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MBZIRC Tournament Announces AED 5 Million Prize
The inaugural Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) is now in full swing, with 26 teams from 15 countries currently deploying their customized unmanned ground and aerial vehicles...
Qualcomm to Move Beyond Processors to Platforms
Reporting from San Diego, California, US: Qualcomm has announced new initiatives and changes to its strategies, at its Snapdragon 835 benchmarking event. At the event, which was held on March 15, 2017...
Smartwatch Market to Cross $10 Billion in 2017
The total value of smart watch shipments in 2017 will reach $10 billion, as shipments increase 18 per cent to 28.5 million units, according to Canalys. The research company said there will be further ...
Over 180,000 Apps to be Booted Off App Store
According to various news reports floating around the internet, close to 8 percent (187,000) of the approximately 2.4 million apps on the App Store may not work on iOS 11. Most of these apps have not ...
Legal Action to be Taken Over Yahoo Hacks
The US government is to issue indictments over security breaches which compromised millions of Yahoo users and had once threatened to derail the sale of the company’s web operations to Verizon. Accord...
Dubai Airports Launches “World’s Fastest” Free Wi-Fi Connection
Dubai Airports has launches the “world’s fastest” free wi-fi connection at an airport to millions of passengers that travel through DXB each month. Named WOW-Fi, the service provides inter...
Twitter Counter Hack Lets Nazi Spam Hijack Twitter Accounts
A hack on the third-party Twitter tool called Twitter Counter has resulted in Nazi spam on high-profile accounts. Twitter Counter has acknowledged that “our service was hacked” and that it...
Styx: Shards of Darkness Now Available for Consoles and PC
Styx: Shards of Darkness, the Stealth game from Cyanide Studio, is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Players will take control of agile goblin thief Styx, as he assassinates, sneaks and...
Intruders Launches on iOS and Android Devices
Developer Must Play Games has announced that its mobile Sci-Fi Tower Defense game, Intruders, has launched worldwide for iOS and Android devices. Unlike traditional Tower Defense games that feature fa...