Friday, 12 February 2016

The tech giving people power to deal with disability


Man wearing digital gloveImage copyrightdbGLOVE
Image captionTech like this could help people who are deaf and blind operate smartphones and computers

Worldwide, around a billion people have a disability, says the World Health Organisation.

Thursday, 4 February 2016

GPS error caused '12 hours of problems' for companies

System engineers were 'called out of bed' over the problemsImage copyrightThinkstock
Image captionSystem engineers were "called out of bed" over the problems
Several companies were hit by hours of system warnings after GPS satellites broadcast the wrong time, according to time-monitoring company Chronos.