A rather bizarre waste of police resources has been captured on video and stuffed online, after a road user spotted a low-speed police escort being given to mobility scooter. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"I didn't get charged with anything in the end. It was when I was young and stupid and some friends were doing graffiti and I happened to be a lookout,..." More »
PayPal's location-based payment system is set to launch in the UK this summer, letting those not angrily boycotting the company pay for their stuff without need for cash, cards, chips, PINs, NFC or even a cheque. It'll just work. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"Bah, NFC payments using credit cards take much less faffing around.
You could make shops faster by replacing the machines they have now with ones t..." More »
Mobile network EE, which was at the centre of a little storm over claims a market research company was offering to sell details of its users to the police, has advised everyone to calm down a little. It was anonymised data that wouldn't be able to identify or lead to the tracking of its users. Read More >>
Samsung's never been shy about releasing new kinds of mobile phone, but it's taking things to the next level with its extending of the Galaxy S4 range. Four new S4 tweaks are now known to be on the way, as the Galaxy range expands faster than the universe. Read More >>
Featured comment by PickSuppy:
"Exactly. They know what they are doing. Sadly too many people will blindly accept whatever the retailers/networks pushes at them." More »
Samsung says it has completed and tested one possible format that could be used as a basis for 5G wireless data technology, claiming to have magically pulled connection speeds of up to 1Gbps through its new super-super-fast mobile data connection. Read More >>
While some experts claim the plastic "gun" is about as effective a weapon as holding a bullet in your hand with a pair of pliers and hitting it with a pin, it hasn't stopped some from panicking about the possible mass proliferation of plastic weaponry. Read More >>
Featured comment by hughes82:
"Well those people who think plastic guns cant do any harm should watch the video of him firing it lol
also there have been working plastic guns bef..." More »
A newly released version of Google's background code that operates the Play Store on Android devices has been pulled apart, revealing that the company's previously un-hacked gaming portal is set to launch under the name Google Play Games. Hopefully later this week, too. Read More >>
The EU has tabled a few draft proposals designed to force banks to be clearer on their charges and make comparing fees easier, which could bring about the long-heralded end of mostly "free" banking in the UK. Read More >>
The second of Microsoft's next-generation lumps of hardware is unlikely to appear, with the rumoured media-centric set-top box currently stuck in a development hell with Microsoft unsure whether to entirely bin the project or not. Read More >>
Featured comment by MENTAL1ST:
"A rumour I read was that MS' contender for an Apple TV like device was the rumoured new cheap model of Xbox 360. It'd ship without a DVD drive, wirele..." More »
In a move suggesting there's no more serious a crime in today's society than a rich man's new toy not quite working as advertised, the BBC's investigative TV show Watchdog is planning to shame Samsung over that disparity in advertised and real-world storage space. Read More >>
Featured comment by OMG:
"This is bound to be a silly story by journos use to iOS devices that can't add more memory
"oh dear, we don't have 16Gb only 8Gb shock horror" = be..." More »
A couple of the largest phone shops in the UK have stopped stocking Google and LG's sweet Nexus 4, with both Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U no longer listing it. This has led people who like to think about things to think it means a Nexus 5 launch at next week's Google I/O event is practically guaranteed. Read More >>
Featured comment by RayLWithCheese:
"Be surprised if it was a new phone unless its the rumour 4S (ha!) update, given its only been out for roughly 6 months.
6 months is a long time th..." More »
Every wondered what Google Glass looks like from the perspective of an actual user and outside of Google's glossy, posed promotional videos? That's what you get in this user review video, where a man in possession of the expensive voyeur peripheral sticks a camera up to the lens and gives us a wearer's-eye view of the action. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"What? The only thing I can see in this post which you may've disagreed with is the term "glasshole". In which case, apologies for having a sense of hu..." More »
Charity group Come4, which is looking to launch a non-profit porn site for disabled users, had its advert pulled from YouTube due to the nudity involved and the advocacy of prostitution breaching its terms of service. Read More >>
Featured comment by DoghouseReilly:
"I disagree; Advocacy of slavery (sexual or otherwise) is just wrong. But a consensual sex-for-money transaction? I don't see the problem." More »
An introductory chat about the weather and last night's TV may soon be enough to get you through your bank's telephone security system, with Barclays successfully testing a voice recognition tool that authenticates users by analysing their speech patterns. Read More >>
Despite literally no one in the world ever having anything positive to say about auto-playing video adverts, the billion-user social site is pushing ahead with plans to introduce the full motion ad format to its newsfeed from this July. Read More >>
Featured comment by captainparty:
"My page was lovely, all lovingly hand-coded and pretty, I spend months on it, but I hardly spent any time on my own page, you weren't supposed to, whi..." More »
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