Google Sued By Male Ex-Employee, Alleges Discrimination Against White Conservative Men
Jan 09, 2018 14:07 pm UTC| Technology
In a rather unusual turn of events, a former employee of Google is suing the company for supposedly discriminating against white male conservatives. Often, tech giants are sued for discriminating against minorities,...
Samsung’s 146-Inch TV Is So Big, It’s Called ‘The Wall’
Jan 09, 2018 14:00 pm UTC| Technology
It seems TV screens are getting bigger every year and Samsung just upped the ante by showing off a new set that it is calling The Wall during the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. At 146 inches, this TV is officially a...
Electric Plane Takes Flight, Cleaner And Safer Than Conventional Aircraft
Jan 09, 2018 13:59 pm UTC| Technology
Thanks to air travel, the sky has become incredibly crowded with jet planes zipping across the globe on a daily basis. This has led to the aero industry becoming one of the biggest contributors to global warming. In an...
Uber And VW Are NVidia’s Next Self-Driving Customers
Jan 09, 2018 13:54 pm UTC| Technology
NVidia has been trying to carve a place for itself in the budding self-driving industry and it seems it just snagged two major customers for the technology it is developing. These customers are Uber and VW, and with the...
Major Tech Companies Files Lawsuit Against FCC Over Net Neutrality Repeal Via Internet Association
Jan 09, 2018 13:53 pm UTC| Technology
The Internet Association (IA) is a collective of major tech industry giants and organizations with the mandate being the preservation of a free internet. This cooperative recently announced that it would be filing a...
Intel Bug Causes Fortnite Servers To Glitch, Epic Games Says
Jan 09, 2018 13:51 pm UTC| Technology
Well, it seems the Meltdown vulnerability that was recently discovered in Intel chips really is having an effect on the gaming community, but not in the way that a lot of people feared. Instead of significantly slowing...
AR Glasses With Amazon Alexa Shown Off At CES 2018
Jan 09, 2018 00:35 am UTC| Technology
As yet more evidence that it has become the proving grounds for new technology, the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show saw the introduction of the first augmented reality glasses equipped with Amazons Alexa smart assistant....
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects