Samsung To Venture Into Self-Driving Cars With New Division, Team
Dec 09, 2015 16:51 pm UTC| Technology
Theres a new big player in the self-driving car business. On Wednesday, South Korean giant Samsung Electronics confirmed that it is setting up a new division whose focus is to develop technology such as components that...
Mozilla Kills Firefox OS For Mobile, Bows Out Of Smartphone Market
Dec 09, 2015 16:24 pm UTC| Technology
On Tuesday, Mozilla confirmed that it will no longer develop its Firefox OS, a browser-based operating system for mobile. Computer World reports that after over four years of work to build a smartphone operating system,...
Bitcoin Creator Sakatoshi Nakamoto Is Aussie Computer Genius? Police Raids Computer Genius’ Home
Dec 09, 2015 15:38 pm UTC| Technology
Is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto Australian? That appears to be so after a couple of high-profile tech news sites outed the supposedly cryptocurrency creator. One of the news sites, WIRED, said it has evidence to prove...
HTC Vive Launch Happening In April 2016, To Demo Headset In SWSX, Sundance, MWC
Dec 09, 2015 15:20 pm UTC| Technology
HTC recently clarified its official launch of the highly-anticipated virtual reality headset HTC Vive. In August, the company promised that it is eyeing for an official launch in the first quarter of next year. In a...
Zuckerberg is ploughing billions into 'personalised learning' – why?
Dec 09, 2015 15:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes personalised learning is the answer to many of educations current woes, and is one of the four key areas that he and his wife Prescilla Chans US$45 billion Chan Zuckerberg...
Google Pixel C Sells In UK Starting At GBP399 Without Keyboard
Dec 09, 2015 14:55 pm UTC| Technology
On December 8, Google launched a new flagship product from its Pixel product line. According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the new Pixel C is a step to help the transition from desktop computing with mobile computing,...
Google’s Alphabet Spins Off Life Sciences To Verily To Detect Cancer
Dec 09, 2015 14:29 pm UTC| Technology
In what appears to be a strategic move to diversify its business, Alphabet Inc has relaunched its Life Sciences division as a new spinoff company known as Verily. In an introductory video, former Google showed that Verily...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects