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China Now Has 300 Million 3G Subscribers | | All three of China's mobile telcos have just released their May figures, and the huge mobile market has hit another significant milestone: It has surpassed 300 million 3G users. China Mobile now has 129.40 million on its TD-SCDMA network despite it not supporting Apple's iPhone or iPad for full 3G functionality, China Unicom is now up to 95.9 million on its 3G data plans and China Telecom has convinced 88 million to sign up for 3G.
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Watch: Tesla Shows Off 90-Second Battery Swapping | | Tesla Motors has designed its Model S to be capable of fast battery swapping, which can ultimately prove to be a better solution than charging the car battery. According to Tesla, swapping a battery in the Model S takes about 90 seconds, and the driver never has to get out of the car.
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The Brain: Now in Ultra High-Res 3D | Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:13 PM | Discovery News |
| Today, researchers have unveiled the most detailed 3D image of the human brain ever taken. The image reveals structures as tiny as 20 microns — 50 times smaller than those created using the best MRI technology. The image, made as part of a project called the BigBrain, is part of a larger effort to create a high-resolution computer model of the human brain that can serve as a reference point for future studies.
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Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom | Thursday, June 20, 2013 6:28 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is for anyone who wants better photos from their phone, but doesn't want to add too much bulk. Handling it at a product demo in New York City today, I was surprised about how small the device is, and it did a decent job of capturing images of distant objects with a minimum of blur due to camera shake.
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Space Selfies Are Go! Interactive Orbital Camera Gets Funding | Thursday, June 20, 2013 6:05 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Instagram with video? That's old news. How about taking a picture of yourself in orbit, with the entire Earth as your backdrop? That will be possible in the next few years, now that the Arkyd Space Telescope has met the $1 million goal on Kickstarter that it announced last month.
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Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy NX Camera | Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:46 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Samsung has upgraded the Android camera experience from the original Samsung Galaxy Camera. That product was already a game-changing device, but the Galaxy NX takes it to a new level, adding the power of an interchangeable-lens to its mirrorless camera as well as improving various aspects of the camera's function.
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Can You 3D Print Your Dream Home? | Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:40 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| If you love LEGOs, you might have imagined building a real house from them. And with the surging popularity of 3D printers, such a dream seems well within reach. Nick Johnson, a spokesman for real estate blog Movoto, decided to find out what it would take to build a 3D-printed house.
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Samsung Announces New ATIV PCs, Including a Windows-Android Hybrid | Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:35 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Samsung announced three new devices in its ATIV line of Windows PCs and tablets: the ATIV Tab 3, the "world's thinnest" Windows tablet; the ATIV Book 9 Plus, a laptop based on the Series 9 PC; and the ATIV Q, a hybrid tablet device that runs both Windows and Android. SEE ALSO: Technostalgia: 20 Misty Memories of Personal Computing ATIV Q The ATIV Q is a hybrid in more than one sense of the word.
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Samsung Unveils Galaxy NX, an Android-Powered Mirrorless Camera | Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:24 PM | Pete Pachal |
| If you thought the Samsung Galaxy Camera, the company's Android-powered connected camera, was a one-off, think again. Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy NX, a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera that also runs Android. And it has LTE. Like other Samsung mirrorless cameras, the Galaxy NX has a 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor with hybrid autofocus. The rear LCD is a large 4.8-inch touchscreen, and there's an electronic viewfinder as well.
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Battle Your Friends in Google Chrome's 'Cube Slam' | Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:17 PM | Emily Price |
| A new Google Chrome game pits you against your friends in an exciting 3D Pong-style game. In Cube Slam, you shoot a ball at your friend’s computer screen, and vice versa. Get a ball past their defenses and win a point. Get three points before your opponent and win the round. SEE ALSO: 10 Best Indie Games on Android Playable entirely within the Chrome browser, the fun is in competing against a friend.
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African Entrepreneurs Deflate Google’s Internet Balloon Idea | Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:12 AM | MIT Technology Review |
| Google's latest pet project, called Loon, is meant to deliver the Internet to new parts of the world via solar-powered balloons soaring through the stratosphere. Yet some technologists in Africa say the project may be unrealistic as a competitive networking solution for their continent.
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