We can all agree that Xbox’s name choices for consoled have been rather erratic in the past. It is kind of expected coming from a company that followed Windows 3 with Windows 95 and Windows Vista with Windows 7. Microsoft is a place where names for products are randomly pulled out of a hat, it seems.
Hardly a week goes by without a report announcing the end of work as we know it. In 2013, Oxford University academics Carl Frey and Michael Osborne were the first to capture this anxiety in a paper titled: “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?”.
We were expecting, back in 2015 with the announcement of the Resident Evil 2 remake, that Resident Evil 3 (the…
Phones, tablets and laptops are usually at the top of many teenage wish lists at Christmas. But parents often worry that giving their children a mobile phone might mean they never see them again. Will they stay locked away in their room for the whole Christmas break? It turns out that might not be such a bad thing.
The country may be hit by some ‘scheduled rolling blackouts’, but that doesn’t mean we should stop having fun. Although it may feel like we’re back in the stone age, and traffic seems to add hours to your commute, there are ways to make the dark times more comfortable for everyone.
You will laugh when I write this, but arguably the most innovative phone on the market is a clever little…
What we want is to make our lives more comfortable, more convenient, more glamorous and yet simpler. The luxury we relish from the benefits of a smart home far outweigh the costs, like the difference between the first smart phone and the Nokia 3310.
Across the world, the conversion of information into a digital format – also called “digitalisation” – has increased productivity in the public and private sectors. As a result, virtually every country in the world is working towards a digital economy.
Usually this time of the year there’s a whole lot of nothing going on, news-wise. 2019 may be something a…
Over the past decade, South Africa has seen a sharp increase in the number of people earning an income outside of formal employment. This is driven in part by our country’s high unemployment rate, which currently sits at 29.1%, and is also due to the global move towards a mobile workforce.