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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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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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.

BBC and Yahoo partnership will bring 200 news video clips monthly to US and Canada

Yahoo is teaming up with BBC to distribute about 200 of BBC's News video clips monthly to users in Canada and the United States. Our users in North America can now engage with the BBC’s short-form video content on international news, science, tech, and business reporting.

The new collaboration with Yahoo will focus on short-form video content with a particular focus on the BBC’s international news, science, tech and business reporting drawn from the BBC’s global site BBC.com. Around 200 BBC News videos will be syndicated to Yahoo on a monthly basis and will start appearing on their sites this month.