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Friday
Oct162015

New iPhone 6S ad focuses on 3D Touch

Apple's iPhone 6S enjoys the advantage of being the only device to feature the new 3D Touch functionality and this latest ad from Apple does a very good job of quickly demonstrating what 3D Touch can accomplish. Look out for the Jamie Foxx cameo. Does anyone know whose voice is narrating the ad?

Thursday
Oct152015

New ResearchKit studies for autism, epilepsy and melanoma released by Apple

Apple announced that ResearchKit is enabling new research studies on autism, epilepsy and melanoma. ResearchKit turns iPhone into a powerful tool for medical research by helping doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using iPhone apps.

With ResearchKit, study participants can review an interactive informed consent process, easily complete active tasks or submit survey responses, and choose how their health data is shared with researchers, making contributions to medical research easier than ever. Researchers and developers have already contributed to ResearchKit, with more than 50 researchers adding to the open source framework.

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Friday
Oct092015

Review: Apple iPhone 6S

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla 

The iPhone story for 2015 is remarkable in that it is an ‘S’ year, which usually means incremental changes with no obvious physical difference from last year’s model, but Apple’s given the iPhone 6S a complete structural and functional makeover.

The iPhone story is one of constant and steady improvement with various leapfrog innovations along the way. Let's count some of them. Multi-touch, mobile apps, app store, voice assistants, finger-print sensors, video calling, mobile payments are just some of the features that were propelled into the mainstream. Let's see what the iPhone 6S has to offer

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Wednesday
Oct072015

Video: HP's ENVY 8 tablet and keyboard combo offers ultimate portable productivity

Many believe 8-inches to be the sweet spot when it comes to tablets. That is, they are usually compact enough to hold in one hand and a good size for consuming video as well as short interactions with social media, email, and games. For typing, not so much. Usually the smaller keyboards designed around these small tablets are ergonomic nightmares that suck the joy out of typing. HP's ENVY 8 Windows 10 tablet tries to give users both. A full-featured Windows 10 device (with 4G-LTE connectivity to boot) and an accessory keyboard that's more for a 10-inch device and stable. Check out the design video above, this device is going to be on many people's want list come Novemember when it ships.