Currently available to only Windows 10 insiders, the update for Skype will be made available to all Windows 10 users in the coming months. If you feel the need for Microsoft’s still experimental Messaging feature, do download the latest version of Skype Preview for the PC and Mobile. Microsoft has updated the app so that it can…
In the future, Google Maps could suggest better routes for traffic management. With Google interested in making its maps more efficient, it was only natural that it acquired Urban Engines, a company which specializes in analyzing traffic data from cities. “Location analytics is an important focus for both Urban Engines and Google, and we’re excited…
Among the first victims of OPEC’s battle for market share was supposed to be oil producers in the North Sea. But despite their decades-old facilities and high-costs, they are proving surprisingly resilient to the price slump. According to estimates by industry consultant Wood Mackenzie Ltd., as projects that were sanctioned before crude’s plunge four years ago…
After Brussels’ ruling that Apple must pay back Ireland €13bn in taxes, Business Roundtable has warned of ‘grievous self-inflicted wound’ for EU and its people. Unless they overturn Brussels’ demand that Apple pay the Irish government €13bn (£11.4bn), US businesses have warned European leaders they risk a “grievous self-inflicted wound”. The Business Roundtable group defended Apple…
Although the technology is still nascent, it signals the end of defibrillators as we known them today. Researchers have come to the conclusion that beams of red light could have the same effect as giving shocks to the human heart in order to ensure that it keeps beating. Scientists have already tested this optical defibrillator…
They are scheduled to be launched in 2017 in Los Angeles. Proterra a startup which specialises in designing electric busses has come out with a model with which it could shake up the transportation market. Its latest model from the Catalyst E2 series of buses have an impressive range of 350 miles on a single…
An announcement that drew another rebuke from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Ford Motor Co Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields said on Wednesday that all of the company’s small-car production would be heading to lower coast Mexico and would be leaving U.S. plants. “We will have migrated all of our small-car production to Mexico and…
With global private equity firms Carlyle Group and TPG Capital separately teaming up with Chinese partners for the business worth up to $3 billion, fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp has received final bids from at least three groups for its China and Hong Kong outlets, reported Reuters citing sources. In their separate bids for the 20-year…
The medical robot can assist surgeons to quickly do precision tasks inside the human eye. This is a must read. Doctors at the Oxford University have created medical history upon completion of their first robot-assisted intraocular surgery. A team of doctors led by Robert MacLaren, Professor of Ophthalmology at Oxford University have managed to carefully…
Two ship brokers with knowledge with the matter told Reuters that two more ships operated by financially troubled South Korean shipper, Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd, have been put up for sale. With offers for the vessels being sought by the end of this month, on Wednesday, details of the container ships, Hanjin Mar and Hanjin…
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