Gadget News

Japanese carrier KDDI has just announced a new HTC J Butterfly , a handset which resembles the HTC One in specs but with features aimed at its home market.

Looking for wicked fast internet? You may want to move to Denmark : researchers in DTU Photonics' High-Speed Optical Communications Group have set a new world record for single-transmitter data transfer.

Earlier this year, China-based smartphone company Xiaomi announced the Redmi Note .

Potato breeding programs at Michigan State University and Texas A&M have been churning out modified spuds for the better part of a decade, if not longer, but thanks to A&M's Creighton Miller, we now have a better idea of the 'designer' potato's target market.

Scientists believe that a genetic mutation, which is detectable in blood samples, makes some people more likely to kill themselves While there are a wide range of scenarios that may cause a person to take their own life, the fact is that in a given situation, some people will do so whereas others won't.

When it comes to new smartphones, you can be sure that the likes of Samsung are definitely in front with its fair share of new devices that roll off a seemingly endless production line.

Who doesn't remember the Veg-O-Matic ? It sliced. It diced. It made our fingers bleed.

While competitors are busy cloning Snapchat in an attempt to replicate its success, Evan Spiegel and co. have continued to forge their own path.

Revenge porn is nasty business and it seems that in several parts of the US , it has actually been banned .

According to a rumor last week, we heard that Microsoft could be thinking about renaming Cortana for the China market .

Yet lately a growing number of canning and preserving cookbooks have flooded my desk.

With robots set to play a more prominent role in society in the coming years, it makes sense to find fun ways to educate youngsters on the technology.

Mark Zuckerberg's experiment in social network retail has finally come to an end: on August 12th, Facebook Gifts will close forever.

Cameras are not designed to be gender-specific, but apparently Sony decided that it would be a good idea to create a camera designed for women in mind.

Thanks to our smartphones these days being more powerful than ever, packed with different sensors and apps that can take advantage of the hardware, it is not surprising to find that apart from playing games and taking photos, our phones could be used for more "serious" purposes.

One of the things you can't find on the Apple TV is an official store for apps, but this hasn't kept the tiny box from becoming a solid device for entertainment purposes.

Heart rate monitors are no longer the exclusive domain of fitness gadgets. The last 12 months have seen sensors make their way into smartphones and wearables, replacing for many of us the need for a standalone pulse monitor.

The great city of London, which has been promised to deliver 5G connectivity to the masses before the year 2020 clocks out and we usher in 2021, has yet another story that touches on the technological department.

Pinhole cameras might already be the domain of photography mavens and earnest summer vacation school projects, but does it look like this? The Viddy is a charming 35mm and medium format pinhole camera that has a glue-free construction and even promises to take less than half an hour to make.

Tablets are everywhere these days -- so much so that bolting one to a shopping trolley isn't even a novel idea.