The Trump administration is likely to expand a ban on laptops on commercial aircraft to include some European countries, but is reviewing how to ensure lithium batteries stored in luggage holds do not explode in midair, officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.Any expansion of the ban could impact U.S. carriers such as United Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc and American Airlines Group. Six U.S. and European officials said they expect the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to make an announcement but declined to say when.In March, the U.S. announced laptop restrictions on flights originating from 10 airports including in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey because of fears that a concealed bomb could be installed in electronic devices taken onto aircraft.Britain quickly followed suit with restrictions on a slightly different set of routes. One European official acknowledged that the expanded ban could affect flights to the United States from Britain.DHS spokesman Dave Lapan said Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly “hasn’t made a decision but we continue to evaluate the threat environment and have engaged in discussions with airline representatives and other stakeholders about the threat.”

Improvements to the chip will provide smartphone users with more than a day of talk time, more than five days of music playback, and more than seven hours of 4K video streaming. This has been made possible by combining Qualcomm’s Kyro 280 CPU, Adreno 540 GPU and Hexagon DSP.
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 4 will provide smartphones with five hours of battery life for only five minutes of charging. This is the type of charging benefits customers are getting used to with Android phones: for instance, OnePlus’s Dash Charge gives the 3 and 3T phones 60 per cent charge in only half an hour, using Snapdragon 821.In terms of VR, the new processor will bring more accurate audio, visuals and intuitive interactions, alongside faster VR processing demands, than the previous Snapdragon processors.
Image stabilisation and zoom have been improved on Snapdragon 835 as well as enhancements to auto-focus. Qualcomm Clear Sight, incorporated into the new chip, will fuse together images, bringing improved sharpness, noise reduction and a dynamic range for smartphone photographers.No details have been revealed of the phones that will take advantage of the new chip, but since we know Google, OnePlus and Xiaomi all utilised Snapdragon in recent device releases, we can hope that the new and improved 835 processor could make an appearance on the next generation smartphones coming from these companies in 2017.

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Honor, the mid-range phone arm of China’s phone giant Huawei, has released its latest handset, the 6X.Unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the device has a 5.5-inch, 1920p x 1080p full HD display with 16M colours, giving it a PPI of 403.Inside the 6X is a Kirin 655 octa-core CPU which is said to be perfect for gaming and web browsing and which retains power for long standby and low-priority tasks. This is backed up by 3GB RAM and Honor claims this combination, along with the relatively huge 3,340 mAh battery, means the phone can run for 2.2 days without recharging. The iPhone 7 Plus battery is 2,900 mAh.This processor has the added benefit of super-charging the fingerprint sensor which can be unlocked in 0.3 seconds, according to the official spec sheet. In addition to unlocking the device, this sensor can be used to take, and browse, photos, switch off alarm clocks and make calls.
The device’s dual camera on the rear, which has a 12MP main sensor, with phase autofocus and LED flash, with a secondary 2MP sensor, has been designed to work well in low light. The phone’s so-called Deep Trench Isolation (DTI) also helps reduce noise in photos by isolating pixels to suppress blur.

This lens system comes with six layers to reduce distortion, along with Phase Detection Autofocus Technology (PDAF) that means the camera focuses in 0.3 seconds. This can be used on automatic, or the phone’s Wide Aperture mode. Users can also add photographic effects, including watermarks, and simple editing while on the device.Design-wise, the handset is made of high-strength aluminium alloy which has been anodised twice to make it more scratch-resistant. It has a slighly curved 2.5D display and a curved back that rests in the palm of a hand and its outdoor brightness modes of 450nit make it easy to watch videos or read even in bright light.The Honor 6X is available from January 3 in grey, gold and silver on Honor’s vMall and Amazon for £224.99 exclusively with Three.
Yes, the BLOW Hookah is exactly what you think it is: a giant, battery-powered vaporiser for e-smoking your favourite e-juices spiked with flavours, vitamins, nicotine, or other friendly chemicals. It stands over two feet tall, and it looks like a traditional shisha pipe. But there's no tobacco, no water, no flame, and no charcoal -- it's a vaporiser, and it works just like the e-cigarettes or vapour pens currently flooding the market.

Most of the BLOW's actual vaporiser mechanism -- the heating element and the e-juice -- is hidden within the tip of each individual hose. You load up the cartridge of your choice, then snap the end of the hose into the hookah's base. This way, two people can puff at the same time and be vaporising two completely different concoctions. It works with any sort of vegetable glycerin-based e-juice, which is available from BLOW, from your local smoke shop, or over the web.The tall centre post is mostly battery. A 16,000mAh lithium-ion battery pack provides between 6 and 8 hours of vapage. The addition of a voltage regulator near the hookah's base -- powered by a custom chip designed by BLOW owner Anand Gupta -- is a unique touch. Twist the knob, and you can adjust the power supply to dole out between 3 and 6 volts. The higher the voltage, the higher the volume of e-smoke. So you can decide exactly how vapey you want your vape party to get.How does it taste? Just like a vaporiser or vapour-pen of any other design. It's nice to be able to dial in the exact thickness of the smoke, though the same voltage is sent to both hoses, so both participants have to agree on how much vapour they want from each puff. BLOW makes a wide range of e-liquids, from the traditional flavours you'd find in Levantine hookah bars to new-world flavours like vanilla, mixed berry, and creme brulee.

Some of the e-juices have vitamins, and some have calming chemicals like melatonin or stimulants like caffeine or nicotine. If you want to load it up with recreational fruits and vegetables, you're on your own.
The unit I tested here at Wired was installed on a giant acrylic stand. The guys behind BLOW, Anand and Fritz, designed it primarily to be used in the VIP sections of high-end clubs, which is what the stand is built for. And yeah, the stand is crazy. Green lasers shoot out of the four corners towards the ceiling, and a vibration-sensor makes the multicoloured LEDs inside the opaque stand flash in concert with the throbbing of the bass on the club's sound system. There's even a call button, just like the flight attendant call button on an airplane. Press it and the stand turns red, alerting the server that you're running low on Cîroc.The Hookah alone costs $800 (£491), and comes in black, platinum, gold, or a ridiculously over-the-top bedazzled version.
That price includes the glass base. The stand, which comes with a remote control to adjust the LEDs, costs an extra $900 (£552).

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Wireless charging in mobile phones isn't a new phenomenon. In 2012, Nokia Lumia phones shipped with Qi wireless charging and manufacturers such as Samsung, Google, and LG have incorporated the concept since.In a new patent filed in the US, Sony has shown how it plans to take this technology a step further.The patent appears to describe an antenna system that would allow a device, such as a mobile phone, to transfer power from a wireless charging base station. It also suggests antennas could transmit power from one consumer electronic (CE) device to another. For example, one phone could provide power to another.At least the first antenna system is cooperated with a first CE device and the second antenna system is cooperated with a separate second CE device, the patent says. The system provides a graphical user interface to illustrate each of the identified antenna systems, and receives user instructions corresponding to at least two of the identified antenna systems, to generate configuration instructions in accordance with the user instructions, and to configure selected CE devices in accordance with the configuration instructions.
Images contained within patent documents show two phones next to each other with a visualisation of power moving between the two. There are also images that conceptualise power being wirelessly transferred from a computer monitor to other devices.

Within the patented idea, which was first filed in 2016 and published at the start of March, the method of how devices could find nearby antennas is heavily discussed. This includes how data could be encrypted and how antennas would be shown on a user interfaces – possibly in a similar way to how Wi-Fi access points are displayed on phones and laptops.Unfortunately, the three Sony researchers, James Richard Milne, True Xiong, and Charles McCoy, don't appear to detail the technical details of how such a wireless charging system would work. Although, the company has previously developed its own wireless charging devices so it may be working on the technology within its research centers.As with all patents, the creation of the document and filing of the idea doesn't mean that it will ever come to fruition. Most patents are created to protect future ideas or for technologies that aren't capable at present and will only ever remain on paper.However, researchers at Disney have been working on developing the theories for wireless power that can be used across a room. Dubbed Quasistatic Cavity Resonance for Ubiquitous Wireless Power Transfer (QSCR) the system can convert cabinets, rooms, and warehouses to generate magnetic fields that deliver power to mobile receivers.

An experimental demonstration shows that a 54 m3 QSCR room can deliver power to small coil receivers in nearly any position with 40% to 95% efficiency, Disney researchers wrote in February 2017.Finally, a detailed safety analysis shows that up to 1900 watts can be transmitted to a coil receiver enabling safe and ubiquitous wireless power.While the iPhone 7 may not have enough new features to warrant an upgrade from the 6S, the larger iPhone 7 Plus could have enough to persuade you. Its battery life is staggering, the camera is a great addition and the pressure-sensitive home button and 3D Touch features make it a good all-rounder, albeit not a great one.We can almost copy and paste our views on the iPhone 7 Plus from our review of the iPhone 7. The dimensions are identical to the iPhone 6S Plus, but the iPhone 7 Plus is lighter than the 6S Plus – 188g versus 192g. The iPhone 6 Plus, by comparison, is thinner and lighter than both at 6.9mm (compared to 7.1mm) and 129g. Both the iPhone 6S Plus and iPhone 7 Plus have 12MP rear-facing cameras but the iPhone 7 Plus's front-facing camera has been upgraded from a 5MP to a 7MP sensor.

Again, like the with the iPhone 7, the headphone jack has been removed on the iPhone 7 Plus, leaving the Lightning port. This lack of a headphone jack is inconvenient but Apple stresses it made the change because listening to music through the Lightning port improves the quality.It does, but it’s marginal. Plus, this marginal improvement doesn’t counter for the fact you have to carry around an adapter at all times, this adapter adds a significant bulk to the headphones when plugged in, and you can’t listen to music and charge your phone at the same time.Apple's iPhone 7 Plus, like the iPhone 7, is available in matte black and jet black. The former adds a real sophistication to the device and we were surprised how much a simple colour can add to our opinion of a handset. The latter, conversely, seems like a good idea but scratches easily and makes the phone too slippery for our clumsy hands. The iPhone 7 Plus is also available in silver, gold, and rose gold. Prices start at £719 for 32GB, up to £819 for 128GB and £919 for 256GB.On March 21, Apple added a red model to the lineup, as part of its 10-year partnership with AIDS charity (RED). The (RED) Special Edition comes in red aluminium and is available from March 24. Prices start at $749 for a 128GB model.

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