Highlights: Microsoft XBox One finally launches in SA, Boeing’s ‘space taxi’ includes seat for a tourist and Cars that drive themselves starting to chat with each other.
Visuals courtesy of Google Inc and Boeing.
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Microsoft XBox One finally launches in SA
Microsoft SA finally launched the X Box one gaming console in South Africa this week.
The multipurpose console launched in the United States earlier in 2014.
Under the X-box One’s clean finished casing are a host of features which enable one to use the console for gaming, social media, video calling via Skype an and video live steaming
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Boeing’s ‘space taxi’ includes seat for a tourist
Boeing Co’s (BA.N) proposal to develop a so-called space taxi for NASA astronauts includes a seat for paying tourists to fly to the International Space Station, the company’s program manager said on Wednesday, a first for a United States space program.
The $4.2 billion, five-year contract allows Boeing to sell rides to tourists, Boeing Commercial Crew Program Manager John Mulholland told Reuters, adding that the price would be competitive with what the Russian space agency now charges to fly tourists to the orbital outpost.
Boeing’s first test launch of the taxi is not expected until 2017.
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Read more technology stories from this week’s Tech Wrap: SABC Digital News Tech Wrap, 23 September 2014
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