A device created at Ohio State University, can reprogram DNA in cells to transform themselves into other types of cells to treat disease and repair damage. (more…)
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Helio X30 is going to be great. See how it stacks up against Qualcomm and Samsung
MediaTek has generally been considered a runner-up to Qualcomm; while power-wise the Helio X20/X25 MT6797 / MT6797T compete well with Snapdragon 820 and 821, efficiency-wise they are a couple of steps behind, as the MTK X20 / X25 use 20nm process, and Snap 820 / 821 use 14nm process. (more…)
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Meizu Pro 7 Plus has dual AMOLED displays and dual Sony IMX368
Meizu, one of the longest running China brands, and know for putting out phones with quality hardware, is releasing a groundbreaking new phone– Meizu Pro 7 Plus. (more…)
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Incredible. New Blackview BV8000 Pro supports true Global 4G LTE and 3G
The just released Blackview BV8000 Pro supports an incredible number of bands. Equivalent to what you would normally need to pay twice as much to get. This is one of the first few phones which support a near full array of the most important bands to make it truly Global.
This includes North America, as it supports bands 2, 4, 5, 12, 17, which make it 100% comp (more…)
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Teardown of Doogee Mix shows MT6757CH, not MT6757T
Summary
- User furmanoff has done a teardown of Doogee Mix and found “MT6757V” imprinted on the SoC (more…)
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Guess which is which. Doogee Mix goes up against Samsung S5K3L8 Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 camera
While having the Doogee Mix on hand, I thought I’d take the chance to pit it against the very good Xiaomi Redmi Note 4. (more…)
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Chinese OnePlus 5 beats iPhone 7
The Chinese OnePlus 5 has scored an 87, which is 3 points below the top spot in DxOMark Mobile testing. (more…)
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China just turned on the world’s biggest floating solar power plant
China has just turned on the largest floating solar farm in the world. The farm is capable of pushing 40 megawatts of juice and floats on a manmade lake in Anhui, China, according to Sarah Zheng, a journalist with the South China Morning Post.
The plant at Anhui, China is built by Sungrow Power Supply and puts out enough juice to power 15,000 homes. This plant is twice the size of the previous record holder, also in the same region but built by a different company, Xinyi Solar, only a year back.
Ironically, the province of Anhui is a coal-rich area and where the power plant now floats was once heavily mined. According to Zhen, the lake varies in depth from twelve to thirty feet.
Building solar power plants on water offer a couple of big advantages over using land: The water helps to keep the electronics cool, and in the case of manmade lakes keep agricultural land and ecosystems from the harm of being developed.
While this project is ambitious and a milestone for water-based renewable energy, Sungrow Power Supply’s project is just one tiny piece of China’s renewable energy push. The Longyangxia Dam Solar Park on the Tibetan plateau has 4 million solar panels and puts out 850 megawatts of energy. That’s 21x more output than this lake’s juice. And, even that is small compared to the soon to be completed 6 million panel project in the Ningxia Autonomous Region, which is scheduled to put out 2 gigawatts of juice — enough to power 750,000 homes.
China has announced they will invest $361 billion in renewable power by 2020, and by 2022 may possibly produce 320 gigawatts of wind and solar power, and 340 gigawatts of hydropower. According to Zheng, currently a whopping 11 percent of China’s energy comes from renewable energy sources and may reach 20% by 2030.
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Elephone resorts to crowdfunding for Elephone Z1
You’ve got to hand it to Elephone. They have a knack for catching the public’s eye and creating excellent levels of hype and awareness. Quality is another matter, but you certainly can’t fault their aggressive marketing team. (more…)
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Chinese government possibly moving themselves into top dog of the ivory trade
If we rewind to 2007 there was a sad stance that the government in China took on elephant ivory. Ivory carving was considered “intangible cultural heritage”, which more or less gave the public a government signed and sealed permission to do as the wished regarding the sale of ivory. (more…)
