South Africa’s creators, coders and founders are under pressure to do more with less. Whether you’re running a meme page from Mitchells Plain, debugging…
QR codes on your tombstone: how technology is changing death
Ah, QR codes: those strange little pixelated squares that appear on everything from cans to magazines. They may have been called “revolutionary”, but they’re…
Now that it’s got more than a billion to burn, what could Baidu buy?
Chinese search giant Baidu recently got a whole lot richer when it raised US$1.5-billion in its first ever bonds issue. And it’s going to…
Google Now gets Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year
Google Now has won Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year, putting it in the company of past winners such as the Large Hadron Collider,…
Disney’s Star Wars droid-lookalike robot plays catch, could let dads stay on couch
Whether inspired by its recent acquisition of Lucasfilm or not, Disney Research is developing a robot that can play catch, juggle and interact with…
