ZTE Hawkeye crowdsourced phone hits Kickstarter for $199

ZTE Hawkeye crowdsourced phone hits Kickstarter for $199

Last year ZTE asked the public to come up with ideas for a new smartphone. After months of soliciting ideas and whittling down the concepts, ZTE announced the winner of Project CSX: a phone with eye tracking features and an adhesive back that allows you to interact with the phone without touching it.

Now ZTE is giving the concept phone a name: Hawkeye. ANd the company is launching a Kickstarter campaign today to take pre-orders.

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ZTE Hawkeye crowdsourced phone hits Kickstarter for $199

Last year ZTE asked the public to come up with ideas for a new smartphone. After months of soliciting ideas and whittling down the concepts, ZTE announced the winner of Project CSX: a phone with eye tracking features and an adhesive back that allows you to interact with the phone without touching it.

Now ZTE is giving the concept phone a name: Hawkeye. ANd the company is launching a Kickstarter campaign today to take pre-orders.

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ZTE Blade V8 Pro is coming to America for $230

ZTE Blade V8 Pro is coming to America for $230

Chinese phone maker ZTE has been selling phones in the United States for years, but the company’s Blade line of handsets haven’t been available in this market… until now.

The company has announced that the ZTE Blade V8 Pro is is now available for pre-order in the US for $230. While the phone isn’t as powerful as the company’s Axon 7 smartphones, it has pretty decent specs for a device in that price range.

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ZTE Blade V8 Pro is coming to America for $230

Chinese phone maker ZTE has been selling phones in the United States for years, but the company’s Blade line of handsets haven’t been available in this market… until now.

The company has announced that the ZTE Blade V8 Pro is is now available for pre-order in the US for $230. While the phone isn’t as powerful as the company’s Axon 7 smartphones, it has pretty decent specs for a device in that price range.

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Zenfone 3 Zoom: Asus präsentiert neues Smartphone mit Zoomfunktion

Mit dem Zenfone 3 Zoom hat Asus ein neues Android-Smartphone mit zwei Hauptkameraobjektiven vorgestellt. Wie beim iPhone 7 Plus können Nutzer zwischen den Objektiven umherschalten – und so dank der höheren Brennweite der zweiten Linse einen Zoomeffekt erzielen. (CES 2017, Smartphone)

Mit dem Zenfone 3 Zoom hat Asus ein neues Android-Smartphone mit zwei Hauptkameraobjektiven vorgestellt. Wie beim iPhone 7 Plus können Nutzer zwischen den Objektiven umherschalten - und so dank der höheren Brennweite der zweiten Linse einen Zoomeffekt erzielen. (CES 2017, Smartphone)

Asus updates its VivoMini line of small desktop computers

Asus updates its VivoMini line of small desktop computers

Asus is giving its VivoMini line of compact desktop PCs a Kaby Lake upgrade.

New models include support for up to an Intel Core i7 processor, and thanks to improvements in Intel’s graphics technology in recent years, each model can support 4K displays. But some models also have NVIDIA graphics if you need a bit more power from your GPU.

Here’s an overview of the new models:

  • VivoMini UN65U: 5.2″ x 5.2″ x 2″ PC with dual storage bays, Kaby Lake CPU, DDR4 memory, M.2 storage support, and 802.11ac WiFi
  • VivoMini VM65: Up to a Core i7 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce 930M, USB 3.1, and 802.11ac
  • VivoMini VC66: 5×5 mini STX motherboard (with support for upgradable CPUs), support for two 2.5 inch drives and an M.2 SSD, and HDMI, DIsplkayPort, and DVDI ports

There’s no information about the price or release date for any of the new VivoMini PCs yet.

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Asus updates its VivoMini line of small desktop computers

Asus is giving its VivoMini line of compact desktop PCs a Kaby Lake upgrade.

New models include support for up to an Intel Core i7 processor, and thanks to improvements in Intel’s graphics technology in recent years, each model can support 4K displays. But some models also have NVIDIA graphics if you need a bit more power from your GPU.

Here’s an overview of the new models:

  • VivoMini UN65U: 5.2″ x 5.2″ x 2″ PC with dual storage bays, Kaby Lake CPU, DDR4 memory, M.2 storage support, and 802.11ac WiFi
  • VivoMini VM65: Up to a Core i7 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce 930M, USB 3.1, and 802.11ac
  • VivoMini VC66: 5×5 mini STX motherboard (with support for upgradable CPUs), support for two 2.5 inch drives and an M.2 SSD, and HDMI, DIsplkayPort, and DVDI ports

There’s no information about the price or release date for any of the new VivoMini PCs yet.

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4K-UHD mit HDR: Samsungs Fernseher setzen auf neue QLED-Technik

Sie sollen eine Helligkeit von bis zu 2.000 Nits erreichen und fast den kompletten DCI-P3-Farbraum abdecken: Samsungs QLED-Fernseher nutzen einzeln angesteuerte Nanokristalle statt solche mit Hintergrundbeleuchtung. Das ist wichtig für HDR. (Samsung, OLED)

Sie sollen eine Helligkeit von bis zu 2.000 Nits erreichen und fast den kompletten DCI-P3-Farbraum abdecken: Samsungs QLED-Fernseher nutzen einzeln angesteuerte Nanokristalle statt solche mit Hintergrundbeleuchtung. Das ist wichtig für HDR. (Samsung, OLED)

NZXT Cryo E40 Notebook Cooler With Adjustable Fans Position

Whenever it’s Summer, electronic gadgets operates at a higher temperature and the risk of breaking is also higher. Especially on gaming laptop where the components are tightly cramped in one slim form factor. It’s essential for gamer who care about their laptop to equipped the laptop with a quality cooling pad / notebook cooler to […]

Whenever it’s Summer, electronic gadgets operates at a higher temperature and the risk of breaking is also higher. Especially on gaming laptop where the components are tightly cramped in one slim form factor. It’s essential for gamer who care about their laptop to equipped the laptop with a quality cooling pad / notebook cooler to […]

Algorithm does real-time, city-wide ridesharing

Could cut NYC’s taxi count by 75 percent while still providing the same number of rides.

Enlarge / Don't worry, an algorithm has you covered, future NYC resident. (credit: Louise Ma / WNYC)

Anyone who's ever been stuck in stop-and-go traffic would be happy to tell you that congestion is a waste of time. But the true scale of the waste is difficult to comprehend. It's estimated that congestion costs the US one percent of its annual GDP, as people waste otherwise productive hours and fuel sitting in their vehicles. That doesn't even consider all the pollution it creates.

Despite those numbers, most people wouldn't choose to use options that cut congestion, like public transit or ridesharing. In many cases, that's because these alternatives require giving up some autonomy, as you can't necessarily go where you want whenever you want.

A paper in this week's PNAS suggests that doesn't have to be the case. Using a real-world database of fully autonomous travel—a week's worth of New York City taxi rides—the authors demonstrate an algorithm that can service travel needs in real time with minimal waits for a ride. The result would be far fewer cars on the road. Even with standard cabs, only a quarter of today's taxi fleet would be required to service all the ride requests.

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D-Link launches whole-home WiFi solutions

D-Link launches whole-home WiFi solutions

Have a big home, or lots of walls or other obstructions? Then it may be tough for a single WiFi router to cover the whole house. That’s why a number of companies have introduced whole-home WiFi systems that join two or more routers together in a mesh network recently. That’s the approach Google, Eero, Linksys, and Netgear are taking, among others.

D-Link has a slightly different solution.

The company is launching two new whole-home WiFi systems at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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D-Link launches whole-home WiFi solutions

Have a big home, or lots of walls or other obstructions? Then it may be tough for a single WiFi router to cover the whole house. That’s why a number of companies have introduced whole-home WiFi systems that join two or more routers together in a mesh network recently. That’s the approach Google, Eero, Linksys, and Netgear are taking, among others.

D-Link has a slightly different solution.

The company is launching two new whole-home WiFi systems at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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Asus Zenbook 3 Deluxe coming in May for $1699

Asus Zenbook 3 Deluxe coming in May for $1699

The AsusPro B9440 business laptop isn’t the only new 14 inch laptop from Asus with a slim design and the chassis of a 13 inch notebook. The company has also unveiled a new consumer-oriented model called the Zenbook 3 Deluxe.

The laptop measures about half an inch thick and weighs about 2.4 pounds,a and has 7.5mm (0.3 inch) bezels around the screen.

Asus is positioning this as a premium device, and it’ll have a premium price tag.

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Asus Zenbook 3 Deluxe coming in May for $1699

The AsusPro B9440 business laptop isn’t the only new 14 inch laptop from Asus with a slim design and the chassis of a 13 inch notebook. The company has also unveiled a new consumer-oriented model called the Zenbook 3 Deluxe.

The laptop measures about half an inch thick and weighs about 2.4 pounds,a and has 7.5mm (0.3 inch) bezels around the screen.

Asus is positioning this as a premium device, and it’ll have a premium price tag.

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Texas loses patience, sues FDA for barring import of lethal injection drug

Texas AG Paxton says delay due to “gross incompetence or willful obstruction.”

Enlarge / A Texas death chamber in Huntsville, Texas. (credit: Getty | Joe Raedle )

Texas officials filed a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday following a 17-month stand-off with the agency over the legality of imported drugs the state intended to use for lethal injections.

In July of 2015, Texas imported 1,000 vials of thiopental sodium, a barbiturate anesthetic that ensures rapid loss of consciousness when given in lethal cocktails. According to the court documents (PDF), the drugs came from an unnamed “foreign distributor." (However, Buzzfeed has reported they were from a questionable source in India.) At the request of the FDA, the drugs were seized by Customs officials upon their arrival at the airport. Later, the FDA said that the drugs were not approved for use in the US and were improperly labeled. Texas appealed, arguing that because the drugs would be used by law enforcement, they met an exception to federal regulations. The FDA responded by notifying the state that it was tentatively barred from importing the drug.

In this week’s lawsuit, Texas reasserts its “law enforcement exemption” claim. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was openly frustrated with the FDA’s interference. In a press release, Paxton said:

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