by Victoria Milne | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog
Pocket dials – or butt dials as our American friends call them – are doubtlessly annoying. But they are also becoming a strain on the emergency services. Google workers were called into investigate 911 calls in San Francisco, after the city’s Department of...
by Victoria Milne | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
If you despair at the media venom these days whenever the issue of refugees comes up, then help is at hand. Agency, a not-for-profit creative studio in Sydney, has launched Rehumanize, a Chrome extension that replaces terms like “queue jumpers”, “boat people” and...
by Victoria Milne | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog
Google Translate is a wonderfully useful tool. And yet we all know it has its limits. Well, maybe not all of us: The Register reports that a new website promoting the charms of South Moravia ended up in something of a pickle last week when it entrusted Google...
by Victoria Milne | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog
For children in the 1980s school trips typically involved a trip to a local factory or – if you were really lucky – a day trip to France, where you could stock up on bangers, beer and ninja stars. They were, as a whole, pretty dull, welcomed as an...
by Victoria Milne | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog
Apple and Google might be heated rivals in everything from maps to music but – if recent reports are to be believed – they are united in one very important characteristic: both have “failed” in the world of wearables. The Google Glass Explorer programme...