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    “Curved Display, No Physical Buttons, True Wireless Charging”                One way to make the iPhone’s screen larger without increasing the size of the device itself is wrap it around all four edges. An artist‘s video imagines how such an iOS handset would look, with no physical buttons and an under-screen camera. This was dreamed up by Kevin Noki for   ConceptsiPhone . The description says “Forget iPhone 11 and take a look on this future 2020 year iPhone XII device with No Buttons, Wireless Charge and Hidden Camera!” Proposed iPhone XII features The designer calls the curved screen the Space Display, and proposes that icons along the edge function a bit like widgets, sliding open when tapped to reveal notifications or controls. The volume and side buttons would, of course, become virtual. Noki would like to see the iPhone’s front-facing camera under the screen, something still in development. ...

Abstraction Smart city has become a conception that is a must for future development where living standard will be improved in another level. There are so many initiatives aimed at analyzing the conception process, deployment methods or outcomes of Smart City are being developed in multiple fields. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of this term is extremely necessary not only for planner, manager and director of projects, but also for people who has lived in these cities. In the report, it is important to go through benefits of Smart city which focus on some remarkable areas such as traffic management, home automation, health and security and the challenges that are existing in building process in developed and developing countries. After that, it is discussed about how 5G effect on Smart City by analyzing, illustrating and giving some examples, which help to have a clear acknowledgement about next wireless generation technology impacts in future development.  ...

Future technology may allow us to Breathe Underwater Like Fish. Alan Izhar-Bodner has invented an apparatus that extracts the air out of water for breathing. Seawater contains 1.5 to 2.5% air, 34% of which is oxygen. Air can be dissolved in water by increasing pressure and released when that pressure is decreased. This is known as "Henry's Law". The system uses the "Henry Law" which states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid is proportional to the pressure on the liquid. Raise the pressure - more gas can be dissolved in the liquid. Decrease the pressure - gas dissolved in the liquid releases the gas. This is exactly what happens when you open a can of soda; carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid and is under pressure in the can. Open the can, releasing the pressure, and the gas fizzes out. By using a centrifuge, Bodner's invention separates air from water and transfers it to a cont...

5G launch: The next-generation wireless network technology 5G is slated to be rolled out at the end of 2019. But ahead of its worldwide roll-out, researchers have revealed the sheer vulnerability in the network that allows for spying of data over airwaves. According to news agency ANI, a research paper from the Technical University of Berlin, ETH Zurich and SINTEF Digital Norway details the privacy threat with the 5G network. The vulnerability affects Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) that ensures your phone securely communicates with cellular networks. It allows hackers or data thieves to steal information from 5G airwaves such as the number of calls made, text messages sent, and so on. Although the researchers tested the threat on an existing 4G network, the attacks can apply to 5G networks once they are available. The threat is in contradiction to the protection 5G was supposed to provide against International Mobile ...

Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country’s largest maker of industrial robots. The factory, located near ABB’s China robotics campus, is due to be operating by the end of 2020 and will produce robots for China as well as for export elsewhere in Asia. China is ABB’s No. 2 market after the United States. “Shanghai has become a vital centre for advanced technology leadership – for ABB and the world,” ABB Chief Executive Ulrich Spiesshofer said in a statement announcing the project.  With the expansion, ABB is banking on Chinese robots sales defying concerns over trade tensions with the United States that some fear could dent demand for electronics, auto parts and other items that require automated manufacturing and robots.  China is expanding its robot workforce, as wages for human workers there rise and the country ...

US-based chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies on Tuesday  unveiled   here the Snapdragon 675 system-on-chip (SoC) to boost gaming and camera experience in mobile devices. The latest addition to the mid-range Snapdragon 600 series, released at the Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit, supports a triple camera configuration in the front or back. It supports features such as telephoto, wide angle, and super-wide image capture, as well as enhanced portrait mode (Bokeh), “3D face unlock” and high-quality selfies, the company said. Snapdragon 675 provides new architectures and performance improvements over the previous generation Snapdragon 670 in Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities as well. With a multi-core AI Engine, Snapdragon 675 is engineered to deliver up to 50% overall improvements in AI applications, Qualcomm said. “Packed with advanced gaming abilities, remarkable camera performance and a multi-core AI Engine, Snapdragon 675-based smartphones will bring new experiences to co...

Xiaomi will launch the third-generation of its bezel-less smartphone on October 25. Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 will be officially launched at an event in Beijing, China. Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 like its predecessors will feature an edge-to-edge display with almost no bezels around it. Donovan Sung, global spokesperson for Xiaomi, has been sharing updates on the upcoming Mi MIX 3. The new Mi MIX 3 will feature a sliding form factor for the selfie camera. Oppo Find X and Vivo Nex introduced a new trend with their pop-out selfie cameras. Xiaomi’s previous Mi MIX phones house the selfie camera on the bottom bezel of the phone. A teaser video of the Mi MIX 3 shows the smartphone’s selfie camera which one can slide up to open. The smartphone is expected to sport a 24-megapixel front camera.  Sung has also revealed that the Mi MIX 3 will pack a massive 10GB RAM. The highest RAM capacity on a smartphone is currently 8GB. Mi MIX 3 would be the first phone with 10GB RAM. Oppo is also pl...

Apple Inc. said it will hold a product announcement October 30 in Brooklyn, New York, likely to unveil new iPads and Mac computers. The invitation to media reads, “There’s more in the making,” without specifying what would be introduced. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is planning the biggest revamp to the iPad Pro since it first went on sale in 2015, as well as a lower-cost MacBook laptop and a new Mac mini desktop, Bloomberg News reported earlier this year. On its  website , Apple said the event will be live streamed. This will mark the first Apple product introduction to take place in New York since the company unveiled its digital textbooks service in 2012. It is, however, the second Apple product launch outside of California this year. In March, the company announced new education software and an update to the entry-level iPad at a Chicago-area high school. The October launch, the month in which Apple has previously debuted new Macs and iPa...

CONSPIRACY THEORIES Karl Kruszelnicki says everything can be explained by human error, bad weather, and heavy air and sea traffic – not alien abduction or energy beams from the lost city of Atlantis There has been decades of speculation about 'mysterious' disappearances in the triangle of ocean between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico ( Getty ) Defying 70 years of fevered speculation, a sceptical scientist has dared to declare that the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been ‘solved’ – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place. Karl Kruszelnicki has insisted the reason why so many ships and planes vanish without trace in the area between Bermuda,  Florida,  Puerto Rico is nothing to do with aliens or fire-crystals from the lost city of Atlantis.  Instead, the Australian scientist ‘revealed’, the high number of disappearances is explained by nothing more supernatural than plain old human e...