Honeywell’s BVLOS suite designed to let drones fly farther and longer

Currently, most electric drones are limited to rather short flight times. Also, in order to maintain radio contact with their operator, they must stay within line of sight. A new Honeywell system, however, is intended to address these limitations.

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Oppo previews upcoming smartphone camera technology

Oppo held an online presentation earlier today to show off the next-gen camera technology that's coming to its future phones, including a new image sensor, and a continuous optical zoom module with integrated optical image stabilization.

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Tready robot uses treaded flippers to overcome obstacles

When it comes to robots designed for traversing rough terrain, there are typically treaded and legged models. The new Tready robot, however, combines the best of both approaches, by utilizing its four treaded "flippers."

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Honor bounces back with Magic 3 Series smartphones

Chinese smartphone brand Honor has launched its first flagship phone since parting ways from Huawei late last year. The Magic 3 series comprises three models, which benefit from Qualcomm chipsets and access to the Play Store and Google services.

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2Africa: Cable backed by MTN, Facebook to land in South East Nigeria 

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The 2Africa cable is bringing a landing point to South East Nigeria, the consortium of tech giants comprising MTN, Facebook and others backing the world’s largest undersea project have said.

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Ahmed Joda: NCC chief pays tribute to ex-Chairman who set tone for exponential telecoms growth in Nigeria

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Nigeria’s telecoms regulatory chief has paid glowing tributes to Ahmed Joda, the Commission’s former Chairman, for setting the tone for the exponential growth of telecoms services in the country.

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Crystal prism provides better control to quantum computer chips

As revolutionary as they could be, quantum computers still have a few issues, such as controlling more than a few dozen qubits. Now researchers have found a way to control potentially millions of qubits at once, by adding a crystal prism to the chip.

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Telecoms: NCC, NESG ‘considering collaboration’ 

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Nigeria’s telecoms regulator and the Economic Summit Group (NESG) say they are to collaborate to deepen the telecoms industry’s contributions to the nation’s economy.

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Magenta 5G drone set to provide live HD footage of sporting events

While drone racing is becoming increasingly popular as a televised sport, the live video from the drones' onboard cameras still leaves something to be desired. T-Mobile and The Drone Racing League are addressing that problem, with a new 5G drone.

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Latest DAP flagship from Astell&Kern rocks three amps and four DACs

Last year, Astell&Kern launched the first DAP to incorporate three digital-to-analog converters, in the shape of the SE200. Now the company has gone one better with the upcoming A&ultima SP2000T, while also debuting a triple amp design.

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