On Tuesday this week, the Royal Navy ship HMS Mersey launched something unusual from its gun deck off England's southern coast — a cheap drone made using a 3D printer. … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, Bigger than Expected
The dimensions of the upcoming phablet from Samsung, the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, have been leaked and its size is quite surprising, to say the least. … [Read more...]
Nairobi Locks Down as Obama Arrives for Kenya Visit
In this normally bustling, chaotic metropolis, the streets are unusually quiet. No groups of young men hang on corners, pedestrians are absent, beggars moved elsewhere. … [Read more...]
Street Fighter 5 Beta Servers Down
Street Fighter 5 is having a run of good luck today with the launch of its beta test: it immediately ran into problems. How is that good luck? Well, it’s a lot better to encounter issues now than when the game goes properly live. Your frustration now may result in a much smoother launch day experience. … [Read more...]
OPIC and Microsoft Discuss Financing with Kenya’s Mawingu Networks
OPIC’s President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield is in Nairobi for the 2015 Global Entrepreneur Summit, and signed the OPIC mandate today alongside Antony Cook, Microsoft’s Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs for the Middle East and Africa, who served as a witness to the mandate between OPIC and Mawingu. … [Read more...]
Amazon’s Earnings Blow Wall Street Away
Amazon.com Inc. shares are on fire this morning, up more than 20% to $580.57 in the first minutes of trading after the company posted a surprising second-quarter profit of $92 million. Wall Street seems excited not only about that profit, but about the promising results at Amazon Web Services and the prospects for its Prime service to boost sales. … [Read more...]
Twitter Could Stop a Terrorist Attack Near You ?
Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials. … [Read more...]
More Business Units Cisco Is Thinking of Axing
Cisco's incoming CEO Chuck Robbins may be unrolling more acquisitions than just the TV set-top business, bought for $6.9 billion in 2005 and sold for $600 million on Thursday. … [Read more...]
Bounty Hunter ‘Dog’ Chapman: El Chapo Is Out of His League
TV bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman knows there are some fugitives even he can’t bring to justice. The star of CMT’s Dog and Beth: On The Hunt admits he probably would not be able to capture escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — and doesn’t even plan to try. … [Read more...]
Mammoths Killed by Climate Change
Studies have shown time and again that humans are pretty effective at driving other animals to extinction — but a new study published in Science this week suggests that when it comes to some species, that blame might have been misplaced. … [Read more...]