Amazon may have another smartphone in the works (update: no)

As it stated in MobileAmazon may have another smartphone in the works (update: no)Hopefully it fares better than the first. In a speech at the Television Critics Association press tour (where Amazon has been very busy), studio head Jennifer Salke said she has the prototype of a future Amazon phone that would reportedly have a better interface for Prime Video. It's not farfetched to envision Amazon getting back into the smartphone business, though. Prime Video would be just one of the potential hooks -- a smartphone could be the key to putting Alexa in your pocket. Update: We've since learned that Salke was referring to the Prime Video app, not a phone.

Yes, your smartphone may be spying on you – but not how you suspect

Yes, your smartphone may be spying on you – but not how you suspectDavid ChoffnesElizabeth Weise | USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO – Think your smartphone is spying on you? Also, none of the apps turned on the phone's camera and shot video of whatever it was pointed at. "This was actually good news," Dave Choffnes, a professor of computer science at Northeastern and one of the researchers, told USA TODAY on Thursday. It was actively making recordings of everything the user did on the app and sending it to AppSee, an app analytics platform. One possible use of the Appsee program is to allow a company to collect a random number of screen videos.

New 3D-printing method may improve smartphone batteries

As it stated in Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed a new method to 3D print battery parts that can vastly improve the capacity and life of smartphone batteries. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, can be used to manufacture porous electrodes for lithium-ion batteries. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Missouri University of Science and Technology in the US developed a method of 3D printing battery electrodes that creates a 3D microlattice structure with controlled porosity. 3D printing this microlattice structure improves the capacity and charge-discharge rates for lithium-ion batteries, according to the research published in the journal Additive Manufacturing. Lithium-ion battery capacity can be vastly improved if, on the microscale, their electrodes have pores and channels.

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