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Apple to launch phone-to-phone augmented reality: Sources

Apple to launch phone-to-phone augmented reality: Sources

-- 2018-06-02 12:33:12

Tech giant Apple Inc next week will debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent to its servers, two people familiar with the matter said this week...

Throwback Atari fetches $2.0m in pre-orders

Throwback Atari fetches $2.0m in pre-orders

-- 2018-06-01 10:58:16

It's the latest attempt to cash in on gamers' nostalgia - a throwback console that promises "100+" classic games built in, with new online play. Pre-orders for the Atari VCS went into overdrive on We...

Scientists find ice dunes on Pluto

Scientists find ice dunes on Pluto

-- 2018-06-01 10:28:20

Scientists say they have found evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto. The research, which is published in the journal Science, suggests that the distant world is more dynamic than previously t...

Uber, Waymo in talks over driverless-car partnership: Uber CEO

Uber, Waymo in talks over driverless-car partnership: Uber CEO

-- 2018-05-31 13:09:24

Uber Technologies Inc is talking with Alphabet Inc’s autonomous driving unit Waymo about using its technology on Uber’s ride-hailing app, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wed...

Tesla car crashes again

Tesla car crashes again

-- 2018-05-30 13:54:47

The driver of a Tesla Inc Model S crashed into an unoccupied, parked police vehicle in Laguna Beach, California, on Tuesday and the driver told investigators the Tesla was in “autopilot” m...

Scientists measure dolphin ‘happiness’

Scientists measure dolphin ‘happiness’

-- 2018-05-29 20:36:24

Scientists working with dolphins at a marine park near Paris have attempted to measure how the animals feel about aspects of their lives in captivity. In what researchers say is the first project to...

India Uber president to head Asia Pacific operations

India Uber president to head Asia Pacific operations

-- 2018-05-29 16:22:36

Uber’s India President Amit Jain has been promoted to head of the global ride-hailing firm’s Asia Pacific operations, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and India, the...

Nat’l Australia Bank tech outage puts lives in misery

Nat’l Australia Bank tech outage puts lives in misery

-- 2018-05-27 12:52:14

National Australia Bank on Saturday suffered what it described as a “nationwide outage” to some of its technology systems, leaving customers unable to access banking services or withdraw m...

Russia hacked hundreds of thousands of routers: FBI

Russia hacked hundreds of thousands of routers: FBI

-- 2018-05-26 11:41:48

The FBI warned that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic. The US law enforcement a...

Scientists discover vast canyons in Antarctica

Scientists discover vast canyons in Antarctica

-- 2018-05-25 19:37:38

  Scientists have discovered three giant canyons in one of the last places to be explored on Earth - under the ice at the South Pole. The deep troughs run for hundreds of kilometres, cutting th...

Tesla's Musk declares war on media

Tesla's Musk declares war on media

-- 2018-05-25 15:12:40

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk gained the support on Thursday of more than half a million people on Twitter for plans to create a website evaluating journalists’ credibility, spurred by his fru...

EU privacy law heralds new era in online data protection

EU privacy law heralds new era in online data protection

-- 2018-05-25 13:14:49

New European privacy regulations that go into effect on Friday will force companies to be more attentive to how they handle customer data, while bringing consumers both new ways to control their data...

Italy to auction 5G frequencies

Italy to auction 5G frequencies

-- 2018-05-24 17:14:59

Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM said on Wednesday the government would auction frequencies for fifth-generation mobile services in September, in a move it expects to raise at least 2.5 bi...

Ride-hailing firm Go-Jek plans to expand abroad

Ride-hailing firm Go-Jek plans to expand abroad

-- 2018-05-24 15:11:42

Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment firm Go-Jek on Thursday said it would enter Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines in the next few months, investing $500 million in its internatio...

Satellites in orbit to weigh Earth’s water

Satellites in orbit to weigh Earth’s water

-- 2018-05-23 17:10:28

A joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth. The Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last year. Like their predec...

Amazon defends giving police face ID tech

Amazon defends giving police face ID tech

-- 2018-05-23 17:09:05

Amazon has defended working with US police forces to provide facial recognition technology, amid concern from civil rights groups. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and others, said the reta...

Zuckerberg apologises to EU for 'not doing enough'

Zuckerberg apologises to EU for 'not doing enough'

-- 2018-05-23 11:17:32

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to EU lawmakers, saying the company had not done enough to prevent misuse of the social network and that regulation is “important and inev...

China to explore far side of moon

China to explore far side of moon

-- 2018-05-22 17:32:18

China launched a relay satellite early on Monday designed to establish a communication link between earth and a planned lunar probe that will explore the dark side of the moon, the official Xinhua new...

Tesla Model 3 fails CR brake test

Tesla Model 3 fails CR brake test

-- 2018-05-22 14:13:11

Influential US magazine Consumer Reports will not recommend Tesla Model 3 sedan, saying it braked slower than a full-sized pickup truck, taking the shine off a day of gains for shares in Elon Musk&rsq...

Grab to partner with Maybank for mobile wallet in Malaysia

Grab to partner with Maybank for mobile wallet in Malaysia

-- 2018-05-21 15:25:51

Ride-hailing firm Grab will partner with Malayan Banking Bhd, Malaysia’s biggest bank, to drive the usage and adoption of its GrabPay mobile wallet, the companies said in a statement on Monday....

Xbox reveals controller for disabled gamers

Xbox reveals controller for disabled gamers

-- 2018-05-20 12:45:55

Microsoft has unveiled a new Xbox controller with customisable features for disabled gamers. The company's new accessible device is targeted at users with a range of physical disabilities, and is set...

Smart luggage firms close because of airline battery rules

Smart luggage firms close because of airline battery rules

-- 2018-05-19 13:29:21

Two smart luggage firms have closed in May, with both blaming changes to airline policies regarding how lithium batteries can be taken on board planes. Raden and Bluesmart said the changes, by severa...

Murder leads change of plans for China car app

Murder leads change of plans for China car app

-- 2018-05-18 14:24:31

China's leading car-hailing firm is overhauling its service following the murder of one of its users. It is suspending its carpooling service at night, while it is considering making an audio recordi...

Ramadan-related search on Google starts rising

Ramadan-related search on Google starts rising

FE Online Report 2018-05-18 13:23:02

Ramadan-related search trend on Google has started to rise again as millions of Muslims across the world have started fasting from sunrise to sunset today, marking the start of the holy month. As al...

Aliens could be living in parallel universe, claims research

Aliens could be living in parallel universe, claims research

-- 2018-05-17 17:21:34

Radio astronomers from around the world have been glued to their sets for decades to listen to that one sound from somewhere in space which would prove that an alien life, sufficiently advanced, exist...

US senates bats for net neutrality

US senates bats for net neutrality

-- 2018-05-17 15:44:10

The US Senate voted on Wednesday in favour of keeping open-internet rules in a bid to overturn the Federal Communications Commission decision to repeal net neutrality rules, but the measure is unlikel...

YouTube to launch new music streaming service

YouTube to launch new music streaming service

-- 2018-05-17 13:10:28

Music streaming pioneer YouTube said on Wednesday it will launch a new music streaming service, YouTube Music, next week and unveil soon a premium service that will charge more for its original shows....

a2i wins 3 awards in Malaysian exhibition

a2i wins 3 awards in Malaysian exhibition

-- 2018-05-16 23:30:59

Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has won three awards. The a2i won the awards at the International Invention Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX)-20...

Amazon opening checkout-free stores

Amazon opening checkout-free stores

-- 2018-05-16 12:45:26

American electronic commerce giant Amazon Inc is bringing its grocery store without checkout lines to Chicago and San Francisco, the company said in a statement recently, confirming reports it will ex...

UK police face recognition tools ‘inaccurate’

UK police face recognition tools ‘inaccurate’

-- 2018-05-15 12:05:19

The accuracy of police facial recognition systems has been criticised by a UK privacy group. Two forces have been testing facial recognition cameras at public events in an effort to catch wanted crim...