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Advances at Oregon State University in manufacturing technology for “quantum dots” may soon lead to a new generation of LED lighting that produces a more user-friendly white light, while using less toxic materials and low-cost manufacturing processes that take advantage of simple microwave heating. The cost, environmental, and performance improvements could finally produce solid state … Read more
A design flaw has been uncovered in Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5, which can break the pen detection mechanism. Inserting the S Pen stylus the wrong way round (i.e. with the nib pointing out of the phone) gets the pen stuck, and – even after removing it – means that the Note 5 will no longer … Read more
The Perseus codec from V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) has been ported to run on Nvidia GPUs. GPU-enabled Perseus technology is now available to V-Nova customers. The parallel approach to signal processing means that Perseus can run on a GPU without any additional hardware, providing a ‘quantum leap in real-time video compression efficiency’, … Read more
V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of video compression solutions, today announced that its PERSEUS® advanced video processing technology has been ported to run on NVIDIA GPUs, powering V-Nova’s paradigm-shifting approach to video to new levels of compression performance. GPU-enabled PERSEUS technology is now commercially available to equipment vendors, system integrators, service providers and operators. PERSEUS … Read more
Pay-TV subscribers in Portugal rose 1.1% (33,000) QoQ and 5.6% (183,000) YoY in Q2, ending the period at 3.43 million customers. Most growth came from the rising popularity of fibre optic connections. Cable TV remained the most popular platform (1.4 million subs, 39.5% share, down 2.3% YoY). It was followed by xDSL (754,000 subs, 22% … Read more
LG will unveil its second-generation G Pad tablet – the G Pad II – at IFA next month – although, considering how comprehensive the information is that we’ve already seen, we’re not sure what the company has held back to ‘wow’ us with! The G Pad II 10.1 will be a 10.1″ slate with both … Read more
Exertis Home and Exertis IT in the UK have been appointed as official distributors for MMD’s Philips-branded monitors, for both the retail and B2B markets.
Mitsubishi Chemical and Pioneer have developed an OLED lighting panel that is almost completely free of blue light. The OLE-P0909-C3S module, which contains the panel, is already shipping. Produced using the wet coat process developed by Mitsubishi and Pioneer, the new panel has a colour temperature of 1,900K (candle light). It emits less than 1% … Read more
Credit: Dudu Rocha Tec, via YouTubeThere have been rumours about Blackberry phones running Android for several months, and now a video has appeared that supports the claims. A Blackberry Passport running Android can be seen in the video from Brazilian YouTuber Dudu Rocha Tec. Although the video is in Portuguese, features such as the ability … Read more
A Chinese site, WPDang, claims that Microsoft will hold an event on the 19th October, where it will show new mobile devices. These will include the Surface Pro 4 tablet, two Lumia smartphones and the Microsoft Band 2 wearable. The Verge and Nokia Power User have also talked about the event’s content and timing, backing … Read more
Jerry Shen, CEO of Asus, has said that the company will launch six or seven new Zenfone smartphones next year, with 5.5″ displays as the main screen size. The family will include one premium Zenfone Deluxe, two mainstream Zenfone Laser, one Zenfone Selfie, one Zenfone Max and one or two Zenfone Go models. The Zoom … Read more
In a rather nondescript pipe and drape booth at the SIGGRAPH VR Village earlier this month two Google employees sat under a – well, cardboard sign that simply read Google Cardboard. It is evidence of the latest initiative by the search engine behemoth to establish a beach head in the nascent VR – AR (Virtual … Read more
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