Will you die in the next five years? This online test reckons it can predict the answer June 4, 2015 They say there are only two certainties in life – and now you can (rather creepily) work out the likelihood of one of them happening in the next five years, thanks to a new online questionnaire which claims to predict your chance of death with 80 per cent accuracy. The Ubble Longevity Explorer, created by [...]
Deutsche Bank eyes FinTech startups with innovation labs in London, Berlin and Silicon Valley June 4, 2015 Deutsche Bank is the latest big lender to turn to the startup world for business innovation, eyeing FinTech startups to help kickstart its €1bn (£735m) digital strategy with the opening of three new innovation labs in Europe and the US. The bank will partner with HCL, Microsoft and IBM to open centres in London, Berlin and Silicon [...]
Yahoo! will stream Wembley NFL clash between Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars live around the world June 3, 2015 Yahoo! has announced that it will live stream the American football match that will be played in October at Wembley Stadium, to a global audience. The deal is reported to be worth about $10m (£6.5m), although the price has not been disclosed. The match, which will be between the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars, [...]
Project Jacquard: Google and Levi’s to launch world’s first pair of “smart” jeans June 3, 2015 Google is to team up with Levi’s to manufacture the world’s first pair of “smart” jeans. The digital denim will be made using a revolutionary new fabric interwoven with conductive material. The firms have not revealed exactly what the jeans will be capable of, but the technology can be used to interact with smartphones [...]
Google I/O 2015: From Projects Vault and Brillo to smart jeans and cardboard virtual reality, the impossibly advanced technologies unveiled in San Francisco June 3, 2015 BRILLO Essentially an operating system for the Internet of Things (IoT), Google’s Project Brillo is an adapted version of Android designed to manage a number of connected devices from a central management console. It’s Google’s attempt at standardising the way we control devices, from household appliances like Nest (which, incidentally, Google owns) to wearables [...]
Apple issues global recall for Beats Pill XL due to fire safety risk, including UK June 3, 2015 Apple has issued a voluntary global recall of a Beats speaker range due to concerns overheating could cause a fire. Owners of Beats Pill XL in all five colours have been warned not to use the speakers and return them to Apple for a refund or credit. The speakers, worth £215, have been on sale since January [...]
Microsoft lets slip that it’s launching a Wi-Fi app June 3, 2015 Microsoft is launching a new Wi-Fi app that will give access to nearby internet connections. The tech company let slip that the new service is on its way when it accidentally put live a website called microsoftwifi.com. Though details have now been removed – the website says simply "coming soon" – it outlined a service [...]
Could the humble password about to become a thing of the past? Here’s how brainwaves are being used in the battle for cyber security June 3, 2015 A new system allowing accounts to be unlocked using brainwaves could spell the end for passwords as we know them. Named “brainprints”, the system is the creation of a research team at Binghamton University in New York, and involves an application that can identify a person based on nothing more than their mental reactions to [...]
City set for a decade of job growth as finance and technology hiring to soar in London June 2, 2015 Booming finance and technology hiring will help create 145,000 new jobs in central London over the next decade in a sustained bounce-back from the financial crisis, according to a study out today from the City of London Corporation. The Square Mile can expect an additional 39,000 workers, with the remainder created across the other central [...]
Streams are the new downloads: Apple music service rumours swirl as Netflix tests ads and Spotify experiments with video June 2, 2015 The battle to dominate the growing online media streaming market, and to make money from it, is about to go up a level. Tech giant Apple is rumoured to be preparing to announce a $10 (£6.50) a month music streaming service at its WWDC conference for software developers on Monday. If the move [...]