When it comes to using the Internet or social media to cope with medical conditions, Pinterest isn't the first platform that comes to mind. But new research ...
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Nubia’s wearable smartphone – radical or ridiculous?
If you weren't already emotionally attached to your smartphone, now you can take digital shackles to a whole new level with Nubia's wearable phone. The ...
Sprint announces first solid plans to unveil 5G infrastructure at MWC19
It feels like we're never going to stop hearing about 5G, whether it's some vague press release about its imminent release or false promises that it's already ...
Russia to briefly “turn off” country’s Internet access. But why?
If I asked you to picture the Internet for a moment - the actual, physical Internet - what would you imagine? Many of us have no idea how this thing we use ...
British engineers impale space debris with giant harpoon
Most of us assume that what goes up into space must come down. But in reality, there's quite a lot of detritus orbiting the Earth. This includes natural debris, ...
TechEngage will be covering MWC19
TechEngage will be sending a team of reporters to the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, which runs from February 25th to February 28th. The event, ...
What did the pope say to the president of Microsoft?
No, it's not a joke. Microsoft President Brad Smith met with Pope Francis last Wednesday at the Vatican to discuss artificial intelligence. They were joined by ...
LipPass verifies your identity based on your mouth movements
A new platform called LipPass is one of many new behavioral verification techniques for smartphones. Up until recently, identity verification involved simple ...
Paris sues Airbnb over illegal listings
Airbnb is the platform on which people around the world can rent out their property to traveling strangers. As it grew more popular, people rented out all sorts ...
Handwriting goes high-tech with Rocketbook’s Everlast reusable notebook
My love of writing goes well beyond composing stories and writing tech news – I actually love the action of writing words and literally putting pen to ...
MIT scientists create new deep learning model that aims to identify fake news
Ever wonder how those fake news-detecting algorithms actually work? What, exactly, do they look for and how do they determine the context of a news story in ...
Superbug genes found in the (formerly) last pristine place on Earth
Well, so much for the idea of a place on Earth untouched by bad human decisions. Antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs), the result of overzealous prescription of ...
WeDo Technologies shows us why we should care about telecom fraud
TechEngage was a guest at WeDo Technologies' WeMeet Asia event last week, where we had the opportunity to learn about the challenges posed by 5G technology, the ...
Zuckerberg’s plan to combine messaging apps is a spectacularly bad idea
Ok, so here's what we know: 4 Facebook employees, described only as "people involved in the effort, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter ...
Totally non-creepy robot can wrap itself around things
Try to put Little Shop of Horrors out of your mind for a minute. Italian researchers have developed a soft robot that can curl, climb, and wrap itself around ...
