Now that the price roller coaster has ended, and it has been strongly confirmed that Bitcoin is a commodity worth investing in, the race to see who can mine the remaining Bitcoins fastest is on. In a big, big way.
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google released a new book on Tuesday, which he co-authored with a former US State Department terrorism adviser. “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business,” offers compelling arguments for a few interesting predictions.
Microsoft Excel is a tool used widely in modern business, but the software can be quite daunting for beginners. And if you make an error, the consequences could be devastating. But don’t sweat it, we have a few tips to help you get through that spreadsheet a lot faster.
Last month Yahoo bought publishing start up, Summly from a 17 year old British entrepreneur, Nick D’Aloisio for $30 million. It has been a month since the acquisition, and this is what Yahoo have done with the app.
Motion control technology now allows Google Earth users to use their hands to control the imagery software, which sounds superficially boring, until you consider that you now have the option to fly over mountains, seas and cities with the swoosh of a hand.
Anybody up for winning a trip to Mars? Dutch company, Mars One began looking for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars on Monday. The departure date is set for the year 2022, with landing set to be in 2023. And they’re going to finance it with reality TV
The launch of the iPhone 5s coulde be delayed until after June, due to problems with the new fingerprint-scanning feature that was designed by Apple in order to replace the passcode unlocking system.
As of now, there are 1,426 billionaires in the world, but only 29 of them are under 40 years old. The people on that elite list have a total net worth of $199 billion (R1 trillion) between them. Here’s a peak at the top five on that list of 29
In a an event usually reserved for Russian YouTube, night turned to day in Santiago del Estero, Argentina on Saturday evening. The video shows footage taken at a concert when the sky suddenly illuminates, so much so that it looks like day for a split second.
In 1971 the Soviet lander Mars 3 was the first soft landing on the red planet. The lander only operated for aproximately 15 seconds, then the device failed. Since its first landing, Mars 3’s resting place has been unknown.
Google Glass poses some serious questions about the nature of privacy, and our growing obsession with producing and sharing the media of daily life. It may also make criminals think long and hard about committing a large scale public crime.
On Thursday afternoon, Twitter launched a seperate music app on Apple iOS devices, aptly named, #Music. The app is set to be made available on music.twitter.com.
Babies ultrasounds will never be the same with this amazing technology. Have a look at your baby in colour, smile and all.
Scared of going to bed with your aunt? It sounds ridiculous, but if you’re from Iceland, it’s a valid fear. Luckily for them an app has been launched to prevent this from happening
Ocassionally, smart people get a little bit ahead of themselves, and say things that they can’t know to be certain. We call this “prediction”, and getting one right makes you look super smart. Below are a few bright people who made that gamble, and failed.
We’ve all had that phone that constantly drains itself of battery power, way faster than it should. Well, you may actually be to blame for this one. Check out the video below to make sure your charger never wrecks your phone
Dan McLaughlin was one of the few privileged people to get his hands on the much-hyped Google Glass, yesterday. Like anyone else in his position, Don has elected to make a YouTube video showing us the various stages of unboxing a set of Google Glass
Sleek, functional, powerful – if you don’t subscribe to the cult of Mac, the Sony Vaio really should be the only laptop PC you look at. There are a whole bunch going for a song, right here
According to newly released statistics by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in 2012, digital advertising hit a record high of $36,6 billion (R330 billion) in 2012. This spike was partly due to huge growth in mobile and video advertising.
We all love that feeling of getting into fluffy jammies and cuddling up, horizontally, into our feather down beds. But do astronauts have the same luxury? Think again!
The Bay Side area of Silicon Valley attracts crowds of successful entrepreneurs to settle down, owing to its close proximity to a concentrated cluster of hyper-successful tech companies. And boy, do sex workers like this neighbourhood
Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt claims that everybody will be online by 2020, which he stated on his Google+ account this Saturday.
For years, science has agreed that plastic waste is destructive for our environment , but not according to Somerset West inventor, William Graham. To Graham, the tons of plastic waste produced by our society on a weekly basis is an ever-growing stack of gold
A lot of people are not enjoying the feature on Whatsapp which let’s everyone know when last you checked Whatsapp. It’s especially annoying when people have written to you and now know that you are ignoring them as your ‘timestamp’ says you were there..
Identical twins, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have amassed the single largest portfolio of online currency over the last six months, and it’s all in Bitcoins. The Winklevii, as they are better known, say they own nearly 1% of all available Bitcoins.
German security consultant and commercial pilot, Hugo Teso has designed an Android app that could override airplane controls.
The Masters is fast approaching, and if you’re not in the United States to watch live, or don’t have DSTV, this is how you can stream the coverage online
What happens to your data when you die? That question has become increasingly mainstream over the last two years. Thankfully, Google has launched a new tool that will enable users to determine a sending destination for their data in the event that they die.
This is just hilarious. An Australian couple, who were spotted on Google Street view a few miles before, drove ahead and reappeared on Google street view – simulating ‘bonnet-sex’ as the man swigs on a bottle. You need to see this.
The key problem in the area of time travel has been overcoming the problem of transporting one’s physical body into the future. It was reported today that an Iranian scientist who goes by the name of Ali Razeghi has solved that problem by “bringing the future” to us, and not the other way round. Genius.