Smartphones are everywhere, but one with features as alluring as the Gionee M6 will always stand the test of time. If you think the way to a man’s heart is food, trust me, the new Gionee M6 will change your mind.
Despite the ubiquitous nature of smartphones, the Gionee M6 is an easy pick for anyone who craves the best in a smartphone. Join me as I take you on my journey to the mysterious phone island where my Gionee masterpiece was discovered.

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SpaceX Plans to Send 2 Tourists Around Moon in 2018

A rendering of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that may be used to launch two people on a journey around the moon. Credit SpaceX

SpaceX, the ambitious rocket company headed by Elon Musk, wants to send a couple of tourists around the moon and back before the end of next year. If they manage that feat, they would be the first humans to venture that far into space in more than 40 years.

Mr. Musk made the announcement on Monday in a telephone news conference. He said two private individuals approached the company to see if SpaceX would be willing to send them on a weeklong cruise, which would fly past the surface of the moon — but not land — and continue outward before Earth’s gravity turned the spacecraft around and brought it back for a landing.

“This would do a long loop around the moon,” Mr. Musk said. The company is aiming to launch this moon mission in late 2018, he said. The two people would spend about a week inside one of SpaceX’s Dragon 2 capsules, launched on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. The spacecraft would be automated, but the travelers would undergo training for emergencies, Mr. Musk said. He did not say how much the travelers would pay for the ride, but the Falcon Heavy itself has a list price of $90 million.

He said the two would-be private space travelers wished to remain anonymous for now, and he declined to describe them except to say that they knew each other. In response to a reporter’s question, Mr. Musk did say the two were not Hollywood people.

No astronauts have ventured beyond low-Earth orbit since the last of NASA’s Apollo moon landings in 1972. NASA is working on a rocket that would once again be capable of taking astronauts to deep space. But that first launch, without anyone on board, is scheduled for late next year. This month, NASA announced that it is looking at the possibility of putting astronauts on the first flight, but NASA officials say that would delay the launch into 2019.

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Huawei P10 launches with AI touch technology and multi-purpose fingerprint sensor The 5.1-inch handset is intended as a direct rival to the iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7

The home, back and recent apps commands all live within the fingerprint scanner below the screen
Huawei has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the P10.
The 5.1-inch handset is intended as a direct rival to the iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7, featuring high-end specs and a number of unusual tweaks.
The P10 comes with a 5.1-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 screen, 64GB of storage, a 3,200mAh battery and a Hisilicon Kirin 960 processor, paired with 4GB of RAM.
The P10 Plus, which has launched alongside it, instead features a 5.5-inch, 2,560 x 1,440 display, 128GB of storage, a 3,750mAh battery and 6GB of RAM.

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Both phones support Huawei Supercharge through the USB Type-C port, which promises a full day of battery life from 20 minutes of charging.
They also run Android 7.0 Nougat, but Huawei has tinkered with the operating system by laying its own EMUI 5.1 software over the top of it.
The company’s also decided to ditch the phone’s soft keys.
The home, back and recent apps commands all live within the fingerprint sensor below the screen. Users have to tap it once to go back, hold it to go home and swipe it to view the recently used apps screen.
Huawei says that maximising the usefulness of the display was the reason behind the move, but we’re not sure users will be too thrilled about having to learn a bunch of new gestures, albeit simple ones.

The smartphone also features something called Ultra Memory, which uses a machine-learning algorithm to optimise memory use, something Huawei claims will make apps open faster.
Ultra Response, meanwhile, enables the phone to predict which areas of the screen the user’s fingers will next touch.
The P10’s camera system is also somewhat unusual, combining a 12-megapixel colour sensor with a 20-megapixel mono sensor.
Huawei calls the system the Leica Dual Camera 2.0 Pro Edition, and says the Portrait Mode included in the P10’s camera app will optimise the lighting in scene to help users capture more “artistic” shots.
The P10 will be available in a wide number of colours, including Ceramic White, Dazzling Blue, Dazzling Gold, Prestige Gold, Graphite Black, Mystic Silver, Rose Gold, Greenery.
Huawei hasn't announced UK pricing yet, but the P10 will cost €649 and the P10 Plus will cost €699 when they go on sale in March.

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Bose Hearphones Earbuds Can Double As Hearing Aids In Noisy Environments

Most earbuds block ambient noise, whether passively or actively, so you can enjoy your favorite tunes without outside distraction. Bose’s new Hearphones, however, don’t do that. Instead, these earbuds actually function as hearing aids, allowing you to amplify and reduce any real-world sounds, so you can tune in to what’s worth listening to.

Designed for use in noisy environments, these earbuds let you tune down the noise, so you can focus in on any conversation you’re having. Whether you’re in a bustling airport, a loud club, or in the vicinity of workers drilling on the road, this thing lets you mute the noise, so you can actually chat with your companion or eavesdrop on a juicy conversation nearby.

The Bose Hearphones take on a form factor similar to the outfit’s QuietControl 30 product, so it looks like just like any normal earbuds you’ll use to listen to music. And, yes, you can actually use it to listen to music, as well as take calls hands-free, complete with active noise cancelling. Except, of course, the directional microphones are sophisticated enough to allow it to filter the different sounds in the environment, allowing you to isolate the ones you want to hear and remove the ones you want to tune out via the accompanying app.
No details on pricing or availability have been announced for the Bose Hearphones.

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Flyboard Air Sets New Hoverboard Distance Record

 

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*Consider us as a part of the doubters when the main mystery for the Flyboard Air turned out a month ago. Turns out, it's more genuine than any hoverboard we've seen some time recently, as the darn thing simply set the Guinness World Record for the uttermost separation went on a drifting transporter.

*As indicated by Guinness, designer Franky Zapata, who likewise made the first Flyboard, rode the gadget a sum of 7,388 feet – more than 6,300 feet more distant than the past record holder. What's more, he did that while playing out a spotless landing, as well, making things look ridiculously useful for what has all the earmarks of being mankind's most noteworthy seek after a useful business hoverboard.

*Amid the record-setting flight, Zapata flew the Flyboard Air 100 feet or so over the water off the shoreline of Sausset-les-Pins in the south of France, moving it from the departure stage on Carry-le Rouet to the nearby port. It achieved a revealed best speed of 44 mph amid the seven moment flight, despite the fact that Zapata Racing claims that the gadget can really hit up to 93 mph, and in addition achieve statures of up to 10,000 feet and remain airborne for up to 10 minutes in a solitary charge.

*Dissimilar to numerous hoverboard ventures that endeavor to emulate a skateboard shape consider, the Flyboard Air really looks more like Green Goblin's air cushion vehicle. Still a work in advance, however, it doesn't seem to have much in the method for security frameworks for the time being, which is the reason Zapata sticks to flying it over water, which ought to permit him to crash securely in case of a breakdown.

Perused about the Flyboard Air's record-setting flight on the Guiness World Records site.

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