40 years of Apple: This video makes you realise quite how much Apple has accomplished since it was founded April 1, 2016 It's Apple's 40th birthday today – and to mark the occasion, the company was flying the Jolly Roger above its headquarters in California this morning. That's based on founder Steve Jobs' observation, in 1983, that "it's better be a pirate than join the navy" – after which the team designing the Macintosh flew the pirate [...]
Amazon and Microsoft in talks to park in self-driving car space with cloud computing April 1, 2016 Amazon and Microsoft are in discussions to provide cloud computing to a digital mapping business owned by a group making self-driving cars. BMW, Audi and Daimler acquired Here Maps from Nokia for €2.8bn (£1.97bn) last year. Read more: Audi, BMW and Daimler deal accelerates driverless car plans Reuters has reported that the technology companies are in talks [...]
Booking.com co-founder among investors as workforce management startup Planday raises $14m and plans US expansion March 31, 2016 Planday, a workforce management startup for shift-based businesses, has raised $14m (£9.7m) in its second funding round. The round was led by Idinvest and also included angel investor Arthur Kosten, a co-founder of Booking.com. Read more: London legal tech startup raises £1.7m in funding round Planday received $3.75m in its first funding round, in 2014, and received [...]
Elon Musk to unveil new Tesla: Here’s everything you need to know about the Model 3 March 31, 2016 Tesla may be among the coolest marques around at the moment, but with a Model S priced at just shy of £50,000, for the majority of petrol (er, lithium?) heads, the brand has been pretty out of reach thus far. But that's all about to change, with the launch of the Model 3, set to take place [...]
Tay, Microsoft’s racist chatbot, made a tired and emotional return last night March 31, 2016 The robots are already turning against humanity – although for now, they're sticking to causing red faces. Tay, an artificial intelligence chatbot on Twitter which Microsoft was forced to shut down last week after it started, among other things, spouting racist diatribes and denying the holocaust, made an ignominious return last night. After a silence lasting almost a week, [...]
London has the worst 4G download speeds – but these are the best and worst networks March 31, 2016 Ever feel like it's taking forever to download the latest episode of your favourite TV show to catch up with on the way to work? Londoner's in fact suffer the worst download speeds of five major cities in the UK tested for 4G mobile network performance by Ofcom. Read more: One simple map showing UK's mobile coverage by poscode Residents of the [...]
iPhone SE review: Does Apple’s miniaturised phone live up to the hype or does size really matter? Here’s our day one verdict March 30, 2016 I feel like a giant. I feel like a god. My fingers feel as long and slender as a concert pianist’s. My thumbs reach right to the top corner of my phone screen for the first time in years. I feel alive. Apple today releases the iPhone SE, which looks almost identical to 2013’s diminutive iPhone [...]
Apple’s iPhone SE is the world’s best little phone March 30, 2016 Apple today releases the iPhone SE, which looks almost identical to 2013’s diminutive iPhone 5, with its 4” screen (how tiny!) and chamfered edges. Only little details like the gleaming Apple logo, matt edges and duel flash allow you to tell them apart by sight alone. It’s a sign that the Cult of Big may [...]
Gett is buying black cab firm Radio Taxis March 30, 2016 On-demand black cab app Gett is buying up a long-established black cab fleet, upping its stake in the battle for London's roads. Gett has made an all-cash offer for Radio Taxis owner Mountview House Group. It's understood to be a multi-million pound deal, however, the terms and value have not been disclosed. "Radio Taxis has a long, proud history and we [...]
The Sharp Foxconn deal is go – here’s four things you need to know about two major Apple iPhone suppliers uniting March 30, 2016 The Foxconn Sharp deal has been as on-again off-again as Elon Musk's marriage – but the deed is finally done after much back and forth, finally uniting two of Apple's major suppliers. 1. The deal Hon Hai Precision, or Foxconn as it's more widely known, will pay 389bn yen (£2.4bn) for a 66 per cent stake in Sharp. That amount is [...]