Exploding star caught on camera

Exploding star caught on camera

The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave – what astronomers call the “shock breakout” – has been captured for the first time in the optical wavelength or visible light by NASA’s planet-hunter, the Kepler space telescope. An international...

Intel’s Andy Grove dies

Intel’s former CEO and chairman Andrew Grove passed away yesterday (21 March) at the age of 79. Present at Intel’s 1968 founding with Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Andy Grove became Intel’s president in 1979 and CEO in 1987. He served as chairman of...

iPhone SE hits small-screen sweet spot

Apple has launched its new iPhone SE, with a 4-inch screen. In a report on the phone, analysis company IHS believes Apple has a significant opportunity with the new smaller screen iPhone SE because the majority of iPhone models in active use are models with small...

Fujitsu designs 400Gbps optical transceiver

Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu R&D Center have announced that, to connect multiple data centres scattered within a metropolitan area with high capacity and at low cost, they have developed a basic architecture for digital-signal processing in optical...

Huge decline for MEA tablet sales

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market declined 8,8% year on year in the final quarter of 2015 to total 4,05-million units. According to the latest figures announced today by International Data Corporation (IDC) Middle East and Africa Quarterly Tablet Tracker,...

Source of African conflict not cut and dried

Some of Africa’s leaders are responsible for instability on the continent because they have failed to manage diversity in their societies. This is according to former Nigerian president, General Olusegun Obasanjo, who adds that, by the same token, outside...