iPhone 6S and 6S Plus UK release date and pre-order sales: Apple’s new flagship iPhone is already the UK’s second most popular phone – before hitting the stores September 24, 2015 Apple’s new iPhone is landing in UK stores tomorrow. But even before going on sale, it’s become the second most popular phone in the country, new figures show. Based on pre-orders alone, Apple’s new iPhone is outstripping Samsung’s latest flagship phone, Galaxy S6. Released earlier this year, the Korean tech giant’s phone has been pushed [...]
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus UK relase date approaches and people are already queuing at Apple Stores at Regent Street and Covent Garden September 24, 2015 People are already forming orderly queues to get their hands on Apple's new iPhone 6s. With tents, ponchos, cushions and a book to keep them occupied, several eager beavers have already pitched a spot outside London's Apple Shops at Regent Street and Covent Garden. The new iPhone 6s and 6s plus hits stores on Friday [...]
iOS 9 problems: Apple issues first update to fix bug that left iPads and iPhones paralysed September 24, 2015 A week after releasing iOS 9 to iPhone and iPad users, Apple has rolled out the first bug fix update to the operating system. The iOS 9 launch was plagued by technical glitches that kept it from being the happy occasion it should have been for Apple users, but the update promises to fix a [...]
How fast does New Horizons fly? This is what it looks like to look out of the window of the space probe September 24, 2015 The New Horizons space probe is the fastest mankind has launched. But just how fast is that? Recently making headlines as it whipped past Pluto giving us stellar images of the dwarf planet, it’s now hurtling through space at a speed nearing 36,000 miles per hour. But such eye-watering speeds are beyond most of us [...]
Breaking down vertical banking silos: Our outdated payments industry should look to Apple and BMW’s supply chains September 24, 2015 We depend on payments as the underpinning fabric of almost every aspect of cross border commerce. Yet the payments industry is still fundamentally built on a model which suited the needs of a world circa fifty years ago, rather than the dynamic, agile, hyper-connected world of 2015. The problem behind this is that individual financial [...]
London can come out on top in the era of job-killing robots September 23, 2015 Scary, scary robots. If you believe the hype, robots are coming for your job, your society and everything you hold dear. A widely publicised report argued that 35 per cent of jobs in the UK could be destroyed by automation and computerisation (which is what “robots” have come to mean in the shorthand of [...]
Wednesday is the day when we’re glummest on Twitter – and work week happiness peaks on a Friday September 23, 2015 Feeling blue today? Wednesday is when we’re feeling most negative, according to analysis of emotions expressed on social media. But don't worry, we'll soon perk right back up again. Work week happiness peaks on a Friday, you’ll be unsurprised to hear – but it can’t come close to the joy we feel when the weekend [...]
Rise of sex robots: Prepare yourself for the inevitable September 23, 2015 Who’s the sexiest robot you know? Obviously the answer is C-3PO. But think harder. Is there a robot in the world that you could fall in love with? Could you bring a replicant home to meet your parents? What about the robot that runs around screaming “danger Will Robinson”, could he support your family? The [...]
Review: Destiny The Taken King September 23, 2015 Destiny: The Taken King Rating: ★★★★☆ Destiny, the space-based multiplayer shooter that’s acted as a digital narcotic to 20m feverish players, has been easier to cut down on in recent weeks. Most committed Guardians – as players are known – finished the last expansion pack, House of Wolves, months ago, leaving them with the same handful [...]
Game review: FIFA 16 September 23, 2015 EA’s annual FIFA games tend to come in two flavours: the important milestones that introduce a wealth of new gameplay mechanics, and the routine ones that simply tweak a few things here and there and mainly exist to keep the yearly tradition going. FIFA 16 falls squarely in the latter category. On the pitch, not [...]