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Smart devices: Is privacy loss inevitable?

Posted in Business on 10th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller

People who use smart devices that monitor what they do will have to get used to giving up some privacy, warns a top technologist.

Be My Eyes app lets you lend your eyes to the blind

Posted in Software on 31st Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Be My Eyes is a new mobile app that aims to help blind people in situations where they need to see something.

Next stop for Google Wallet: the U.K.

Posted in Software on 29th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Google is finally starting to roll out Gmail support for Google Wallet outside of the U.S. Starting today, users in the U.K. can use Gmail to send money peer to peer.

Elon Musk plans for 4000 toaster sized micro-satellite network for global internet

Posted in Hardware on 27th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Elon Musk has proposed a network of some 4,000 micro-satellites to provide wireless broadband Internet services around the globe.

Mozilla Wants To Bring Virtual Reality To The Browser

Posted in Software on 25th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Mozilla launched a very experimental version of Firefox with support for web-based virtual reality apps that could be experienced through the Oculus Rift.