Category: Technology
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Apple stocks take historic dive
There’s a first time for everything, but Apple’s recent firsts aren’t something to celebrate. For the first time in its existence, iPhone sales have fallen 16% year-over-year. Apple has also posted its first year-over-year decline in quarterly revenue in 13 years, as profit and revenue growth have slipped. The company’s quarterly profit fell 22.5% as…
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Apple launches new 12″ MacBook
Attention early adopters, teenage girls and all those obsessed with anything and everything rose gold, Apple has debuted a new 12″ MacBook that comes in (you guessed it) rose gold! Apple’s goal with the ultra-thin MacBook is to do the impossible, “engineer a full-size experience into the lightest and most compact Mac notebook ever.” The new laptop…
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Australia has the world’s most expensive internet
Confirming what most rural households know to be true, the World Economic Forum has rated Australia the lowest score for internet access affordability. According to the Forum, around four million Australians live in households without internet access. The high price of internet access disproportionately affects poor, elderly and Indigenous Australians. It is estimated that 57%…
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iPhone users are unlocking their phone how many times a day?
According to Apple, the average iPhone user unlocks their phone 80 times per day. That means that phones would be checked around 6-7 times an hour in a 12 hour day or in other words, once every 10 minutes. Analyst Ben Bajarin wrote, “Prior to Touch ID for example, many organisations required eight, and sometimes…
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Sydney to trial contactless transport payments
The NSW government has announced that passengers will be able to use their credit or debit cards to pay for transport from 2017. Much like the current Opal card, users will be able to tap on or off the train or bus easily but without having to top up. In NSW, approximately 92% of trips…
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Driverless cars in NSW soon
Transport Minister Andrew Constance said today that he expects that driverless cars will be on NSW roads within five years. Speaking to the Future of Transport summit, Constance said that driverless cars will be tested and developed in research laboratories in Western Sydney. An Innovation Centre test lab will be set up in Huntingwood where the…
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The Gloves That Are Revolutionising the Way We Communicate with the Hearing-Impaired
Two sophomore students at the University of Washington have been granted $10,000 as part of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. The two boys named Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor, studying business administration and aeronautics and astronautics engineering, respectively, won the prize with ‘SignAloud’, the gloves that will monitor hand movements in sign language and translate it into verbal…
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Islamic State Hackers Target Small Australian Businesses
It appears Islamic State has reached our shores in a very strange, unexpected way – through the websites of some small Australian business. The group calls themselves the United Cyber Caliphate, and is an amalgamation of three former groups named Caliphate Cyber Army, Sons Caliphate Army and the Kalashnikov Team. For some reason yet to be determined,…
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Facebook Messenger to introduce Chatbots
Mark Zuckerberg today announced that Facebook Messenger will be open to businesses and pages, allowing them to build customised chatbots for customers to interact with. You can do anything from ask a business chatbot a question to ordering products. “We think you should just be able to message a business the same way that you…
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Uber ordered to pay up $10 million
Uber has been ordered to pay at least $10 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading customers about the safety of its service. Foremost in this lawsuit was the accusation that Uber’s background checks on its drivers were not as thorough as advertised to customers. The conclusion of the lawsuit “sends…