Shares of Best Buy jumped on Thursday after it announced plans to create store-within-store kiosks for Samsung products — a vote of confidence from a major consumer electronics retailer that the brick-and-mortar format is still an important way to sell products. Best Buy shares rose more than 16 percent Thurday. The Minneapolis-based company has battled […]
Artificial intelligence
Quantum Tricks Drive Magnetic Switching into the Fast Lane
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, and the University of Crete in Greece have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory technologies. Magnetic switching is used to encode information in hard drives, magnetic random access memory, […]
Teardown: Absopulse Variable Frequency Converter
In this EEVblog teardown, inside the Absopulse Variable Frequency Converter, made in Canada!
The Technology of Touch
As we move through the world, we have an innate sense of how things feel — the sensations they produce on our skin and how our bodies orient to them. Can technology leverage this? In this fun, fascinating TED-Ed lesson, learn about the field of haptics, and how it could change everything from the way […]
RFID Event to Feature Record Number of New Products
RFID Journal announced today that a record number of new products will be exhibited at RFID Journal LIVE! 2013 (https://www.rfidjournalevents.com/live), a conference and exhibition focused on radio frequency identification (RFID) and its many business applications. LIVE! 2013 will be held from Apr. 30 to May 2, 2013, at the Orange County Convention Center, located in […]
The Bigger Bill of a Connected Future
As companies begin to connect thermostats, cars, and glasses to the Internet, carriers are looking for a way to bill those items. Wireless carriers are all looking at ways to get the lives of consumers onto their networks and get them to pay for a connected life. CNN tech reporter David Goldman explains.
Introducing Google Nose
Google has announced their newest addition to Search: Google Nose. What do wet dogs smell like? Google Nose! How about victory? Google Nose! Try searching on Google for “wet dog” and explore other smells that people sniffed for, or visit google.com/nose to learn more.
A Low-Power 60 GHz Radio Frequency Chip
As the capacity of handheld devices increases to accommodate a greater number of functions, these devices have more memory, larger display screens, and the ability to play higher definition video files. If the users of mobile devices, including smartphones, tablet PCs, and notebooks, want to share or transfer data on one device with that of […]
HotSpot Episode 6: Phantom Quadcopter
This week on WDD’s HotSpot: DJI’s new GPS equipped Phantom is an aerial platform for the FOPRO HERO action cam. Featuring a lithium polymer battery, an RGB LED indicator, an Enhanced fail-safe feature, and an Intelligent Orientation Control, this quad-copter makes one nifty little radio-controlled aircraft. Digital music performer, Omni Infinity, has created the SPACEBASS, […]
Death of a Supercomputer
It’s the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world’s fastest supercomputer. The $121 million supercomputer, housed at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons research laboratories in northern New Mexico, will be decommissioned Sunday. The reason? The world of supercomputing is evolving and Roadrunner has […]