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Apple Eyes Fuel Purchases From Dashboard as it Revs Up Car Software

Apple Inc wants you to start buying gas directly from your car dashboard as early as this fall, when the newest version of its CarPlay software rolls out, accelerating the company’s push to turn your vehicle into a store for goods and services. A new feature quietly unveiled at Apple’s developer conference this month will […]

China Welcomes a Fourth 5G Telecom Provider

China is one of the largest countries around the world. Together with India, it accounts for about one third of the world’s population and two thirds of Asia’s population. The country has been enjoying steady economic growth with a gross domestic product (GDP) increase of about 10 percent each year according the World Bank. However, […]

Chinese Tech Giants Vow to Stop NFT Secondary Trading -State Media

Chinese tech giants including Tencent Holdings and Ant Group have signed a pact to stop the secondary trading of digital collectibles and “self-regulate” their activities in the market, Chinese state media reported on Thursday. The companies were among 30 firms and institutes that have agreed to the “Digital Collectible Industry Self-Discipline Development Initiative” in which […]

Vodafone, Google Look to Extend Wear OS Smartwatch Battery Life

Vodafone is working with Google to extend the battery life of a smartwatch by reducing the “chatter” between the device and the network, a bigger drain of energy than screen brightness and other settings targeted by low power modes. The mobile operator has developed an API (application programming interface) that enables apps and operating systems, […]

It's Alive! How Belief in AI Sentience is Becoming a Problem

AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost every day from users who believe their online friend is sentient. “We’re not talking about crazy people or people who are hallucinating or having delusions,” said Chief Executive Eugenia Kuyda. “They talk […]

Are Play-to-Earn Games the Future of the Gaming Industry?  

Play-to-earn (P2E) games are a new and young phenomenon in the gaming industry, but one that will not stop growing, as it mixes the two things that all people want in their lives; fun and money.   Most play-to-earn games today reward the player with their in-game token, with its worth decided by the amount of […]

Indian Telcos' 5G Bids Seen Muted as Private Firms Jostle for Airwaves -Sources

India’s telecom giants are likely to make muted bids at the 5G spectrum auction in July, on worries they stand to lose about 40 percent in potential revenues due to the allotment of some airwaves to enterprises for private networks, industry sources said. Top player Reliance Industries’ Jio and rivals Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea […]

Why Self-Driving Cars are Still Unsafe?

Car production has been moving from petrol-based cars to electric vehicles with the main aim of fighting climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. The autopilot feature by Tesla in 2014 has been a notable improvement in advanced driver assistance systems taking the autonomy in cars to level 2 on the self-driving car scale out of […]

Bitcoin Falls Below $19,000, Further Shaking Crypto Markets

Bitcoin dropped 6.1 percent to $18,866.77 at 2004 GMT on Thursday, putting the biggest and best-known cryptocurrency down $1,226.41 from its previous close and down 60.9 percent from the year’s high of $48,234 on March 28. Several big players in the cryptocurrency markets have had difficulties, and further declines could force other crypto investors to […]

Is Technology a Good Career Path to Support the Digital Future?

Looking at societies nowadays, you will see that almost everything we do on a daily basis, be it for personal, educational, or even career purposes, is heavily intertwined with technology. This innovative approach to dealing with almost all life aspects can be simply achieved from the tranquility of any intelligent device at our disposal. The […]