Apple posts first quarterly drop in revenue in 13 years

Apple has reported its first drop in revenue in 13 years after the tech giant sold 10 million fewer iPhones in the first three months of this year than during the same quarter a year ago.
It is the first-ever year-over-year decline in iPhone sales.
The slide is putting more pressure on Apple and CEO Tim Cook to come up with its next big product.
Cook, of course, has problems many corporate bosses would kill to have. Despite the decline in sales, Apple managed to rack up $10.5bn in profit for the

Scientists Can Stream Netflix Through a Steak, and It’s Actually Awesome News for Doctors

Researchers at the University of Illinois successfully streamed HD video through raw meat. 

That doesn't mean projecting a Netflix video onto a pork loin. 

The researchers transmitted "real-time video-rate data through large hunks of pork loin and beef liver," UPI reported. Delicious. 

Source: Engineering at Illinois

The researchers placed a device on either side of the meat, wirelessly transmitting the data through the meat from one device to another. The use case the researchers envision in medical research would be sending data from a medical implant device through a human body

Sony PS4K is codenamed NEO, features upgraded CPU, GPU, RAM—report

Sony may be tight-lipped for now, but it's looking increasingly likely that the company will release an updated version of the PlayStation 4 later this year. So far, the rumoured console has gone under the moniker PS4K or PS4.5, but a new report from gaming site GiantBomb

Samsung's new 4K TVs cost anywhere from $1,499 to $19,999

Samsung has been slowly unveiling its 2016 TV lineup over the last couple of months, and now it's finally saying when you'll be able to get some of them — and for how much. The gist is: Samsung has five new lines of its SUHD TVs, which all have 4K, quantum dot displays that support HDR video. Samsung also says they a feature called "Ultra Black" that reduces reflections to create deeper blacks on screen. Basically, these TV sets should look really good and, for the moment, at least, sound fairly future proof.

Here's the specific breakdown.

The KS9800.

The KS9800 is Samsung's huge new top of the line series. It's curved, and includes 65-inch, 78-inch, and 88-inch models,

This cute little dancing robot smartphone costs a small fortune

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Sharp's RoBoHon is definitely not your normal smartphone. For starters, it's a robot. Secondly, it dances. Can your iPhone or Android phone dance? Exactly.

How much for Japan's quirky robot smartphone?

The next Apple Watch won’t change that much, even though it should

If you were looking forward to the Apple Watch 2.0 in 2016, a well-known analyst has just thrown a nice bucket of ice-cold water on the idea.

According to Apple Insider

Spring Games Guide 2016

 

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March 25, 2016

A few great games aside, 2016 isn’t exactly off to a huge start. That’s about to change. Spring, typically a pretty busy season for gamers, goes virtually bananas this year thanks to the arrival of both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive.