Founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, engineer and billionaire Elon Musk delivered a speech on Code Conference in California. There, he said that his company may start sending humans to Mars already by 2024. Mr. Musk is going to present full project of Mars development by September. For now, he told the forum participants about how wonderful the future would be if it was possible to extend the life...

Japanese Nintendo, specializes in the development of game consoles and games for them, is going to try its hand at filmmaking. Now, it’s not about granting licenses for use the characters in movies, but about its own production. Asahi Shimbun newspaper, quoting Nintendo’s President Tatsumi Kimishima, says that the company intends to do filming with heroes from the company’s games. Thus, the...

Virtual reality got Google interested so much that the corporation may issue new headset complemented with specialized software, which already has a name - AndroidVR. There’s a week before start of a new developers’ conference. Presumably, there will be introduced a new virtual reality helmet. In addition, Google may announce software called AndroidVR, traces of which were found in a recent patch...

Airbus, along with scientists from France and Japan, is developing humanoid robots that will work on assembly lines and inside aircraft side by side with humans. This is a significant advance in the use of industrial robots. The company hopes that such creatures will appear at its plants in 10-15 years. Aircraft manufacturers are lagging behind the automakers in using robotics. The lower volume...

CareKit, a new programming environment from Apple created to give everyone the opportunity to actively monitor their health, is now available for developers. iPhone applications, which use CareKit, help people monitor implementation of medical recommendations, manifestation of symptoms and medication taking. The ability to transmit information to doctors, nurses and family members through CareKit...

Chinese Huawei company introduced its virtual reality helmet, called Huawei VR. The device is designed to compete with Samsung Gear VR. Like its South Korean "colleague", the Chinese helmet is paired with a flagship smartphone. In this case, this is Huawei models P9and P9 Plus. Huawei VR is compatible with several new models of Huawei smart phones - P9, P9 Plus and Mate 8. Outwardly, it looks...

Mass exploitation of dangerous vulnerabilities in Android-based devices is greatly complicated by the market’s fragmentation. According to Square’s expert Dino Dai Zovi, fragmentation of the Android-devices market makes life of cybercriminals hard, and plays into the hands of the owners of Android-gadgets that are running outdated of unpatched OS. Dai Zovi has stated this point of view during his...

Apple’s recently announced smartphone iPhone SE looks almost identical to the old iPhone 5S, yet the new capacity can compete with the flagship iPhone 6S. Recently, the smartphone has been tested by AnTuTu benchmark. The device was able to surpass its predecessor iPhone 6S, the result amounted to 134 358 points against 129 990 in the "sixth" model. However, the newcomer couldn’t beat the phablet:...

What's new in the science world? 1. Screen wipers for a helmet British consumers now can buy wipers for motorcycle helmets. Feasibility of this gadget is somehow doubtful, yet here is it: modern compact electronics and powerful batteries together make up a device that does not take up much space, can be easily attached to any helmet with help of suction cups , runs on a single charge up to 3...