How Facebook games normalized microtransactions
Decking out your favorite League of Legends champion with the latest skin or buying a Fortnite dance emote is a seen as perfectly normal nowadays. Microtransactions, be they cosmetic or…
A year of small screens and couch-borne escapism
The bar set for 2021 is extremely low — ankle-high. With a mysterious viral outbreak hitting China and fires sweeping the southern hemisphere, 2020 started off poorly. It ended with…
Say Aloha to remote music playing with high sound quality and without delays
The community of people worldwide with a passion for audio and music is diverse and cuts across cultures and borders. With the pandemic, playing music together was a joy taken…
How your smart home can turn dumb without warning
Automating your home and being able to turn on the lights, start vacuuming, or make coffee with a simple voice command can certainly make you feel like you’re living in…
Young Malians invent an artificial respirator, a chatbot and a collar to monitor cattle
Youssouf Sall works on so many projects at the same time that he has to sleep in his garage every other night. “Fortunately, my wife is understanding,” he laughs. The…
Cognitive and Cloud Computing
A simple explanation for cloud computing would be not storing data, applications and information on local hard disk or local servers, but storing it away from our physical location. When…
Xiaomi is ready to take over the world
Xiaomi has rapidly become one of the most popular smartphone companies in the world. There are two main reasons for this. The first is based on the development of attractively…
5G needs startups to grow globally
Here’s what Jasmeet Singh Sethi who leads Ericsson’s ConsumerLab told us about the internal startup program 5G is a platform for innovation and the players across the ecosystem need to…
AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning – Explained
Introduction “Deep Learning” applications are nowadays the cutting edge branch of “machine learning”, the broader scientific branch of “artificial intelligence” that deals with how a computer system can learn. Companies…
Technology of The Future – Virtual Reality
Introduction and Definitions Virtual reality is the creation of a fantasy or copy of the real world, for the purpose of entertainment, simulation, or even safe education in various fields…