We found out today that the world has lost one of our most important heroes: Neil Armstrong. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first human being to ever step foot on the moon. It’s something that not many people can fathom or process, because of its magnitude. As we think about how...
Welcome to the latest instalment of Last Week in Asia, our roundup of the key stories and developments from across Asia’s growing technology and Internet spaces. Disclaimer from the start, you’ll find no mention of the Apple-Samsung US case here. Visit our final verdict post for more, while details of the Korean court ruling that found...
Editor’s note: Avi Charkham is Head of Product Design @ lool ventures, an early stage, value-add venture capital firm based in Israel and the incubators of MyPermissions personal cloud security service. Do you know how many apps access your personal information on Facebook? Check your Facebook apps permissions and get ready for a surprise. In fact,...
SAP is doing a series of startup forums that signal a significant change in the company. It’s a move unlike any we see from the likes of HP, Oracle or IBM. SAP is making a play as a platform company. It is building a developer community and backing it up with a special $155...
Historically there’s been a pretty high barrier to entry when it comes to making electronic music. The standard tools used to create beats are software programs things like Traktor and Ableton Live, desktop programs aimed at professional music producers that have tons of complicated features (and pricetags that start in the hundreds of dollars.)...
It’s been just eight weeks since Zimride’s ride-sharing service, Lyft, was launched in beta, providing San Francisco users a low-cost alternative to cabs and Ubers. Since then, the service has grown a tremendous amount: It’s got more than 100 drivers operating in the area, who together are taking hundreds of riders a day. Lyft...
Neil Armstrong, the American astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon, has died at 82. In a 1970 interview with BBC Television, months after he returned from the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong recounted his experience on the moon, describing its surface and the experience in vivid detail. To close, the...
Neil Armstrong, the American astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon, has died at 82. In a 1970 interview with BBC Television, months after he returned from the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong recounted his experience on the moon, describing its surface and the experience in vivid detail. To close, the...
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82. For young technology followers, Armstrong’s name may seem a little distant. But his journey to the moon in 1969 inspired many of our best and brightest to take giant leaps and push mankind forward. He came to...
NASA CINCINNATI (AP) — Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles...