Two of the most famous start up companies which are biggest rivals are blaming each other. The quarrel of Apple and Google was considered the most fierce in the arena of technology, even that dispute is smaller in front of this bitter accusation.

Though the head offices of Uber technologies Inc. and Lyt Inc. are in the same metropolis, San Fransico but their resentment for each other is now prominent even in other cities. The companies are competing desperately to capture the market of transportation.

The conflict between them was already acute, but recently one claimed that the other one is striving hard to defeat the business.

On Monday Lyft has stated that since October 2013 almost 180  people who work in Uber has ordered and then abandoned. These tacts evidently had a negative impact on the conglomerate because it disturbed their service to a greater extent. Moreover, the company said that it is extremely a disgraceful act of the adversary to apply these techniques in order to slack down the business of Lyft.

Shortly after this accusation, Uber spokesman said that all these claims are untrue and Lyft is merely doing this to damage the reputation of the company. Furthermore, the spokesman said that even Uber has the similar complain with Lyft the driver and employees of Lyft has cancelled almost 13000 trips on Uber. The two companies did not pronounce the sources or evidences of these claims.

The chief purpose of this battle is to achieve the vital role of the future urban transportation. A large number of travelers now prefer Uber and Lyft for moving around rather than hiring a cab or going by bus or train.

Similar to the way it made customized chips for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Advanced Micro Devices is willing to make custom ARM server chips to suit the needs of the customer. During a presentation at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California, Sean White who is an engineer with the company explained that the company will consider customizing its 64-bit ARM server processors to meet specific customer needs, as the market for these new types of servers expands.

He further explained that ARM chips are mostly used in mobile devices but interest continues to grow in using the low power processors for Web-hosting and cloud applications.

The company also designs x86 chips on which it competes with the more dominant Intel. Intel is also already making custom processors based on the Xeon chips for large data centers like eBay. AMD increased its focus on custom chips since last year as evident decrease in the PC market became apparent. Because of the millions of gaming consoles being shipped, the company is already making strong custom chip revenues.

At Hot Chips, the company also shared the technical details of its 64-bit ARM processor called Opteron A1100, code named Seattle. It has two DDR3 and DDR4 memory channels and will have up to 4 MB L2 cache with two cores sharing 1MB. A new specification to the ARM chips is the ECC memory, which is essential for servers to correct data errors. Other features include, engines to encrypt and decrypt data, along with compression and decompression of data. The company has started shipping a reference board with the Seattle processor to pick customers that want to write and test applications.

The recent Perseid meteor shower was celebrated by Google by developing an interactive Doodle for the popular website. Google has a thing for special events like birthdays and celebrations. The virtual display includes pictures of meteors streaking across multiple outdoor scenes.

For those of who who are unaware, the Perseid meteor shower takes place once a year, each August. The show will peak on the evening of 12th August this year, although, according to NASA, the appearance of the supermoon will tamper with the show. Annual meteor showers occur when the Earth, during its orbit around the Sun, passes a trail of debris left by a comet. The Perseid meteor shower is a consequence of the orbit of the Comet Swift-Tutle around the Sun. This comet orbits the Sun every 133 years.

The Perseid meteor shower can be the most breathtaking of all annual displays. The shower appears to emanate from the constellation of Perseus, which is how it gets its name.
Sophia Diao designed the display for the meteor shower this year. It isn’t their first, but its supposed to be their most advanced.

Electronic Arts has introduced the EA Access subscription to all Xbox users globally on Monday.
The gaming service was initially available to select users and was announced late in July. On 29th July EA had announced the subscription for the EA Access to Xbox One offering gamers unlimited access to EA titles at a monthly subscription of $4.99 and an annual subscription of $29.99.

Furthermore, EA Access subscriptions will be available to purchase from local retail stores, Gamestop and on Amazon, for Xbox One gamers across Europe, as well as at EB Games in Canada. Looking for more? The game service would also offer Xbox One users 10% off on digital purchases of EA games and downloadable content for the console and in addition to that the expansion packs for game titles can be purchased at a 10% discounted price.

It must be noted that the Xbox One rival, Sony PlayStation 4 will not be getting the EA Access service for its customers. In fact, Sony has reportedly said that the nwe EA Access subscription for Xbox One does not provide ‘good value’ for its customers.

The Verge, reports that Motorola has sent invites to a launch, where it shall reveal to Smartphones, the moto 360 smartphone and possibly a headset. The invite itself reveals a headset icon, a Moto 360 smartwatch icon and two smartphone icons one indicated by the “G” and the other by the “X”.

The Moto X is the company’s flagship handset while the Moto G is a mid-range Motorola handset, both of these phones came out last year. So it is a possibility, in fact perhaps even a probability, that we may see replacements of both these phones announced at this event. It seems rather far fetched to think that the company will bring these phones to South Africa though. Since the last Motorola handsets in the country were the RAZR and the RAZR Maxx, and this was back in 2011/2012.