As Europe’s populist right leaders wrestled with how to deal with the new U.S. president, they predicted Donald Trump’s entry into the White House will herald the end of the old way of doing business in the west. While German Chancellor Angela Merkel was trying to reassure her supporters at a meeting in the country’s…
The move comes midst Twitter’s withdrawal from the e-commerce market while it looks to focus on its core products. Google has purchased Twitter’s developer platform which is known as Fabric. Acquired by Twitter in 2014, Fabric is a “a modular mobile platform” that is designed to aid programmers to improve the “stability, distribution, revenue and…
Artic’s GMO Apple fruits on sale may not be labelled as such, and could only feature QR code which when scanned will tell you of their GMO background. Thanks to GMO produce, mushrooms will not be the only non-browning item on store shelves, Golden Apples which don’t oxidize for 3 weeks after they have been…
To cope with a “hard” exit by Britain from the European Union, Global banks have begun signaling how they will put plans into action. Depending on whether the outcome of Brexit was “hard” or “soft”, banks have considered varying degrees of upheaval to their British-based businesses until now. But bankers have already begun giving more…
According to a top Silicon Valley venture capitalist and former Apple executive, Brexit could boost the U.K.’s ability to create the next several-hundred-billion-dollar technology firm. On Tuesday, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May gave a speech suggesting that any deal reached with European lawmakers will be put to a parliamentary vote and last year, Britain voted…
A top roboticist believes that from becoming a Nobel Prize winner to working in the sex industry, robots will get smart enough to choose their own life path. This has added concerns about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). Sophia is a life-like robot that has 62 facial expressions and can react to spoken word and…
Patent for a network that manages a very specific aspect of the self-driving experience: How autonomous cars navigate reversible lanes, has been awarded to international online retailer Amazon. Reversible lanes are a potential disaster zone for self-driving cars that haven’t yet been programmed to understand those signals and hence reversible lanes indicate a change in direction of…
Its sensor packed platform helps not only consumers but retailers as well. Although technology is continuously reinventing your shopping experience, Intel wants to lend it a helping hand and speed things up. Intel is launching a Responsive Retail Platform which essentially standardizes your in-store shopping experience with a common set of sensors, components and a software…
Although the lists only takes into account their energy usage and does not factor in their attitude, many tech giants will have to source their energy requirements from alternative energy sources to better their grades. Although almost everyone on the planet craves for high speed internet access, it turns out that data centres that power…
The California Air Resource Board and the EPA have found the automaker in violation of their respective laws. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has notified Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) that it is in violation of the Clean Air Act, since its software installed in some of its diesel vehicles increased the emission of its…
