Amazon just announced a brand new addition to its Kindle Paperwhite line that brings in some of the best technology we saw on the Kindle Oasis (2017) and puts it into a more affordable package. The new Kindle Paperwhite has a waterproof design that can survive being submerged up to two meters for 60 minutesRead more about Amazon's new Kindle Paperwhite adopts the best parts of the Kindle Oasis[…]

With the tremendous growth of smartphones over the past decade, foundry sales to the communications market have soared. Ten years ago, computers/computing systems were easily the largest application for pure-play IC foundry sales, but a relatively flat tablet PC market and lackluster desktop and notebook PC sales since 2011 contributed to weak pure-play foundry salesRead more about Comms take largest foundry share[…]

If you’re regularly making presentations in your line of work, then making sure you buy the best business projector that suits your needs will be essential. Getting the right business projector can help transform your presentations and meetings, making them more engaging, interactive and professional. In our list of the best business projectors of 2018,Read more about The best business projectors in the UAE for 2018[…]

A study, led by Surrey education researcher Dr Anesa Hosein – who declares a “geek girl gamer” past, according to the University, found that 13-14 year old girls classed as ‘heavy gamers’ (>9 hours a week gaming) were three times more likely to pursue a PSTEM degree compared to girls who were non-gamers. Hosein’s beliefRead more about Seek gamers if you want female engineers[…]

One of the most exciting features announced for this year’s iPhones was their ability to finally support dual SIMs through a traditional nano SIM card tray and the newer embedded SIM (e-SIM) technology found in IoT devices and on Apple Watch series 3 in the UAE.  e-SIMs are essentially an electronic version of the SIMRead more about du and Etisalat will offer e-SIM capabilities for iPhones by end of October[…]

Solar-thermal generation – where sunlight is focussed onto structures that absorb it as heat, which is then used to drive turbine-style generators – is proposed as an alternative to photo-voltaic generation, with the particular advantage that heat can be stored in bulk. “Storing solar energy as heat can already be cheaper than storing energy viaRead more about Better solar thermal electricity conversion[…]

TechRadar partners with NCSAM NCSAM was launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance & the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October 2004 to make sure that our online lives – at work and at home – are kept safe and secure. That’s what National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) – observed in October – isRead more about Why your small business team needs a VPN[…]

Dubbed NMiTE, it is the first in a wave of government-promoted higher education ‘challengers’, due to receive its initial intake of student engineers in September 2019. “Britain desperately needs to boost productivity, technical skills and graduate employability,” said NMiTE chair of trustees Dame Fiona Kendrick. “This project, driven by employers, is contributing a potential solutionRead more about UK engineering university launched in Hereford[…]

Ask any console gamer, and they’ll likely tell you about the perennial rivalry between the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. However, PC gamers have their own eternal feud, albeit without the headlines: Nvidia vs AMD. Although you may have never heard about it before, the sheer amount of innovation and competition that has sprungRead more about Nvidia vs AMD: which should be your next graphics card?[…]

To give computers some idea where on the scale their output might be, and how to improve it if need be, researchers at Columbia University and Tufts University have invented a technique called ‘pixel approximate entropy’. “This is a brand new approach to working with line charts with many different potential applications,” said engineer GabrielRead more about Technique tells machines which graphs can be understood by humans[…]