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Review: Acer Aspire E1-531 Laptop
Recently, I received a laptop to review. Baring in mind that this is my first time reviewing something, plus the fact that I have been a Mac user for years, I was kind of nervous (yet thoroughly...
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Microsoft’s Infinity Room explains big data on a grand scale
Data is all around us, and almost everything has an direct or indirect effect on something else. However, sometimes it’s quite hard to grasp ‘big’ data or the analysis thereof. This is why Microsoft...
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Lean Startup Conference to take South Africa by storm
This weekend-long event is an absolute must for the motivated entrepreneur and gives invaluable insight into building a successful business. While many new ventures fail because they’re focused on...
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Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
The Microsoft Surface tablet is becoming a more compelling buy with every iteration. Microsoft is definitely pitching this as a device that will replace your laptop. This means that it is priced like...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 to feature a Quad HD display
Samsung’s niche Note smartphones aren’t niche anymore, and almost every manufacturer is flocking to larger and larger displays on their devices. Samsung will undoubtedly release a new version of the...
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Google invests $50 million to encourage girls to code
Boys like cars and tools and tech and girls like fashion and make up and shoes, right? Wrong. The tech industry has long been perceived to be for ‘boys only’, but a new initiative by Google is helping...
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First ever microchip went up for auction – no one bought it
The first ever integrated circuit was created in Texas 1958. An Instruments engineer called Jack Kilby design this invention that would form the cornerstone of modern technology. Kilby was eventually...
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Google to have sole control over Android Auto, Wear and TV interfaces
While we do appreciate the fact that having Android be open source means that OEMs can change up the look and feel of it as they please, we feel that some companies go too far in trying to distinguish...
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Samsung teases new Exynos announcement
Not much has been said lately about Samsung’s Exynos processors and for good reason. The Qualcomm variants of all their phones are much preferred the world over, even though the Exynos processors are...
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ASUS Transformer Book V: Laptop hybrid with docked Android phone
If there is one company that has completely against the grain in recent years with their electronic gadgets, it’s ASUS. Recently they have released multiple Padfones – devices that are tablets with a...
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Acer’s Aspire R13 and R14 – Convertible Notebooks
Acer has announced the Aspire R 13 and Aspire R 14 Series, two new convertible notebook lines that can transition between various notebook and tablet style modes of operation. The Aspire R 13′s Ezel...
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Google’s object recognition is insanely impressive
We know how hard it is for computers to know exactly what they are looking at if they don’t have some human assistance, even with very powerful algorithms to do all the work. Google is trying to...
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Samsung now selling a curved PC monitor
Most people around the world still haven’t quite understood why companies are pushing the curved display as the next big thing. To be honest, we can’t see that much benefit either, but it is the...
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Phones to get ultrasound gesture control in 2015 (video)
At the CEATEC 2014 technology show outside Tokyo, Elliptic Labs introduced Multi-Layer Interaction. It is a new technology that uses your hand’s proximity to toggle different actions or layers. This...
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One of first Apple computers sells for close to $1million at auction
Everyone knows that Apple computers are expensive. Whether its a MacBook or an iMac or Mac Mini, you’re sure to be paying a pretty penny for one of these products. But have you ever heard of someone...
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Stephen Hawking uses SwiftKey
We won’t hesitate saying this for the umpteenth time – SwiftKey is our favourite and most useful Android app. It seems that their predictive algorithms are smart enough for Stephen Hawking as well....
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Light-bending silicon strips are the “key to super-fast PCs”
This image does not look like your everyday silicon, no. But scientists at Stanford University believe that it is the future of computing. Their researchers have developed an optical link that uses...
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President Obama learns to code
The president of the United States of America is looking to give the Zuckerberg’s of the world a run for their money. Not really, but president Barack Obama recently did dabble in writing some code –...
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Nvidia GTX 900 series: Which one should you buy?
Unfortunately for most PC gamers there exists a clear and painful disconnect between how fast graphics and gaming technology advances and how fast their salaries increase year on year. So when you are...
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Opinion: The desktop isn’t dated, but our idea of it is
Undoubtedly, if you’ve heard the word Microsoft recently, it’s been prefixed to a new buzzword: HoloLens. If you’re of the small clan who’re uninitiated, HoloLens was debuted by Microsoft on the 21st...
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