Goodbye to more tactile keys, and hello to planes of cool and smooth glass. Today, BlackBerry confirmed that it will stop making the Classic, one of the company’s last smartphone models based around a physical keyboard for inputting text, as the company prepares for a new series of phone designs based on Android and BlackBerry 10 platforms, and more attempts to compete in an… Read More
Robert Heath claimed to have cured homosexuality by implanting electrodes into the pleasure centre of the brain. Robert Colvile reports on one of the forgotten stories of neuroscience for Mosaic.
For the first hour, they just talked. He was nervous; he’d never done this before. She was understanding, reassuring: let’s just lie down on the bed together, she said, and see what happens. Soon, events took their course: they were enjoying themselves so much they could almost forget about the wires leading out of his skull.
The year was 1970, and the man was a 24-year-old psychiatric patient. The woman, 21, was a prostitute from the French Quarter of New Orleans, hired by special permission of the attorney general of Louisiana. And they had just become part of one of the strangest experiments in scientific history: an attempt to use pleasure conditioning to turn a gay man straight.
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As expected, Samsung has started rolling out the Marshmallow update to its Galaxy A8 smartphone. The update brings Android version 6.0.1 and is currently rolling out to units in India.
Weighing in at around 1,112MB, the update includes all the usual Marshmallow goodies such as Doze, Google Now on Tap, and redesigned app permissions, as well as some other changes including those related to fingerprints.
As is usually the case with OTA roll outs, it might take some time before the update notification pops up on your device. Meanwhile, if you feel impatient, you can manually check…
The newly launched Charity IT Association wants to help charities improve their use of technology – and they’re looking for support from IT expert volunteers – Source
South Korea launches its first commercial, low-cost Internet of Things network which helps devices talk to each other, making the country even more connected. – Source
Coding class? Zumba? No longer just repositories for books, New York’s public libraries have reinvented themselves as one-stop community centers that aim to offer something for everyone. – Source
Last week, a fairly major update to Google Fit came with a fresh coat of paint for the interface and a few important feature enhancements. It now supports multiple goals with more options, weight tracking, new metrics, and quite a bit more. It wasn’t a complete overhaul, but it certainly looks and feels like a whole new app. But that’s not the whole story, there’s actually quite a bit more in this update that hasn’t emerged yet.
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Google Fit v1.57 will add group challenges, nutrition data, local rankings, target weight, and more [APK Teardown] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
For some of us, hotdogs, patriotic songs, and fireworks are enough. We here at TechCrunch expect more of our readers. Why be satisfied with fireworks when you could literally launch a Kickstarter into the sky. If you’re like me, you were likely quite disappointed to find out that Hamilton wasn’t about an epic duel, I mean “syndicate,” between Backstage… Read More
The basketball star’s announcement that he’s leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors sends Twitter into overdrive. – Source
Sharing your location with your apps and operating system has its advantages. But if you’d rather not, you can disable the function. – Source
