Mar 25, 2013
Cars are becoming smarter, with apps now embedded in vehicles which recognise their owners’ voices. A new report from Juniper Research has found that advancements in entertainment head-units and higher smartphone penetration will result in app capability reaching a...
Mar 22, 2013
Scientists have captured pictures of what they believe the universe looked like shortly after the “big bang”. Acquired by ESA’s Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background is thought to be the relic radiation from the...
Mar 20, 2013
A great deal has changed since The Economist labelled Africa as “the Hopeless Continent” 10 years ago. Over the past decade, six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing countries were African; emerging economies in the East and West of Africa indicate a 6% to 7% economic...
Mar 19, 2013
More than two-thirds of South Africans surveyed by the 2012 Cisco Connected World Technology Report (CCWTR) are relying on Internet retail sites to do their shopping. The study also shows that: * 59% will share their e-mail address to get discounts and sales notices;...
Mar 18, 2013
Rising above the present location of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the US, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the rover. This layered mound, also called Aeolis Mons, in the centre of Gale Crater...
Mar 15, 2013
Scientists believe they have discovered the elusive Higgs boson, or “God particle”. Data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which last July was tentatively thought to indicate the existence of the Higgs boson, has now been further analysed with much more...
