VR chair is ready to spin
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Friday, 14 October 2016 17:19

VR chair is ready to spin

Wheeeeeeh

Roto VR will show off its spinning chair at the VR and AR World event in London next week.

AMD teams up with Alibaba Cloud
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Friday, 14 October 2016 15:54

AMD teams up with Alibaba Cloud

There’s magic in those clouds

Chip firm AMD said it has struck an agreement with Alibaba Cloud to work together on research and cooperation on AMD Radeon Pro GPU technology.

Nvidia CEO gets into world’s top 10
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Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:22

Nvidia CEO gets into world’s top 10

Jen-Hsun makes the grade

A report in the Harvard Business Review lists the top 100 performers and CEOs in the world and Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia has made number six in the list, way ahead of most of the rest of the pack.

VR headsets are a “slow burn”
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Thursday, 13 October 2016 10:48

VR headsets are a “slow burn”

People go for cheap option

A report from research company Strategy Analytics said that by the end of this year only three percent of Brits will own a VR headset.

Appeals court overturns Samsung-Apple patent case
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That’s $120 million, thank you very much

The US court of appeals in Washington DC has re-instated a $120 million penalty against Samsung for patent infringement of Apple intellectual property.

USB Type-C to hit the ground running next year
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Wednesday, 05 October 2016 16:31

USB Type-C to hit the ground running next year

This year is just the beginning

A report said that 60 million smartphones with USB Type-C ports will ship this year. But adoption will really take off from next year on.

Armenian high tech startups show off their wares
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Video production and more

When I visited Armenia last week, I went to the second city, Gyumri, where there’s a interesting outfit called Gtech which plays host to several leading edge companies.

Armenian trade show is just the startup ticket
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Augmented reality and the rest

Last week I took the time to go to an IT trade show in Yerevan, Armenia and it almost brought tears to the eyes of a hardened cynical journalist. If you can believe that - and I know you won’t - here's some evidence to put you under my spell.

Auto makers complacent about IT rivals
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Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:41

Auto makers complacent about IT rivals

Turning everything upside down

When, and it is  a when rather than an if, autonomous driving cars really begin to tick, it’s going to turn the whole motoring industry upside down.

Nvidia’s Tesla is ahead of the automation pack
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Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:08

Nvidia’s Tesla is ahead of the automation pack

See me, hear me

The leather-clad CEO of Nvidia is set to clean up in the world of automation because of his earlier vision that foresight and vision will be everything and king.