After securing legal and financial backing claims worth more than £1bn against the Royal Bank of Scotland would be filed by small businesses alleging that the bailed-out bank drove them to the wall for its own profit. It is understood that 50 claimants less than a month after its launch have been processed by the RGL…
The manufacturing-friendly process could transform the wearables industry. A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a method to create flexible silicon based transistors in an affordable and impressively fast way. The technique involves using beams of electrons in order to create reusable molds of the patterns that they want, in a…
Its latest developer edition promises increased privacy with native VPN support. For those of us who had to resort to using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in order to dodge content restrictions and/or improve web privacy, installing third party client or using a relatively less popular browser with this built-in feature, is a routine matter.…
Google has made available these videos which can be watched on Chrome. Search engine giant, Google, has made news again, with it commissioning six artists, who are to sculpt and paint with light using its virtual painting app Tilt Brush. With Google, expect good great things: the big G has captured the entire process, so…
The BeoPlay A1 – when you cannot just compromise on audio quality and looks. Danish electronic giant, Bang and Olufsen, is commonly associated with high-end audio gear, and with the launch of its BeoPlay A1, its smallest portable speaker, do expect a world class audiophile-grade device. The portable Bluetooth-enabled wireless speaker, is small enough to…
The disease can be detected by just a normal blood test. One of the issues with Parkinson’s disease is that by the time it manifests, by the time on can detect it, it’s already too late, making its cure a steep uphill battle. However, thanks to the work done by researchers from La Trobe University…
As it struggles to provide enough strong content to attract consumers amid tough local competition Netflix Inc is facing problems in several major Asian markets months after its global rollout. The company also faces many regulatory hurdles, underlining concerns about disappointing subscriber numbers reported this week. The U.S. video streaming giant’s January launch into 130…
To make sure Greece reaches agreed fiscal targets, it was proposed by international lenders to prepare a package of additional savings measures which would be passed into law now, but implemented only if needed. The way for the debt relief would be cleared and the disbursement of new loans to Athens enabled once Greece agrees…
One region is making a surprise comeback after years of declining activity – the Norwegian Arctic, even as the oil industry continues to cut jobs, projects and costs amid low crude prices, company executives and officials say. The number of exploration wells in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea is increasing to 10 in…
An investigator into one of the world’s biggest cyber heists said that Bangladesh’s central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network and did not have a firewall. Mohammad Shah Alam, head of the Forensic Training Institute of the Bangladesh police’s criminal…
