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It seems that Samsung is not going to be the only company offering an eye-tracking feature in its Galaxy smartphones, as a new Israeli start-up company called uMoove has been developing this technology for the past three years and is now saying it will offer its eye- and head-tracking technology to anyone, including Apple and other device makers,...

Automatic, a combination app and hardware unit launching this May for $69.95, is set to make your car feel "a little smarter" by displaying everything from its fuel economy to its crash response, right on your iPhone. As The Verge goes hands on with the upcoming device, it appears the device connects to a car's OBD-II Data...

It was recently discovered the latest 'silent' Apple TV update contained a smaller A5 chip, with speculation it could have been manufactured by TSMC's 28 nm process, possibly part of a production trial to create smaller chips for Apple. Now, Chipworks (via MacRumors) has confirmed the A5 within the latest Apple TV is still being...

According to a study published today in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene by Isaac I. Bogoch, MD, from the Divisions of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Toronto General Hospital, says the iPhone camera modified as a microscope can yield modest results in detecting worms based on their field study: The researchers mounted a 3-mm...

Apple has selected the component manufacturer that will provide the touch display driver and chips to support fingerprint sensors and near field communications (NFC) for the iPhone 5S. (more…)

Chinese clone specialist company GooPhone, that recently released the GooPhone i5 which runs a heavily skinned version of Android 4.1 to make it look like iOS, has now released the "i5S" even before the official iPhone 5S launch, notes CultOfMac. The cheap knockoff looks identical to the real iPhone (see video below), and you'll only notice the difference once...

Hon Hai Precision a.k.a Foxconn, Apple's largest supplier of iPhone, iPod and iPad devices, as well as TSMC, the world's leading contract chip maker, are both looking to hire 5,000 new workers each in order to meet the technology industry's fast growing demand, reports Reuters. Both companies posted the recruitment notices today at an event...

Philips Hue is a smart web-enabled LED home lighting system, that allows users to personalize and control their home lights using an iPhone / iPad app. Today, Philips has released an iOS SDK for its innovative lighting system which can be downloaded through an official developer program (via TechCrunch). Hue uses the ZigBee standard for home...

The most recent photo leak doesn't reveal details of the upcoming iPhone 5S. Instead, it shows a device that differs quite a lot from what we got to know as the iPhone: It's an early iPhone prototype with a 5-by-7-inch display and 2-inches thick from 2005. (more…)

Speaking at a panel at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) moderated by CNET Senior Reporter Seth Rosenblatt, the vice president of Mozilla, Jay Sullivan, said Firefox will not make its way onto iOS devices until Apple changes its ways towards third party browsers: Mozilla's Firefox browser will have no place on Apple devices so long...

Image credit: The Verge According to Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook may testify in the US Department of Justice lawsuit against the company over alleged ebooks price fixing. In a one-page order, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote on Friday said she will hold a telephone conference on March 13 to consider the government's request for...

A new Kickstarter project Thermodo is a tiny electrical thermometer that easily plugs into your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or any Android device's headphone jack and accurately measures the temperature around you. Designed and produced by Robocat, Thermodo consists of a passive temperature sensor built into a standard 4 pole audio jack, that allows your mobile device to read...