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Finally, A Lithium Battery That Warns You Before It Bursts Into Flames
Lithium-ion batteries are wonderful things, but they’re unfortunately given to short circuiting and bursting into flames every now and then. It’s extraordinarily rare, but it happens. A Stanford research team thinks it has solved this little big problem by building an early warning system into an existing battery. They say it could save lives, which…
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Microsoft Made A Better Stylus That Knows How You’re Holding It
Intelligent processing and more sensitive capacitive displays have allowed our fingers to replace the stylus that was once required for using a touchscreen — but not completely. Drawing and other artistic apps still benefit from the precision of a stylus, and Microsoft Research has come up with a way to make a digital pen far…
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Dimming Your Phone’s Screen Under Your Thumb Could Prolong Battery Life
It’s a tough pill to swallow, but smartphones aren’t getting any smaller. And since those larger displays are unfortunately putting more of a strain on battery life, Microsoft Research is proposing a clever trick that promises to extend your phone’s usable hours by detecting and dimming parts of the display already obscured by the user’s…
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Study Shows Most Serious Cyberattacks Are Coming From Inside The US
When we think about where hackers come from, China is probably the first country that comes to mind — for good reason too. Russia’s maybe next in line. But a controlled experiment by cyber security researchers shows that the vast majority of attacks actually come from a very familiar place: the United States.