With the rise of food delivery services such as Uber Eats and PickMe Food, we now have the luxury of ordering food and having it delivered right to our doorstep. But, while the food arrives all neat and looks appetizing, do you really know in what state it was prepared? Recently, the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) introduced a set ...
Ever since Huawei lost access to Google and Android and then gained it back, things haven’t quite been the same. Last Friday, at the Huawei Developer Conference, Huawei also announced its own operating system. Called Hongmeng OS in China, it would be known globally as Harmony OS. But here’s the thing. It’s not for smartphones. At least, not yet. ...
Three Million Dollars. That’s how much Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf walked away with after being crowned champion at the recently concluded Fortnite World Cup Solo Finals. Held in New York City, the event drew almost 15,000 people to New York’s Arthur Ashe tennis center. He’s not the only one though. The Fortnite World Cup also saw competitions for pairs, well-known ...
Following a few silent months, Spike Colombo kicked off once again. At the July edition, Mayun Kaluthantri and Shavin Peiries from Very Bad Wizards took the spotlight. The theme for the evening was Design Sprint. What’s a design sprint? This is a five-day process that aims to answer critical business questions via design, prototyping and testing ideas with customers. ...
The Computer Science Students’ Community of the University of Ruhuna held their second hackathon series, BattleCode on the 27th of July. The inaugural Virtual Robotics Hackathon organized by one of the southernmost community of Sri Lankan tech enthusiast students was conducted as an inter-university competition. The community which previously inaugurated Rush Coder, a 24-hour inner-university hackathon, last year as ...
Ever since it launched in 2015, PickMe has revolutionized the way we travel. At the press of a button, we can hail tuks, minis, sedans and even lorries to do our bidding. Now, almost 4 years later, their journey achieved yet another significant milestone. PickMe recently became one of Google Cloud’s key clients in South Asia. But what does ...
When you think Dell, your thoughts would immediately go to their popular laptops, or maybe even their desktops. The world-renown company may be a consumer brand. But it’s also a well-known global enterprise solutions provider as well. At the recently held Dell Technologies Symposium 2019 Colombo, the company announced the launch of Dell Technologies Cloud and Unified Workspaces, along ...
According to a new report, Huawei’s Hongmeng OS might be unveiled sometime later this week. In case you didn’t know, Hongxing OS is Huawei’s alternative operating system. Global Times China, from where the report comes, goes on to say that Hongmeng OS might be unveiled at Huawei’s developer conference. Huawei’s Developer Conference might just give the first look at ...
From an eSports championship to a taxi-hailing service, SLT (Sri Lanka Telecom) has been testing the water in a number of different fields. The latest one is website creation. An initiative by SLT Digital Info Services, WEB4U is an online platform offering webpage and website setup at a price point that is affordable for SMEs on a tight budget. ...
When launched in October 2016, the Nintendo Switch shipped almost 3 million devices within its first month. Within a year, it sold almost 14 million units surpassing the total lifetime sales of the Nintendo Wii U. As of December 2018, more than 32 million units have been sold worldwide. Because of its hybrid design, the Nintendo Switch can be ...
The Google Pixel 4 is the eagerly anticipated flagship from Google. Following the Google Pixel 3 lineup, the Google Pixel 4 is expected to have all the bells and whistles that a flagship from Google would usually have. Now we have a look at two brand few features that are definitely likely to cause a stir. The Google Pixel ...
It’s been a while since we wrote about Internet Payment Gateways in Sri Lanka. Well, four years to be exact. So how have things changed since then? Without further ado, here’s what you need to know. It’s still a bank’s best-kept secret It’s 2019. But somehow, it feels like the Sri Lankan banks are at least a decade behind. ...
“Why I Built This” is a series by HomeTree Coworking and Venture Frontier Lanka that highlights some of the best and brightest in Sri Lanka’s industries. The second episode of “Why I Built This” featured Manju Gunawardana. Manju started off by talking a bit about himself. A senior scientist and board member at the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology, ...
Huawei. It’s a name most of us have come to know for their feature-packed range of smartphones. Whether it’s budget, midrange, or premium, their smartphones have gained a reputation for offering some of the best around. However, the past couple of months have been challenging for the tech giant with the US Department of Commerce blacklisting Huawei. The series ...
HUTCH Sri Lanka announced that the company has deployed Sri Lanka’s first fully-fledged Network Function Virtualization (NFV) core based network. That’s certainly a mouthful. Here’s a breakdown and what it means exactly. What’s NFV? NFV can be referred to as a means of incorporating cloud and virtualization technologies to enable faster development of network services. It includes decoupling network ...
Headphones and earphones have become a staple part of our day-to-day lives. Whether it’s for listening to music, recording songs in a studio or even trying to figure out the enemy’s exact location to pull of that last kill, we all use either a headset, headphones or earphones. In case you didn’t know, the difference between headsets and headphones ...
Something quite interesting happened a few days ago. The Colombo Municipal Council partnered with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to launch Sri Lanka’s first-ever car-free day. CarFreeCMB as the event would be called, would take place on the 14th of July from 6 am to 12 noon. During this time, certain streets in Colombo would be ...
In an interesting turn of events, Apple is reportedly planning to manufacture some of its high-end iPhones in India. Yes, you read that right. Apple’s iPhone XS and the iPhone XR will be manufactured by Foxconn in India. But that’s not all. These devices are also likely to be available for purchase from just next month. In addition, because ...
What if you could have a fast fluid browsing experience while also staying safe and secure with an inbuilt ad-blocker? Well, this browser offers a brave way to do that (pun intended). Say Hello to the Brave Browser. What exactly is Brave? Brave aims to be the most private, secure and fastest browser availableJust like any other web browser, ...
According to security firm Check Point, a malware codenamed, “Agent Smith” has infected more than 25 million Android devices. The malware replaces legitimate installed apps on devices with malicious versions. Agent Smith hacks apps and displays more ads/takes credit for the ads on display, essentially profiting off fraudulent views. But Check Point notes that it “could easily be used ...
