South East Asia

K-Glass: Korea’s Answer to Google Glass
March 10, 2014

07 March 2014 Researchers at South Korea’s KAIST university have unveiled the newest innovation in wearable devices: K-Glass, which is similar to Google Glass. K-Glass comes with a special chip that expands the pool of objects the device can properly recognize without relying on barcodes or...

International
Alibaba’s Taobao Bans Bitcoin
January 08, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese eCommerce conglomerate, has banned the sale of Bitcoin on its Taobao Marketplace online platform. Bloomberg News reported that Bitcoin sales and other cryptocurrencies will be restricted beginning on Jan. 14. Mining hardware and software will also be barred from Taobao. An Alibaba...