Technology

  Relaxnews Like it or not, it will be increasingly difficult for users of the Galaxy Note 7 to use their smartphones. In the wake of limits imposed on the phablet’s recharging capacity, the South Korean manufacturer has now issued a further software update, for the moment confined to the United States and Malaysia, that will definitively prevent the Galaxy ...

  RIDDLE / AP John Redfield watches with pride as his son moves a laser-guided precision saw the size of a semi-truck wheel into place over a massive panel of wood. Redfield’s fingers are scarred from a lifetime of cutting wood and now, after decades of decline in the logging business, he has new hope that his son, too, can ...

  Kaiserslautern / DPA When Professor Sabine Hoffmann invites you to sit down, there’s a surprise in store: the individualized office chairs she’s helping to develop can ventilate you from below. At the push of a button, their little built-in fans can blow air on the back or bottom. Men in particular like this feature, she says, as it helps ...

  Relaxnews Twitter began streaming 360-degree video, allowing users to interact and get behind the scenes of live broadcasts. “Starting today, you can check out live, interactive 360 videos from interesting broadcasters and explore what’s happening with them,” Twitter’s Alessandro Sabatelli said in a blog post. “You’ll be able to get an inside look with well-known personalities and go behind ...

  Relaxnews 2017 will be marked by Nokia’s grand return to the smartphone market. According to DigiTimes, Finnish company HMD Global, which is now in charge of mobile devices for the brand, is preparing to launch half a dozen models. In December 2016, HMD launched a basic phone for emerging markets, the Nokia 150, which has all the trappings of ...

  Bloomberg Here are the requirements that every good pair of travel headphones needs to meet: They must be small enough to fit in a carry-on, they must drown out ambient airplane noise (and crying babies), the batteries must last long enough for a trans-ocean flight, and they must have killer sound. Achieving all that is easier said than done. ...

    Emirates Business To advance the essential functions of its home appliances, LG Electr- onics (LG) is set to deliver an unparalleled level of performance and convenience into the home with Deep Learning technology to be unveiled at CES® 2017. LG Deep Learning allows home appliances to better understand its users, making lives simpler and more enjoyable. Using smart ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s quest to adopt advanced displays for its next-generation iPhone hinges on a single supplier in the Japanese countryside. Canon Tokki Corp., surrounded by rice fields in the city of Mitsuke in Niigata prefecture, has a near monopoly on the machines capable of making screens with organic light-emitting diodes, which enable sharp, vibrant displays that use less ...

  Relaxnews With only a few days to go before the international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (January 5-8, 2017), South Korean manufacturer LG has caused a stir with a surprising bluetooth speaker that ‘hovers’ in midair. No, it’s not just a vision statement but an actual object. LG plans to mesmerize visitors to the next CES with ...

  Relaxnews E-commerce giant Amazon has revealed the best-selling products across Amazon this year, boasting record-setting sales of its Echo gadget line. According to the company, customers “gifted a record-setting number of devices from the Amazon Echo family, with sales up over 9x compared to last year’s holiday season and millions of Alexa devices sold worldwide this year”. The Echo ...