Lithium-ion batteries were first commercialised in 1991 and while the battery use has increased by leaps and bounds over the years, performance improvement is still limited with difficulties to increase battery capacity that still takes over an hour to fully charge. Enter the graphene ball. Developed at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), researchers have […]
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Samsung to showcase stretchable display tech and more
The Society for Information Display or SID 2017 kicks off from tomorrow and Samsung has confirmed to show some exciting display tech. The interesting reveal at the show will be the stretchable AMOLED display. The prototype screen measures 9.1-inches and unlike the current generation of flexible OLEDs that can bend, fold or roll on one […]
Acquisition of Viv will help Samsung to build Artificial Intelligence ecosystem
Samsung has announced its acquisition of Viv Labs that offers an open artificial intelligence (AI) platform to companies to build “conversational assistants and integrate a natural language-based interface into renowned applications and services”. Samsung has not revealed the details of the transaction but says they’re committed to virtual personal assistants and the acquisition will help […]
Samsung Gear S3 to be unveiled at IFA 2016
Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch will be officially unveiled during the press conference at IFA 2016 on 31st August 2016. With regards to the update, nothing concrete has been confirmed. However, we expect that the Gear S3 will feature the rotating bezel like the Gear S2. Samsung will probably also up the feature list by improving […]
Samsung Pay vulnerability allows paying without the device
Samsung has been marketing how easy and safe it is to pay through its Samsung Pay service and while the first part is true, the safety claim has run into an issue. A security researcher has published a way wherein a hacker can intercept the ‘tokens’ that Samsung Pay generates to make payments without needing […]