Brexit: 'Surge' in searches on Irish passports, says Google

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Image caption Google searches related to the EU referendum spiked in the hours after polls closed

Google has said there was a dramatic spike in searches for Irish passport applications as news of the UK's decision to leave the EU broke.

The overwhelming majority of the searches came from Northern Ireland.

When science vloggers?

When science vloggers gather around an electromagnet experiment, you know something exciting is about to go down.

In a YouTube video posted this week, we see Dianna Cowern of "Physics Girl," Joe Hanson of "It's Okay to be Smart" and Joe DiPrima of "Arc Attackmusic" destroy an empty soda can with an electromagnet.
The aluminum can sits inside a thick coil of wire. The trio then sends an electrical current through wire, which creates the electromagnet. In turn, the electromagnet dramatically rips the can apart with a loud bang and quite a few sparks.
Luckily, they film the experiment using a Phantom high speed camera, capturing the impressive explosion at 11,000 frames per second.

Apple's 'Apps for Earth' Campaign Raises More Than $8M for World Wildlife Fund

 by Juli Clover

Apple and the World Wildlife Fund this week announced that the recent "Apps for Earth" promotion has raised more than $8 million in proceeds to support the WWF's conservation work.

The Apps for Earth promotion, timed to take place to celebrate Earth Day, ran from April 14 to April 24 and saw dozens of apps offering special in-app purchases with 100 percent of the proceeds going directly to the World Wildlife Fund.


Many of the participating apps, which included titles like VSCO, Trivia Crack, Hearthstone, and Angry Birds 2, heavily promoted the fundraiser, even going so far as to change app icons and graphics during the time that it ran. Apple itself updated the theme of the App Store's front page to highlight the promotion,

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your phone

Your phone can help you navigate from one side of the country to the other, help you share memories with friends, or even identify the song that's playing right now. But it can’t answer basic (and important) questions like, “Where’s the nearest building exit?” or “Will this couch actually fit in my apartment?” That’s because while your phone may know where you are in the world, it doesn’t know where you are

Apple's Siri calls ambulance for baby

By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News

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Image caption Giana made a full recovery.

A woman from Cairns, Australia, used Siri to call an ambulance for her one-year-old daughter when she stopped breathing.

Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the child's room to help her but dropped it as she turned on the light.

U.S. ITC launches probe of certain portable electronic devices

The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had launched a patent infringement investigation into the import and sale of certain portable electronic devices utilizing haptic technology.

It said the investigation was based on a complaint filed by Immersion

South Korea trials wireless seat alerts for pregnant train travellers

By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News

 

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Image caption The pink light over the seat is activated wirelessly

A bluetooth system that alerts underground train users to give up their seats for pregnant travellers has been trialled in South Korea.

The Pink Light campaign was tested by 500 pregnant women in the city of Busan over a five-day period.
The women carried sensors that activated pink lights by priority seats on the Busan-Gimhae Light Rail service.

Apple's 2017 iPhone May Feature Dual-Curve OLED Display

 by Juli Clover

Though the 2017 iPhone is more than a year away from launching, we're already hearing non-stop rumors about the device due to the major design changes Apple is expected to introduce. The latest rumor, coming from IHS analyst Kevin Wang, suggests the 2017 iPhone will include a dual-curve OLED display that covers the left and right edges of the device.

On Chinese social networking site Weibo (via PhoneArena), Wang said Apple will release a device with sloping edges similar to the Vivo XPlay 5 or the Galaxy S7 Edge.

Kevin Wong's exact words are that after Vivo outed the Xplay 5 with its 5.4" OLED screen that slopes to the sides like on the S7 edge, there will be more manufacturers using this technique, including Apple with next year's iPhone.

Apple is already rumored to be using flexible OLED displays for the 2017 iPhone, which will be necessary for any kind of dramatically curved display. It is not clear from Wang's statement how far the display will extend to the edges of the device and whether it will be a subtle curve for