Asus struck gold with the ZenFone 2, which despite its naming disaster and veritable model chaos managed to deliver big in the value department with powerful hardware and an affordable price point. Naturally, fans have been waiting anxiously for the Taiwanese giant’s next step since and by all accounts, it should come in the shape of the ZenFone 3. We have already heard quite a bit about the handset, including some TENAA listings, talk of afingerprint reader and a suggested May or June release frame. However, the Zenfone 3 is still quite illusive and we’re not even sure whether it…
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Emerging market equities are outperforming stocks in developed economies this year, but the trend could be short lived, Geoff Dennis, head of global emerging market equity strategy at UBS, warned on Wednesday. Since late January, emerging market stocks have rallied about 15 percent as the dollar has weakened and commodity prices have rebounded, Dennis noted. But UBS is not expecting the greenback to remain persistently weak, and does not think emerging market currencies have bottomed. “This is just a temporary trend, so we’re not really chasing this rally aggressively in emerging markets,” Dennis told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.””In fact we’ve had…
Apple analyst from KGI Ming-Chi Kuo, who has definitely proven a trustworthy source of information and predictions, forecasts year-on-year iPhone shipments will continue to fall in 2016. The total iPhone shipments for the year will likely fall below 200 million units ending up missing market expectations. Furthermore, Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that Apple won’t be able to recover from its peak iPhone times and as a result the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will see lower sales than its predecessors. The decline in sales for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus is a result of the rise of replacement…
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that when you hit pay dirt, you might do so again if you keep digging in the same area. That’s the tack Dell takes with its redesigned XPS 15 laptop: It’s easily summed up as a bigger, more powerful version of the super-popular XPS 13. Bigger isn’t always better, of course, but in the case of the XPS 15, it worked out pretty well. Its body has the same aluminum top and bottom. The familiar carbon-fiber keyboard deck is there, too. Also like the XPS 13, this XPS15 features an ultra-thin “InfinityEdge” bezel…
Chris Stein | Getty Images Doctor, stethoscope and money Sometimes you can to spend a little to save a lot. Even if you’re the health-insurance industry. A program that actually makes payments to patients if they agree to get treatment from less-expensive health providers saved eight health plans almost $12 million in 2015, according to an analysis by the company that manages the program. The savings seen under a program called SmartShopper translated into a 7-to-1 return on the cash that health plans laid out, according toVitals, which operates SmartShopper and contracts with plans to help control the medical costs…
Super-sonic signal: A signal from Transit-Amplifying Cells (TACs) activates stem cells in the hair follicle, researchers have found. Both types of cells appear in green (top), with TACs clustered lower down. The researchers identified the signal as Sonic Hedgehog. In experiments, such as this one (bottom), they disabled the signal, interfering with hair growth and regeneration. Credit: Image courtesy of Rockefeller University Stem cells switch off and on, sometimes dividing to produce progeny cells and sometimes resting. But scientists don’t fully understand what causes the cells to toggle between active and quiet states. New research in Elaine Fuchs’ Laboratory of…
Twitter has been sweetening employee compensation packages to retain talent as the company’s user growth stalls and it stock price slides, The Wall Street Journal reported. Four top executives left the company in January, the biggest leadership exodus since co-founder Jack Dorsey returned as chief executive last year. The departures added to concerns about the company’s ability to make its product more engaging and generate more money from advertising. Damien Meyer | AFP | Getty Images Twitter has been offering cash bonuses to some employees, ranging from $50,000 to $200,000 as an incentive to keep them around for another six…
Ingrown hair, also known as “razor bumps,” are a common skin condition, particularly in people whose hair has the tendency to curl back or grow sideways in a hair follicle. The result often looks like acne, consisting of tiny round bumps, some of which have a visible hair trapped inside them. They also can be accompanied by pustules and skin discoloration. Furthermore, they can be painful and itchy as well as cosmetically disfiguring. Women and men with coarse and/or curly hair are more prone to developing this condition, and it is more commonly seen in the African and African-American population,…
Getty Images Armed Police Officers stand at the entrance to the Eurostar at St Pancras Station on March 22, 2016 in London, England. In the wake of another devastating terror attack, millions of people are opening up Facebook to check in on friends, and Twitter to share their grief and support. Once again, social media is proving a valuable tool for connecting people after tragedy. In fact, with mobile networks overloaded, people in Brussels were urged to use social media to communicate. Even wireless carriers Proximus SA and Mobistar SA asked customers to communicate via text messaging or social media…
Last week Obsidian dangled the smallest scraps of a new project: Tyranny, a new isometric CRPG built in the Pillars of Eternity engine. A world where the battle between good and evil already took place, and evil won. Here’s the trailer again, in case you need a refresher: Pretty light on the details, eh? Luckily we got a half-hour demo of the project at GDC. The key takeaway: Tyranny might share the same engine as Pillars of Eternity, but that’s about all. This is a wild project. You’re going to miss it all Pillars of Eternity was built in the…