More than just a giant smartphone: Pulse Smart Hubs offer maps, phone calls and defibrillators alongside the ads
The London-based Urban Innovation Company is now installing up to 30 Pulse Smart Hubs on the streets of Belfast.
The London-based Urban Innovation Company is now installing up to 30 Pulse Smart Hubs on the streets of Belfast.
The most configurable "power user" web browser just got a lot better with the launch of version 2.0. The main attraction is synchronisation with end-to-end encryption, but long-term users may also enjoy dramatically faster start-up speeds.
Amazon is the second American company, after Apple, to be worth a trillion dollars. So which tech company will be the third to reach the milestone?
SmartFrame Technologies Ltd has launched a system for publishing and monetizing images while making them harder to steal than standard jpegs. Some photographers are already using the system but it could have wider appeal for advertising, marketing and corporate use.
Autonomous vehicles are going to change the world in many ways you may not expect, just as the horseless carriage did. An authoritative new book has the details...
Gatwick Airport will use self-driving cars that use Oxbotica's LiDAR-based Selenium system, but only "airside". Airline passengers won't encounter them unless, after successful trials, the system is fitted to transportation buses.
Plug one end of InnSpire's InnCable into an Ethernet socket, the other end into a TV set's HDMI port, and you have a very neat Android set-top box. It's aimed at the hotel industry, but the company is already discussing residential and other applications.
The new multi-process Firefox 54 is great, but you have to remove incompatible extensions to get it to work. One of mine was an add-on to save web pages as single files, but luckily there are ways to save MHTML files using other browsers
If your smart wallet is lost or stolen, you can locate or track it with a smartphone. That's a cool idea, and it has attracted several crowd-funded projects such as Cashew, Ekster, SmartWallet, Walli, Wallor and Woolet. However, small, standalone trackers like TrackR's may do the job cheaper, and they're less risky purchases.
Following the successful launch of the Vivaldi browser, CEO and co-founder Jon von Tetzchner has been touring Europe to meet the press and users to get feedback and explore plans for the future