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With Oculus VR headsets and Portal video conferencing smart displays, Facebook is increasingly becoming a hardware maker. One Facebook product reportedly in the pipeline is a smartwatch that’s trying to compete with Google-owned Fitbit and the Apple Watch. The Information broke the news today and detailed how the Facebook smartwatch…

Synopsis In the last six years, if one looks at the discount that some of the DVR shares are enjoying, there has seen a sharp surge to as high as 60 per cent plus from the lows of 20 per cent plus without any rationale.iStockThe concept of DVR (differential voting…

It doesn't last long. v Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors If you’ve still got money burning a hole in your pocket after the Steam Winter Sale, good news! Valve's assault on your wallet returns with the Steam Lunar…

MELBOURNE: World number one Ash Barty suffered a meltdown on the brink of victory but regathered herself to fend off compatriot Daria Gavrilova 6-1 7-6(7) and reach the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday. Barty, who came onto centre court with her left thigh heavily strapped, served for…

11:15 - Mmoh 1-6 NadalMmoh nets a return and after another good service game, Nadal wraps up the first set in just 27 minutes. Australian Open Norrie and Safiullin have match delayed due to rain 34 MINUTES AGO 10:25 - Gauff 4-6, 3-6 SvitolinaQuick feet from Svitolina again, looming ominously…

He has been the most high-profile face among the Conservative Party's front bench critics — needling Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her predecessor, Bill Morneau, about the state of the economy and the country's balance sheet while blasting the Liberal government on ethical foibles like the WE Charity scandal. Conservative Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre…

Magnetic interactions between the newfound planet, designated Gliese 1151b, and its host star are the likely source of low-frequency radio emission recently detected from this system. This is an artistic impression of a red dwarf star’s magnetic interaction with its exoplanet. Image credit: Danielle Futselaar, Artsource.nl. “Planets in close-in orbits…

John Ternus is the new senior VP of hardware engineering. Apple Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors Editor's note update 2/8/21: Bloomberg reports that Dan Riccio has "ultimate oversight" over Apple's upcoming virtual and augmented reality device, while Apple…

German scientists have developed a molecular surveillance tool called CovRadar for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that can help epidemiologists and virologists to understand the pathogen better. The findings, published in the preprint server bioRxiv, noted that the tool has an analysis pipeline and a web application. According to the researchers,…

IMAGE: Hebrew University Professor Nir Friedman view more  Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem In diagnostic medicine, biopsies, where a sample of tissue is extracted for analysis, is a common tool for the detection of many conditions. But this approach has several drawbacks - it can be painful, doesn't always extract the…