In Western areas of the world, seeing someone on a cell phone is a frequent occurrence – in less than two decades, the cell phone has become ubiquitous in the Western world. In fact, most of the people I know have at least one cell phone, with an older backup model gathering dust in a… Continue reading Technology Makes Mobile Phones More Common Than Toilets
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The iPad: for the Gamer at Heart
Even if you aren’t a big tech nerd with a love of what ALL technology is capable of, you know what the iPad can do. Even if it’s the simple knowledge that the iPad can do a million and ten things, that’s enough to bring someone to look up what it can do. Gaming is… Continue reading The iPad: for the Gamer at Heart
Tablet PCs Beyond Apple
Tablet computers immediately make you think of Apple but this may not be the case forever. Apple changed the way in which we appreciate and utilise technology by making it personal and there is no doubt that we all owe the Late Steve Jobs a huge amount for the innovations he brought us through the… Continue reading Tablet PCs Beyond Apple
27 Million Homes Have Their TVs Connected Online
In the past decade, technology has made leaps and bounds. Imagine 2002 and how limited we were to what our tech gadgets would allow us to do. Now our gadgets have evolved in ways that more closely relate to the tasks we want to accomplish, the entertainment we enjoy, and how we imagine our future… Continue reading 27 Million Homes Have Their TVs Connected Online
Instagram: The White Man’s Folly
Like me and millions of others, you probably have a smartphone. I was relatively late to the smartphone craze, buying one only when all the cheap-ass options had been thoroughly exhausted, and so I was surprised when I came to learn of the technological turf war going on between iPhone and Android users. Apparently people… Continue reading Instagram: The White Man’s Folly
Digging Into The Origins Of Mining
For many years since the pre-historic era, humans have been excavating the planet for nature’s valuables and resources such as metals, coal, and even water. But with all this digging into the ground, there is still not much common knowledge about the origins of mining and how methods have evolved throughout history. Beginnings of MiningSince… Continue reading Digging Into The Origins Of Mining
5 Things We Do With Our Mobile Phones
Just a few years ago, we were using our phones to make a few phone calls and send a few texts, that was literally the extent of their ability. These days, we use our mobiles for so much more so let’s take a look at what else we now rely on our phones for. Take… Continue reading 5 Things We Do With Our Mobile Phones
Outsourcing Solutions: Wave Of The Present?
Hiring people, keeping them and then laying them off after a time due to unavoidable reasons are all a part of a tiresome cycle in the business world. It is a costly chore that may even lead a business to plummet to its doom. But that can all change through outsourcing solutions. Outsourcing is now… Continue reading Outsourcing Solutions: Wave Of The Present?
Developing An AI That Can Build Video Games
Michael Cook, a PhD student with the Computational Creativity Group at Imperial College in London, aims to bring his PhD project “Games By Angelina” to the masses! He wants to answer one simple question that no one seems to have answered yet: Can we evolve entire arcade games from nothing? The basic concept is that… Continue reading Developing An AI That Can Build Video Games
Lawyers Are The New Heroes Of Silicon Valley
In the daily IT news we hear about the constant legal back and forth disputes that exist in Silicon Valley, and the IT industry in general. Times must be great for the intellectual property lawyers of Silicon Valley and indeed they are. A simple view of the situation might make us think that a good… Continue reading Lawyers Are The New Heroes Of Silicon Valley