Posts tagged: life
AMD’s Trinity Offers 46% Better Battery Life than Ivy Bridge
Every battery test done on Trinity compared AMD’s reference test systems with retail shipping Ivy Bridge notebooks from different manufacturers.To stick to the correct principles of benchmarking, when comparing two devices inside a system, the main system should be exactly the same. Only the performance di... (read more)
‘Heckerty’ stories come to life on tablets, phones (podcast)
Larry Magid speaks with Jan Ziff, the co-creator and voice of Meet Heckerty, an iOS and Android app based on a popular British children's story. [Read more]
Engineer Looks to Create Real-Life USS Enterprise in 20 Years
The Star Trek-like Gen1 ship will be capable of reaching Mars in 90 days and the moon in three days
Great Pacific Garbage Patch affecting sea life
An increase in plastic debris floating in a zone between Hawaii and California is changing the environment of at least one marine insect, scientists report.
Intel futurist discusses data’s secret life, ‘ghost of computing’
Science fiction serves as a inspiration for the man whose job it is envisage Intel's future and, to a large degree, the future of computing itself. [Read more]
Hands-on AT&T Digital Life: A carrier secures your home
AT&T is branching out to home security you can control with your smartphone or tablet. Here's how it'll look. [Read more]
Aboriginal pictographs digitally enhanced back to life
Aboriginal elders and Parks Canada archaeologists have just completed a two-year project to photograph and interpret several ancient pictograph sites along the foothills and mountains in Alberta and B.C.
AT&T Introduces Digital Life Services for PC/Mobile-Controlled Home Security
AT&T plans to test the system out in a series of trials beginning this summer in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas, Texas
The $399 iPad 2 boasts better battery life, says report
Some variants of Apple's lower-priced iPad 2 can deliver improved battery life -- but they're not easy to find. [Read more]
Life-saving defibrillators can fail unexpectedly
Automated external defibrillators can save a life after cardiac arrest, but documents obtained by CBC News show 562 cases of the devices failing, with sometimes deadly results.
Facebook’s ‘life-saving tool’ — an organ donor feature
The wide-reaching social network now offers the ability to share whether you are an organ donor, in the hopes that this will save more lives on a daily basis. [Read more]