This morning, I was in the middle of a proper writing groove -- coffee brewed, tunes blaring and email inbox set to off -- and all was looking well. Third story of the morning, here I come! But no. Windows had decided, in its infinite wisdom, that its arse-shagging auto-updates were more important, so it restarted on me. Bastards. Read More >>
There's this musical in London, called The Book of Mormon. You might've heard of it. It's not very nice to Mormons. Anyway, in an effort to hit back against the heathens, the #RealMormons have launched a #Twitter campaign (complete with a load of incredibly earnest ads on tubes and buses), all to show how great #Mormons are and how down with da kidz religion is. You don't need to be a social media expert to see where this is going. Read More >>
The UK's security agency has committed the ultimate modern tech crime of sending out password reminders in plain text format, with a GCHQ job applicant seeing his password reminders arrive in shameful, zero-security, pasted-in-an-email style. Read More >>
Samsung's been on a bit of a sexist roll lately, but at least the company's doing the decent thing and 'fessing up, apologising for 'any offence caused' by portraying the fairer sex as a binge-drinking, nail-file-obsessed bunch of swimsuit models. Read More >>
Featured comment by Zerrin:
"This reminds me of when Yahtzee adressed the supposed racism issues in his review of Resident Evil 5. To paraphrase it to this situation:
"One real..." More »
Looks like HTC's getting off on the wrong foot with that whole taking-over-the-world-with-their-new-superphone thing. The UK launch of the HTC One, which was tantalisingly slated for this Friday, March 15th, has been delayed until 29th March. The news comes from Clove, the online phone retailer, in a blog post, with no reason given for the semi-monumental cock-up. Anyone for a Galaxy SIV? Updated: HTC told us: "We will start fulfilling pre-orders by end March in certain markets and will roll out to more markets as we approach April." [Clove] Read More >>
According to the Royal Navy, HMS Lancaster "is in the midst of intensive training, readying herself and her ship's company for a deployment in 2013". If this bit of parking is anything to go by, though, they'll be needing the L plates for a bit longer -- while docking at Canary Wharf, the folks in charge managed to crash the £120 million vessel into the dock with a rather resounding crash. Oops. [YouTube via Think Defence] Read More >>
Featured comment by Psyk60:
"It's funny how so many "tech journos" are outraged at the fact Sony didn't reveal one of the least important details from a tech point of view." More »
Bought something on PayPal recently, and had your payment taken multiple times, but the seller's claiming he's got no money? Yeah, you're not the only one. A website snafu is causing the big 'Pal to overcharge buyers and not reimburse sellers, and Twitter's getting quite angry about it. Read More >>
Featured comment by Bryank:
"It's a total mess. We've suspended taking Paypal orders on our sites as it's causing major customer support issues. Customers don't know if their tran..." More »
Most groups and pages on Facebook are full of dumb crap. Not this one. They are dedicated to tracking down and publicly shaming the worst examples of companies being pandering morons on Facebook -- and their latest find is both shameful and utterly brilliant. Read More >>
Helmet? Check. Segway? Got it. Total dweeb status? Done and done. Under normal circumstances, it's hard to look at someone riding the personal transportation system without cracking up. But try watching a series of people falling off of Segways, and it's utterly impossible to keep a straight face. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"I'd say a little more dangerous, at least a skilled blader can slow down pretty damn quickly where as no amount of skill will get past the Segway's te..." More »
If you've been on Twitter during the whole HorseburgerGate thing, you've probably had your eyeballs violently assaulted by an absolute crapload of the worst puns the internet has to offer. I'll be honest, even we've had a stab. But I never thought Tesco would have the gall to join in. Boy oh boy, was I ever wrong. Read More >>
Supermarkets are wonderful places; grocery-filled utopias equally amazing for the weekly shop and late-night maple syrup runs. They're basically the epitome of modern retail prowess; like the rest of us, though, they're just human, and sometimes they screw up awfully (as I'm sure you've read this morning). Here's a collection of the retail giants' greatest gaffes to date. Read More >>
Featured comment by madwolf:
"And I think by saying "Tesco and Asda were found guilty of bottling and re-branding straight-up tap water as mineral water", you leave yourself open t..." More »
A Windows Phone 8 error that asks you to put in your Windows installation disc and restart the computer. It sounds too funny to be true, right? Apparently it's not. According to some digging by WMPoweruser, it's rare, but real. Read More >>
Featured comment by msxbox:
"My Nokia Lumia 820 and a few of my colleagues phones (inc lumia 920) have been error free since we got them in november is this is a real issue it ma..." More »
A few years back, we learnt that Steve Jobs, genius though he might be, wanted to call the iMac bad things. Bad, terrible things. Well, this week, we've learned his naming stupidity stretched further than just machines -- he wanted to cripple Safari with a blood-curdlingly bad, cliche-riddled excuse for a name. Read More >>
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