This year, Apple is supporting the annual Hour of Code program by using all of its 468 stores all over the world as temporary classrooms teaching coding. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, hopes to create a spark from this project among millions of children.
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Japan's Womenomics Goals Downgraded
Despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "womenomics" plan to encourage more Japanese women in the workforce, the country doesn't seem to want to follow it. Japan's gender equality bureau has reduced its goal of hiring women in senior positions from 30% to 7% and leadership positions in the private sector to 15% by 2020.
Australia's Huge $1.1 billion Innovation Fund to Help Startups and STEM
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, has announced a huge investment of $1.1 billion innovation fund to help startups and STEM. The National Innovation and Science Agenda, announced at Australia's science body in Canberra CSIRO on Monday, has been labeled as an "ideas boom" to move Australia forward after the "mining boom."
AT&T's GigaPower Gigabit-Speed Fiber Service to be Introduced to 38 Cities
Imagine downloading a HD movie in less than 36 seconds. AT&T has announced that they will be expanding their gigabit-speed fiber Internet service, called GigaPower, to 38 more cities.
C-17 Globemaster and C-130J Super Hercules: Heroic Machines in Chennai Floods
Due to the heavy flooding in Chennai, India, there was a great necessity for assistance in getting locals out of the affected areas. The C-17 Globemaster and the C-130J Super Hercules answered their cries of help.
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A Philippine judge clarified Saturday that the ruling of his court doesn't stop operations of ride-sharing companies, but only suspend the application of permits by prospective drivers.
Hong Kong's international financial hub is reeling under pressure as the world's largest and second largest economies are impacting it more in a negative way.
Bugatti partnered with Wisconsin-based Palmer Johnson to develop an open-superyacht called Niniette, which costs $2.1 million to $3.5 million.
On Thursday, the new market forecast said that global smartphone sales growth will cool to single digits for the first time amid the China's economic slowdown. IDC predicted the 9.8% increase in global smartphones shipment to a total of 1.43 billion units. Android dominates the market share with 81.2% with Apple holding only 15.8%.
A news came into hearing from multiple sources that Apple has decided to introduce its next smartphone series, iPhone 6c on mid of 2016. The price of iPhone 6c is quite low, which is from $400 to $500. It is expected to have camera properties of that of iPhone 5s, with latest a9 chip and much.
Teva pharmaceuticals which is said to be the world's largest generic drug maker has joined hands with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co, for a definitive agreement to sell generic drugs in Japan.
A team at the University of Washington has published a study showing that it seems possible for robots to learn tasks and goals by watching and imitating human actions.
Armored vehicle maker INKAS unveiled an armored version of Mercedes-Maybach S600 luxury sedan. The armored S600 offers a bulletproof body that meets European CEN 1063 BR7 standards. The armored Maybach S600 will be on sale next year and priced at $500,000.
Ford recalls 450,000 Fusion, Mercury Milan midsize cars that the gasoline tanks possible can leak fuel.
