This startup wants to kill off the qwerty keyboard with the keyless Tap Strap and just the movement of your fingers May 12, 2016 The poor old keyboard has barely changed in more than a century. Despite the move from typewriter to computer and more recently screen, the qwerty keyboard still reigns supreme. Now, one startup wants to disrupt everything we think we know about typing – and it will liberate you from your keyboard. In fact, Tap has no keys at all, and [...]
Do we really need Google’s working women emojis? May 12, 2016 What has the world come to? This week Google announced it’s pushing for more emojis of professional women, having submitted 13 new ideas that highlight the diversity of women’s careers to the Unicode Consortium. Frankly, the part that most caught my attention was not the emojis but the existence of a Unicode Consortium. That’s real [...]
Battleborn review: An unholy union of Borderlands’ goofball run-and-gun sandbox style and Street Fighter’s colourful character roster May 12, 2016 Fans of the Borderlands series have eagerly awaited the next big title from 2K since 2014. I speak from experience. So when Battleborn appeared to be an unholy union of Borderlands’ goofball run-and-gun sandbox style and Street Fighter’s colourful character roster… Well, I won’t lie, I squeaked with excitement. A Gorillaz-esque exposition sequence explains that [...]
Five signs it’s time to start seriously investing in digital skills May 12, 2016 As a manager or business owner, when should I take steps to improve the digital know how in my organisation? It’s a crucial question that has crossed the mind of nearly every business leader as they struggle to keep up with new technology, security concerns and employees’ desire to keep learning. What are the clues or [...]
Private equity firms reportedly circling O2 after Three merger blocked May 12, 2016 Top private equity firms are circling O2 after Brussels yesterday blocked a billion pound takeover of the mobile network by Three owner Hutchison, according to reports. Apax Partners, CVC Capital and KKR are among firms to have held preliminary talks exploring a potential bid for Telefonica's O2, Sky reports. They join Liberty Global, the owner of Virgin Media [...]
Google says payday loans are just as bad as drugs and guns May 12, 2016 Payday loans are as bad as drugs, weapons and counterfeit goods, Google has said, adding them to its list of items banned from being advertised on its search engine. Lenders offering payday loans will be banned from advertising anywhere on Google across the globe, the search giant has said, signalling another nail in the coffin [...]
Barclays rules out Android Pay, going it alone with own mobile pay app May 12, 2016 Barclays is going it alone when it comes to mobile pay, rolling out its own contactless payment app on Android to all its customers, eschewing Google's own soon to launch Android Pay service. The bank's customers will be able to pay with just a swipe of their debit card from June with Barclays' Contactless Mobile [...]
How new London mayor Sadiq Khan can solve London’s startup funding crisis May 12, 2016 I would like to congratulate Sadiq Khan on becoming London’s new mayor and it is encouraging that he claims he will be “the most pro-business mayor London has ever had”. There is a booming startup scene in the capital which, if supported, will benefit our City for generations to come. But success is by no [...]
SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule returns to planet Earth containing results and cargo from International Space Station May 11, 2016 A SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, containing experiment results and cargo from the International Space Station (ISS). The returned capsule is the first to make it safely back to Earth since a launch accident in June 2015 in which another Dragon capsule was destroyed. SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, resumed [...]
Leica M-D review: The $6,000 digital camera with no screen, no autofocus and no video recording May 11, 2016 Once, while striding purposefully to see a brand new animal at the zoo, I slipped on a frozen puddle and shattered the LCD screen of my DSLR. I could no longer review the pictures I’d taken or fiddle about with menus, but it was otherwise a perfectly functional camera. If anything, it was made somehow [...]