.1 on their PCs. NTFS refers ...
Screening
Screening, in general, is the investigation of a great number of something (for instance, people) looking for those with a particular problem or feature. One example is at an airport, where many bags get x-rayed to try to detect any which may contain weapons or explosives. People are also screened going through a metal detector. Even though the procedure aims at a large number of screens, it is always equivalent to sampling in statistics, because the complete population is almost always inaccessible for screening.
Screening has other, more specific meanings:
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