Technology

    Even die-hard iPhone fans have to admit that the AMOLED displays on other phones, particularly those from Samsung, look better than the LCD screens on iPhones. But if the rumors are true, iPhone fans may no longer need to make that admission, as Apple is reportedly looking to use a form of OLED display on the next iPhone. Just prepare your wallet, because OLED isn't cheap. But that's just one of the rumors we're hearing. Check out all the latest scuttlebutt surrounding Apple's next iPhone. There WILL be an S model of the iPhone 7. A Barclay's report obtained by MacRumors said Apple would skip the S model this year, which has historically followed each new phone version. The report claimed Apple would instead jump directly from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone 8 — possibly called...

    In a bid to give users more options as to how and where they can watch videos, social media giant Facebook on Thursday announced a new app for TV. The app will be rolled out soon to app stores for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung Smart TV, with more platforms to come, said Facebook in a blog post. With the app, you can watch videos shared by friends or Pages you follow, top live videos from around the world, and recommended videos based on your interests. ‘Users can also catch up on videos saved to watch later, as well as revisit watched videos. We look forward to seeing how people use the app to enjoy Facebook videos in a new way,’ said Facebook. The company also announced new updates wherein sound fades in and out as you scroll through videos in News Feed, bringing t...

    The asteroid, labelled 2015 BN509 by NASA, flew past the Earth last week at close to 44,000mph. At its closest point, it was 14 times the distance between the Earth and the moon. The asteroid measures roughly 200m (660ft) wide and 400m (1,310ft) long. But the American space agency has labelled it potentially hazardous and warned that it could one day strike the Earth. It was captured on film by the Arecibo Observatory, a giant radio telescope, during its flyby of the Earth. The skyscraper-sized chunk of rock can be clearly seen tumbling through the blackness of space. Dr Edgard Rivera-Valentín, a planetary scientist with the Universities Space Research Association who studies data from The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, told Business Insider: The peanut shape comes fr...

    When something's going wrong with your car, chances are it will try to tell you. Any strange vibrations, intermittent squeaks, occasional knocks, or other unusual symptoms should be inspected right away. You might not feel any problems but the longer you wait, the more trouble you could be in if a part suddenly fails and you're left stranded on the side of the road. These little mistakes we do every day are slowing killing our cars. Ignoring the Parking Brake Even if you're parked on a level surface, there's really no reason not to use the parking brake. Not engaging the parking brake puts the entire weight of your vehicle on a little piece of metal in the transmission called the parking pawl. It's only about as big as your finger, so it can wear out or break eventually fr...

    Arrests after gang rape streamed on Facebook Police have arrested three men in Sweden suspected of a gang rape that was livestreamed on Facebook. Officers raided an apartment and took the suspects, aged 18, 20 and 24, into custody while they were still with the victim, aged 30. The arrests happened in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, on Sunday, after members of an online group raised the alarm. The closed Facebook group the alleged attack was streamed through has 60,000 members. One of the first to call the authorities was Josefine Lundgren, 21. She told Sweden's Expressen newspaper that one of the suspects "tore the clothes off" his victim before raping her. The attacker also had apparently filmed everything and took pictures that he put on (messaging site) Snapchat, she said...

    Zuckerberg, whose Facebook profile once identified him as an atheist, revealed his change of heart on his social media network after he wished everyone on Dec. 25 a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Priscilla, Max, Beast and me, referring to his wife, daughter and dog. When a commenter asked him, Aren’t you an atheist? he responded: No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important. He didn’t provide details about his faith. The title of his holiday greeting on Facebook was celebrating Christmas. He and wife Priscilla Chan met with Pope Francis at the Vatican last summer and discussed how to bring communication technology to the world’s poor. Zuckerberg said at the time that he was impress...

    Proposal part of Department for Transport consultation on improving drone safety over concerns about dangerous flying and use of the technology to deliver drugs and weapons into prisons Mandatory registration for new drones could be introduced in a bid to crack down on reckless users. The proposal is part of a Department for Transport (DfT) consultation on improving drone safety. It is hoped the scheme could help authorities identify the owners of drones that are flown illegally. The consultation will also consider whether there is a need for a new criminal offence for misuse of drones. Professional services firm PwC published a report in May that estimated that the global market for drone use will be worth $127 billion (£103 billion) in the coming years. Aviation minister...

    The biggest problem, basically, is there’s not a hell of a lot we can do about it at the moment, said Dr Joseph Nuth, a researcher with Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Speaking at the annual meeting of American Geophysical Union, Nuth noted that large and potentially dangerous asteroids and comets are extremely rare, compared to the small objects that occasionally explode in Earth’s sky or strike its surface. But on the other hand they are the extinction-level events, things like dinosaur killers, they’re 50 to 60 million years apart, essentially. You could say, of course, we’re due, but it’s a random course at that point. Comets follow distant paths from Earth but sometimes get knocked into the neighbourhood. Nuth said that the Earth had a close encounter in 1996, whe...

    The Investigatory Powers Bill, or as it has been more aptly named, the Snooper’s Charter, is now as good as passed. It just needs Royal Assent before it becomes law. So before you Google anything, here's the full list of agencies that can now ask for any UK citizen's browsing history, as outlined in Schedule 4 of the bill, and collected by Chris Yiu: • Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996 • Metropolitan police force • City of London police force • Police Service of Scotland • Police Service of Northern Ireland • British Transport Police • Ministry of Defence Police • Royal Navy Police • Royal Military Police • Royal Air Force Police • Security Service • Secret Intelligence Service • GCHQ • Ministry of Defence • Department of Health • Home Office ...

    Samsung has acknowledged reports of 92 devices overheating and recently the replacement devices started catching fire Samsung Galaxy Note7 is dead. Yes, you read that right- Samsung has announced that it is permanently ending the production of Galaxy Note7 around the world. “Taking our customer’s safety as our highest priority, we have decided to halt sales and production of the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung said in a statement. The Korean smartphone giant has pulled the plug on one of its most important device after spending months trying to fix the battery issue. Samsung Galaxy Note7, which was launched on August 2 in New York, has been a controversy kid in the tech industry for the past few months. In a statement filed with South Korea’s stock exchange, Samsung has confirmed i...