As investors cheered the runaway success of Pokemon GO – Nintendo Co Ltd first long-awaited venture in mobile gaming, the company managed to bring the market-value gains to $7.5 billion in just two days as shares of the Japanese company soared again. Players are allowed to walk around real-life neighborhoods while seeking virtual Pokemon game…
This could be a start for those wanting to take a peek at the inner workings of a 1960’s versions of rocket’s guidance system. Although the source code for Apollo 11’s guidance computer has been available online for a while now with Google playing the good host, starting from this week searching through it has been…
Although this happens regularly every 4 years, bitcoin miners seem to be taken by surprise every time. Bitcoin miners just hit a wall. As of July 9, the rewards of letting your computers chug away as bitcoin mining machines fell through the roof as the cryptocurrency cut them by 50%. Although earlier you could have…
As the business looks to new areas such as driverless cars and finance, Baidu – often dubbed the Google of China – will eventually expand into the U.S. and Europe. The chief executive of the Chinese search giant announced recently. Expansion was definitely on the cards, said Baidu CEO Robin Li while speaking at the…
It was a century ago that Albert Einstein had suggested that gravitational ripples through the universe like a stone disturbing the surface of a pond could be generated and sent by large-scale cosmic violence—two black holes colliding, for example. For the first time Einstein has been proven right after physicists in the U.S. conclusively detected…
Flying machines is most likely to soon deliver products to U.S. and Chinese citizens. However even though key developments have happened in the past few weeks, such service is unlikely to be nationwide with regulation still remaining restrictive. New rules on unmanned vehicles were issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) towards the end of…
Lawmakers in Washington are increasingly exerting pressure on Boeing Co.’s historic agreement to provide 109 aircraft to Iran’s national airline. “I am extremely concerned that by relaxing the rules, the Obama administration has allowed U.S. companies to be complicit in weaponizing the Iranian regime,” Republican Representative Bill Huizenga of Michigan said at a hearing of a…
A long-lost sense of glamour has been brought back to travel since the commercial introduction of the Airbus A380 in 2007. With in-flight lounges where bartenders mix bespoke cocktails, the first-class cabins featured with private showers and buttery leather armchairs and a broad staircase reminiscent of a 1920s ocean liner links the two decks, the…
Although similar to microSD cards, due to the pin layout both aren’t compatible. The incompatibility issue can be forgiven in the light of their furious read and write speeds. Although there have been innumerable arguments going back and forth for and against removal storage on smartphones, one thing everybody agrees upon is the bigger the…
With this move Facebook aims to achieve its twin objectives of bringing more users online and onto its social network. So as to mitigate the prohibitive expenses of setting up internet facilities or avoid spotty internet connections, Facebook is set to launch a new feature, which will first feature in India. According to TechCrunch reports,…
