F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Amazon Echo crams a voice assistant into a $199 Bluetooth speaker
After the Fire Phone became this year’s biggest hardware gaffe, Amazon felt it necessary to follow it up with the Echo — a speaker…
Firefox Hello brings accountless video chat to browsers, future smartphones
Firefox doesn’t get too much love here at Gearburn, even though it’s my favourite piece of software by a country mile. It’s especially sad…
DIY’er invents machine gun that folds and fires paper airplanes
An anonymous inventor who looks like Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski recently posted a YouTube video in which he demonstrates a self-made machine…
Samsung’s 60Ghz WiFi ‘removes the gap between theoretical and actual’, has 4.6Gbps transmission speeds
WiFi speeds are a bone of contention in my home. They just never reach the speeds I expect of them, especially when I wander…
