An Apple patent filed in 2015 shows that the Cupertino-based company has plans for the (already pretty cool) Apple Pencil that far exceed its current iPad Pro limitations. The patent uncovered by Patently Apple makes for a pretty dry read, but includes some exciting information, including multiple references to devices other than the iPad, including such explicit references as: “Exemplary embo...

This won’t be a shock to anyone who works in publishing, but Google is no longer the referral king.While the search giant is still very important to publishers, Facebook now edges it out in when it comes pointing web users to news articles and other kinds of content, as this chart from Statista, based on recent research from analytics firm Parse.ly, shows. Interestingly, Google is still the pr...

Chinese company DJI has played a bigger part than anyone in bringing drones to the masses, and it's looking to continue that role with a new easy-to-use aircraft that weighs less than a soda can and launches from the palm of your hand.The Spark will be available in white, blue green, red and yellow The Spark's flight time is listed as 16 minutes, and DJI claims it will transmit 720p video from...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner isn't completely foolproof, according to German hackers who say they found a way to bypass the phone's lockscreen.That's a problem for Samsung, which actually claims on its website that the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus iris scanner is 'Security that's foolproof'. Oops.However, this is more of an overpromise than an issue for most users. Many biometric unlock m...

Lotus is being sold to Chinese car giant Geely, Associated Press reports this morning. On the face of it this is good news for Norfolk. Volvo has been owned by Geely this past seven-plus years, and has flourished and remained master of its own destiny.This is part of a much larger deal. Geely is also buying 49.9 percent of Lotus’s owner, Proton, which like Lotus was wholly owned by Malaysian c...

There’s nothing more tedious than driving in endless circles around a seemingly full airport carpark, exchanging eye contact with every person in the vicinity of their vehicle only to be answered with a guilty shake of the head to confirm that they just arrived, and won’t be leaving any time soon. In response, french startup stanly robotics are developing france’s first robot valet, who goes...

A person who has knee or any lower limb joint issues should avoid activities like running where impacts that would reverberate to those area of concern. That means jogging for the purpose of keeping fit is out of question, but not if Aqua Treadmill by Osaka City based Water Walker & Spa can help. By the virtue of the product name, you should already have some idea what it is. Aqua Treadmill...

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Netherlands-based Minibrew has raised $2.8 million in seed funding after completing a successful $350,000 crowdfunding campaign to bring some smarts to the home-brew process.The Minibrew is a little keg with a big brain. When we first met the company in 2015 they offered a whiff of high-tech to the brewing process, adding a monitored brew vessel and mobile app to the age-old technique of sloppi...