Daily Archives: January 12, 2016

The 7 Cs Of The Internet of Things

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The fact that we are surrounded by so many IoT-related messages is surely confusing. We have started to try and clarify the issue by talking about the Internet of Things That Matter (IoTTM) or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Regardless of which side of the IoT fence you sit on, the existence of these new ‘things’ depends upon seven crucial C-words.

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Gionee W909 surfaces in benchmark with 4GB of RAM, Helio P10 SoC

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Gionee is currently busy working on a new upper-midrange device, it would seem. The information comes from a benchmark database, where a still unannounced Gionee smartphone has been caught.

Someone put a Gionee W909 prototype through the paces of Geekbench, and this has resulted in the public outing of two of its most important specs.

The phone will sport MediaTek’s Helio P10 chipset, also known as MT6755. This 64-bit SoC features a 2 GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU and the Mali-T860 GPU. In the W909 it’s paired with a whopping 4GB of RAM.

The leaked handset is currently running Android 5.1 Lollipop, but that could (hopefully) change between now and its release date. Speaking of which, it’s unclear even when the Chinese company plans to make it official. We also don’t yet have any more details about its specs, nor any pricing information whatsoever. But now that the leaking has started, all of that may just become public soon.

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Microgears rotate when pushed by tiny motors

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Microgears rotate when pushed by tiny motors
Researchers have designed a new type of microgear that spins when micromotors become lodged into the corners of the gear’s teeth. The micromotors use the surrounding hydrogen peroxide solution as fuel to propel themselves forward, which in turn causes the microgears to spin. In the future, the tiny gears could be used as the building blocks for making autonomous micromachines.

January 12, 2016 at 11:42AM
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Google experimenting with nearby, what’s hot and recent searches in Google Search

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It seems that Google is playing with some new functionality for Google Search to kick off the new year, Reddit user tyler_shaw24 has posted some images of his Google Search after installing the January security update on his Nexus 6P and Recent Searches, What’s Hot and Nearby options now appear below his last search.

Nearby is focused on finding restaurants, gas stations, ATMs or coffee shops based on your current location.

Google-Search-Nearby

Recent Searches — wait for it — shows your recent searches, which has been the default behavior for Google Search to date.

recent-Google-Search

Finally, we have a what’s hot option that shows some current trending Google searches.

whats-hot-google-search

Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to check out the feature ourselves, as this would appear to either be a truly experimental feature that not everyone will see or it is slowly rolling out and won’t hit all devices for some time.

What do you think of these options? Would you find this more useful than simply seeing recent searches by default or are you happy with Google Search as it is now?

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Samsung Galaxy S7 rendered again, supposedly closest to the real deal

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The Galaxy S7 (in whatever flavors it materializes) is getting its fair share of leaks, customary of Samsung flagships this time of the year. Once a critical mass of those accumulates, it’s render-time, and we already saw artist Jermaine Smit go at it a month ago.

It’s an ongoing effort, though, and the designer is now back to revisit the S7, addressing some details revealed in the meantime. For one, the rear of the smartphone has gotten a curvature towards its side edges, a la Galaxy Note5, for improved handling. The front 2.5D glass also seems to have been given a larger radius to reflect recently publicized data from @OnLeaks.

That appears to be all, though judging by the 130 hours Smit says to have spent on the video, there might be even subtler differences a month of leaks has brought. But another month or so will give us the official smartphone, so we gather it will be fewer renders and more blurry live photos from now…

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