Apple launches its latest range of devices today including three new iPhones, as well as upgrades for the Apple Watch, Apple TV, and AirPod Wireless headphones. The iPhone X, a premium version will feature an all-screen display, facial recognition software, and wireless charging at a record price of £1, 149 ($1, 149). At Apple’s annual launch…
James Damore, a Google engineer, who had been on a PhD programme in systems biology at Harvard University, wrote a memo arguing that women were less suited than men to engineering and leadership jobs in the tech industry have been sacked. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, sharply criticised the engineer, saying that he had breached…
Sony has reported its highest quarterly earnings in 18 months and boosted their profits by stellar games unit. Sony’s games titles hit top-10 weekly rankings of global console game sales. Sony’s Playstation 4, the games console whose 60m consumer base is twice as big as its nearest competitor – Microsoft’s XboxOne. Gamers are getting ready…
Apple posted its third quarter earnings a found a way to restore some of its lost momentum in sales as revenue grew 6 per cent year over year and profit was up 12 per cent over the same period in 2016. Apple’s IPad sales were up 15 per cent from last year with the sale…
Researchers discovered the molecule, vinyl cyanide (acrylonitrile), for a “ protocell” that might be stable and flexible in liquid methane, “ according to astronomer Jonathan Lunine from Cornell Chemical engineers. Scientists have found the first indisputable evidence of the presence of a molecule – acrylonitrile – on Titan, which may be key to exotic life…
India to have 1bn broadband subscribers by 2022 and the internet penetration, under the first phase of the project several villages are to be connected by optical fibre cable. There are 422.19 million broadband subscribers at present. However according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman RS Sharma, “Low broad penetration in India will…
Small-town Michigan boy, Claude Shannon, a brilliant thinker and digital pioneer, making the discovery of a dry theory that created history was fundamental for the information age. The Mathematical Theory of Communication and its publication in the late 1940s was followed by a wave of popular interest, as in the early 20th century including Mid-western…
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian professor, philosopher and public intellectual was universally regarded as the father of communication and media studies. Visionary Marshall McLuhan’s centennial celebration highlights his eloquent introduction lays out just a precis of the insights to “ the first seer of cyberspace”. Thirty years before the World Wide Web was invented, Marshall…
A California-based start-up company was able to create a tiny device called TrackR, that works with your smartphone, and could be exactly what you are looking for. Time and again it has proven that California is a veritable gold mine of entrepreneurial talent. The state-of-the-art tracking device the size of a quarter is changing the…
Researchers from the University of Oxford and Imperial College London have recreated the effects of Supernovae- violent star deaths- within the confines of their laboratory, using one of their largest, most intense lasers on the planet, as part of their research at the week-long Royal Society of Summer Science Exhibition. Witnessing these experiments can help…