September 2014

Follow us Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork With everything from refrigerators to thermostats to cars becoming more connected and complex, ARM unveils a chip with twice the processing power of its current champ. Your washing machine is getting brainier. Appliances and cars are gaining more intricate touchscreen displays, adding detailed controls and connecting to the Internet. Those features need […]

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork f you want to really change the world, Ray Ozzie has concluded, change the conversation. In this case, change it into a medium in which wireless speech becomes a durable, searchable part of the computer world. Mr. Ozzie, a well-regarded software engineer who in 2010 resigned as Microsoft’s chief software architect,

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Earlier this year, several producers at CNN received an alert from a new digital news gathering tool that they were testing: A teenager in Los Angeles had posted a tweet saying that the pop music heartthrob Justin Bieber had been arrested. CNN’s Los Angeles bureau followed up on the tip by

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The hubs of advanced manufacturing will be the economic drivers of the future because innovation increasingly depends on production expertise. Visitors to the Crosspointe Rolls-Royce facility in Prince George County, Virginia, have to don safety glasses and steel-tipped shoes, just as they would at any traditional factory. But then things

Follow us on Twitter @GoAfricaNetwork Encryption has been optional since 2011, but Android L, due out later this year, will include activation procedures for automatic encryption. The next version of Android will for the first time encrypt data by default, Google confirmed Thursday, preventing both thieves and law enforcement officials from gaining access to personal information

Follow us on Twitter @GoAfricaNetwork The world of 3D printing on Wednesday welcomed an unexpected new player as rotary tool specialist Dremel announced it will be releasing a consumer-grade 3D printer of its own next month. Dremel’s 3D Idea Builder is an enclosed printer with a build area of 230 x 150 x 140 mm (9 x 5.9 x 5.5