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Updated: Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailers, news and rumours

The Force Awakens – Trailers and teasers Update: A brand new trailer for The Force Awakens has surfaced, an international cut which includes a bunch of previously unseen footage. Almost the whole gang get a look in this time – Finn, Rey, Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO and Han Solo – but still no Luke Skywalker. check it out below. YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdAUiyeJMFQ Continues below… There’s less than two months to go

Updated: Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailers, news and rumours

The Force Awakens – Trailers and teasers Update: A brand new trailer for The Force Awakens has surfaced, an international cut which includes a bunch of previously unseen footage. Almost the whole gang get a look in this time – Finn, Rey, Leia, Chewbacca, C-3PO and Han Solo – but still no Luke Skywalker. check it out below. YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdAUiyeJMFQ Continues below… There’s less than two months to go

Updated: Your Facebook News Feed is about to get more musical

Update: Facebook has now confirmed to techradar that an Android and desktop version will eventually be released – but there’s no time frame just yet. Facebook announced a new way to share your Number One jams on your iPhone today in the form of Music Stories. The new feature, built for the iOS Facebook application, will allow you to post songs and artists to your News Feed with an added

Updated: Your Facebook News Feed is about to get more musical

Update: Facebook has now confirmed to techradar that an Android and desktop version will eventually be released – but there’s no time frame just yet. Facebook announced a new way to share your Number One jams on your iPhone today in the form of Music Stories. The new feature, built for the iOS Facebook application, will allow you to post songs and artists to your News Feed with an added

Toyota plans U.S. artificial intelligence research with focus on self-driving cars

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it will set up a research and development company with a focus on artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, as competition to develop self-driving cars intensifies. The world’s top-selling automaker plans to invest $1 billion in R&D over the next five years in a departure from its cautious stance on automated drive. “I used to say, quite until recently, that we will go ahead with

Toyota plans U.S. artificial intelligence research with focus on self-driving cars

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it will set up a research and development company with a focus on artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, as competition to develop self-driving cars intensifies. The world’s top-selling automaker plans to invest $1 billion in R&D over the next five years in a departure from its cautious stance on automated drive. “I used to say, quite until recently, that we will go ahead with

Swedbank website down in hacker attack

Swedbank’s Swedish website has stopped working after a hacker attack and cannot be reached by its customers, a spokesman said on Friday. The attack means that customers cannot conduct online transactions or contact the bank through the Internet although mobile applications and payments continue to function, Swedbank spokesman Claes Warren said. The website was also hit by a hacker attack in October.

Swedbank website down in hacker attack

Swedbank’s Swedish website has stopped working after a hacker attack and cannot be reached by its customers, a spokesman said on Friday. The attack means that customers cannot conduct online transactions or contact the bank through the Internet although mobile applications and payments continue to function, Swedbank spokesman Claes Warren said. The website was also hit by a hacker attack in October.

Square Inc IPO to value company at up to $4.2 billion

(Reuters) – Mobile payments company Square Inc, headed by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, said it expects its initial public offering to price at between $11 and $13 per share, valuing the company up to $4.2 billion. The San Francisco-based company said in a regulatory filing on Friday it would sell 25.7 million Class A common shares, while selling stockholder Start Small Foundation, a charitable fund created by Dorsey,

Square Inc IPO to value company at up to $4.2 billion

(Reuters) – Mobile payments company Square Inc, headed by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, said it expects its initial public offering to price at between $11 and $13 per share, valuing the company up to $4.2 billion. The San Francisco-based company said in a regulatory filing on Friday it would sell 25.7 million Class A common shares, while selling stockholder Start Small Foundation, a charitable fund created by Dorsey,

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Mercedes Shows Us New Autonomous Concept Car

Mercedes-Benz unveiled its latest futuristic concept car at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Mercedez calls it the F015 Luxury in Motion. The completely autonomous, hydrogen-electric-plug-in hybrid vehicle is beyond just a car. It is a luxurious lounge on four wheels. The new autonomous concept car sports extensive connectivity features that are as of yet unseen in any automobile. The F015’s other features include web-connected touchscreens on the

Here’s how Apple plans to prevent bugs in future versions of iOS

Right now, only employees at Apple HQ and developers get the honour of testing pre-release version of iOS, but there's a change in the air. According to 9to5Mac, Apple is allegedly going to start giving select retail store employees access to upcoming versions of iOS, the thinking behind which is, obviously, the more eyes the better. Apple has started doing the same thing for it Max OS X releases, which

Professor Warns Young People Are ‘Lost Generation,’ Unable To Fix Things

Young people in Britain have become a lost generation who can no longer mend gadgets and appliances because they have grown up in a disposable world, the professor giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures has warned. Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong.

(AI) Robots Could Kill Us All In FIVE YEARS – Claims Elon Musk

Elon Musk claims robots could kill us all in FIVE YEARS in his latest internet post… then deletes it shortly after SpaceX and Tesla CEO has again warned of the dangers of AI robots In a comment he said he feared something 'dangerous happening' Musk says the rise of AI will be exponential and could spell disaster He cites a London-based company called Deepmind as an example of how rapidly artificial intelligence

Is This The Greatest Invention Since The Telephone?

Is This The Greatest Invention Since The Telephone? – A world where there are no more language barriers might not be too far away – online, at least. This comany has now released the beta version of its live translation tool, allowing people to speak to others in another language – even if they don’t know what they’re saying. The tool translates speech instantly, providing both text and spoken translations…

Why America Just Lost Its First Cyberwar

The most powerful supercomputers in the world – and what they do? We live in the computer age so it’s no surprise that a nation’s international importance is often measured on the number and the size of supercomputers it runs. After three wins in a row, it was no surprise that this supercomputer, was hailed once again as the world’s most powerful system…