Technology
Apple to open $2 billion solar-powered, global command center in Arizona
Apple unveiled plans Monday to pump $2 billion over the coming decade into a data center “global command” facility in the southwest state of...
Management reshuffle planned after Google Glass axed for good
When Google announced it was halting sales of its Glass device earlier this month the firm’s message was upbeat: Glass was simply being “graduated”...
Amazon launches work email and calendar service in £6.6bn revenue drive
Amazon.com Inc has accelerated its efforts to win over corporate clients by announcing an email and scheduling service that will compete with Microsoft...
Amazon launches work email and calendar service
Amazon.com Inc accelerated its efforts to win over corporate clients on Wednesday by announcing an email and scheduling service that will compete with...
Apple Watch to start shipping in April
Start prepping your wrists: The long-awaited Apple Watch will start shipping this April. During Apple’s quarterly earnings call this Tuesday, CEO Tim...
Hack attack NOT to blame for global Facebook and Instagram outage
Access to Facebook, the world’s largest social network, and its Instagram photo-sharing site, were blocked around the world for up to an hour on...
Mass log on as China’s growing online population nears 650 million
China hit a new milestone over the weekend as the world’s largest online population continues to rise, with the number of Internet users now nearly...
iPad app brings braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for almost everyone, but there’s one sector of the population...
Google and Facebook go head-to-head to land 15-year-old App whizzkid
Facebook and Google are battling to woo a 15-year-old whizzkid who developed an app which has been downloaded 500,000 times.
13-year-old invents Braille printer with Lego and gets venture capital funds
A 13-year-old American boy is thought to be the youngest entrepreneur ever to receive venture capital after he invented a Braille printer using Lego.
LG flex their muscles by getting a curved smartphone on the market
LG Electronics will start selling a new curved smartphone next week in its latest effort to bring the curve to a mass market. The South Korean company...
WhatsApp adds messaging from Web - but only for Android users
Popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook last year for £14.5bn, has unveiled a new service for sending messages from a Web...
WhatsApp adds messaging from Web - for Android users
The popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook last year for nearly $22 billion, unveiled a new service Wednesday for sending...
Teen whiz kid earns Intel funding with low-cost Lego braille printer
In Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. The California eighth-grader has launched...
Teen builds braille printer out of Lego and wins Intel funding
In Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. The California eighth-grader has launched...
British spy agency tapped emails from journalists all over the world, says report
Britain’s electronic spy agency GCHQ tapped the emails of journalists at some of the world’s top media organisations, according to the Guardian. The...
Mexico to use drones to protect endangered porpoise
Mexico has begun testing unmanned drones that could help it save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise, which is...
British spy agency tapped journalists’ emails
Britain’s electronic spy agency GCHQ tapped emails of journalists at some of the world’s top media organisations, the Guardian reported on...
Billionaire inventor keeps high-speed hyperloop dream alive
Billionaire inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk appears to have lost patience waiting for others to make the dream of his fast-paced hyperloop concept...
$1 billion Switch data centre near Reno will be world’s biggest
The largest lithium battery factory in the world is getting a new neighbor at an industrial park east of Reno — the world’s biggest data center.
Coming soon? Airbased overground transport that can travel at 1300kph
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is building a five-mile test track for a new ground transport system which could move people at speeds of up to 1300kph.
Teen ‘Lizard Squad’ hacker arrested over Xbox and Sony cyber attacks
A teenager believed to be a member of hacking group Lizard Squad has been arrested in England following cyberattacks on Sony PlayStation and Xbox systems...
Autonomous autos: Self-driving cars on roads in 2 to 5 years, Google predicts
Google has begun discussions with most of the world’s top automakers and has assembled a team of traditional and nontraditional suppliers to speed...
Facebook takes on LinkedIn by testing workplace version of social network
Facebook has revealed it is taking on LinkedIn and testing a version of its leading social network tailored for getting jobs done in workplaces instead...
Google expects public in driverless cars in two to five years
The head of self-driving cars for Google expects real people to be using them on public roads in two to five years.
The royal ‘we’: Wills, Kate and Harry set up Kensington Palace feed
A Twitter feed highlighting the work of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry has been launched.
Amazon’s new TV series is a total mystery – even to its creator Woody Allen
Amazon Studios has given Woody Allen carte blanche to create his first-ever TV series.
Chin up: Digital devices may be causing premature wrinkles and jowls
With the proliferation of wireless mobile devices, there have been increased concerns about possible health risks associated with their constant use.
The drones are coming, but probably not in the way you think
Forget the vision of drones delivering book orders put forward by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos.
New transport options aim to be ‘un-Segway’
A host of newfangled wheeled devices unveiled this week offer innovative solutions to urban transport which could fulfill the failed ambitions of the Segway.
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