Category: Technology
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Sticky car hoods – Google’s new safety feature
Google has a tendency to be at the forefront of technological advances in almost any field, and with the release of their self-driving cars, they’ve made their debut into the automobile industry. The technology is already being retrofitted into other cars to give them a self driving ability, but Google hopes to reveal their own…
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Hire a Tesla Model S for a day
You can now hire a Tesla. Yep, that’s right folks you can hire the revolutionary Tesla Model S for travel between Sydney and Canberra as well as hire it for the day in Sydney. According to Gizmodo the luxury electric car costs about $95,000 for the 60kWh and $200,000 for the fully-optioned, performance-spec 85kWh. If that’s…
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Did an Aussie create Bitcoin?
The digital currency, Bitcoin, has been in the news lately with a Brisbane based engineer and computer scientist named Craig Wright claiming he created the payment network under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. His statements have come under much scrutiny, with many people either coming out in support of him or denying that he is truly…
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Upward of 200 million emails hacked
On Wednesday this week, a Wisconsin security firm called Hold Security reported they had obtained a cache of information from Russian hackers regarding emails and passwords. The firm originally uncovered the hacker bragging in online forums about the large amount of data he was going to sell, claiming to have over 1 billion email addresses…
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ANZ is the first Australian bank to switch on Apple Pay
ANZ has become the first bank to support Apple Pay meaning those with an ANZ Visa card can make payments using their iPhone. Users will be able to register their cards and use their iPhones or Apple Watches to pays for goods on payment terminals that support tap and pay. They’ll also be able to use…
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Twitter’s earnings disappoint
Twitter has posted its first quarter earnings and they are noticeably less than the analysts predicted. The company earned $595 million, which fell far short of the $607.8 million expected by industry analysts. Twitter showed a net loss for the quarter of $80 million. Although the company did grow its earnings by 36%, the disappointing…
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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…