RedSn0w has been one of the most favorite jailbreaking tools for the iOS community. The best thing about it is that it has one of the most able iOS hacking team, iPhone-Dev Team, working on it, which makes sure that updates to the tool ship out regularly. Now, the team has released version 0.9.10b7 which comes with a Corona A5 jailbreak and a number of other tools. Direct download links are provided below, both for Mac as well as Windows users.
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Wireless charging has been gaining traction in the tech world but it hasn’t found mass following yet. One of the reasons has been a lack of standards, a problem which Wireless Power Consortium has been trying to solve. Now, WPC has updated the Qi wireless charging standard. According to the update, now devices can be wirelessly recharged if they are up to 40mm away from the magnetic platform.
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A lot of us believe that Apple’s products are nearly, and mostly, flawless. Particularly if it is a MacBook Pro which is one of the priciest machines commonly used, it has to be flawless. That is precisely what Seattle Rex thought, though that turned out to be wrong. And Rex, naturally, was not happy.
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Facebook has been ever expanding with a huge user base. Currently with more than 850 million users, the social network naturally requires more data centers to cater to the huge traffic activity. Facebook has been working on a new data center in North Carolina and now, it has been reported that data center is finally functional.
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In one article, I wrote, ‘ Toilet Holds First Position For Water Damaged Mobile Phones In UK.’ If your mobile phone accidentally fall into water, there are several ways you can try to retain the phone alive: pat it down with a towel, remove the battery and put it in a cup of dry rice and wait until the water dries. However, Daikin Industries which is a Japan based chemical company is looking to replace those conventional methods with a water-resistant coating applied to phones before they have a chance to get wet. In short, water resistant coating stops your phone from drowning.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Tech News
On April 21, 2012(1 month, 0 days ago.)
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One of the major problems for electric vehicles today is that they come with limited range. Due to this, such vehicles couldn’t have been employed on a mass scale. However, IBM is working on a lithium air battery which may solve these problems by enabling a car to go 500 miles!
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We have been hearing about Samsung’s cloud storage service, which will be its answer to Apple’s iCloud. So far, news had it that the cloud service will be launched sometime in August this year. However, the latest reports suggest that the service may be launched on May 3rd, about the same time when Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III is expected to be launched.
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Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, have discovered a way to make paper, and other fibers, waterproof, magnetic, flourescent, or even antibacterial. Through the use of nanotechnology a standard paper can be made waterproof and magnetic. It involves combining the fiber molecules with a nanoparticle solution, creating a polymer matrix.
Reporter:Smith
Under: Tech News
On April 21, 2012(1 month, 0 days ago.)
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The legal tussle between Google and Oracle has taken a strange twist as both seem equally responsible in the whole fiasco. Google didn’t really buy the license for using Java code whereas Oracle has been meddling with the Android platform and apparently, decided to get money out of Google a little too late. Now, Google’s chief Java Architect, Joshua Bloch has admitted that he may have copied some of the code used in Android.
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AT&T has long been working on a voice recognition engine of its own. The two-decades long research has culminated in the shape of its Watson speech and language engine. The engine quite effectively converts spoken words into text. Now, the carrier has unveiled of plans of making the APIs of Watson available to the developers by June this year.
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Apple Store Genius Bar is known to have your device replaced shall your face any problem with your iDevice. However, users often have to take care of a lot of things before they attempt to do so. They have to create a backup, sometimes with Apple’s iCloud, and only then venture upon such a feat. Now, however, Apple is adding iOS Sync data hub, which will be a wireless service, to enable doing so right at the Genius Bar.
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From computers to smartphones and tablets, technology has been trying to grow more intimate with us humans. It seems that tech-glasses is an inevitable next step as more and more glasses-centric technologies are being devised. Now, Sony and Regal Entertainment in US are collaborating to introduce Access Glasses which will furnish closed captions for the users, right on their glasses.
Imagine that you are projecting an image through a projector while giving a presentation. Now, having a number of additional accessories to control the presentation to perform zoom and other features can be quite annoying. However, with AT&T’s all-new ShadowPuppets, you can do all this merely with the help of your shadow gestures.
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Every year, the world’s eyes are set to TIME Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in the world. The list primarily includes such people who have somehow been a huge influence, globally or at least have left a significant impact on a significant size of people. This year, not surprisingly, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook made it to the list.
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BranchOut has been there on Facebook as a Facebook app for quite some time. Whereas it has been lying low till now, it seems that it has plans of taking things to the next level now. According to the CEO of BranchOut, it can beat LinkedIn eventually because it has an exposure to a far greater audience than LinkedIn does.
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