http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:02:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/proof-that-some-lawyers-have-a-sense-of-humour/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/proof-that-some-lawyers-have-a-sense-of-humour/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:00:25 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=175233 Lawyers are generally regarded as slightly above pond scum and patent trolls in the morality and humour scales; but if anything will prove that wrong, it’s this hilarious letter sent pro bono in response to a cease-and-desist letter, which can only be described as a work of genius. The story goes like this: do-gooder resident [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/proof-that-some-lawyers-have-a-sense-of-humour/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/over-the-top-digital-security-measures-to-beat-the-nsa/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/over-the-top-digital-security-measures-to-beat-the-nsa/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:00:27 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=173631 Because they’re out there, watching. Well, maybe not you specifically. But they could be, if they wanted to, and that’s a bit creepy. Here’s how to shut them outta your life.   Get a Security Token Passwords? Forget that crap. What you need is a Yubikey. Basically, it’s a flash drive that works as the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/over-the-top-digital-security-measures-to-beat-the-nsa/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/sharing-your-web-browser-with-random-strangers-is-horrible-and-awesome/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/sharing-your-web-browser-with-random-strangers-is-horrible-and-awesome/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:00:49 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174441 You’re never really alone on the Internet. Chances are if you’re on a webpage, someone else is there too; you just don’t see them. It doesn’t have to be that way though. “We See in Every Direction” is a web browser you can share with dozens of other Internet denizens all at once. It is [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/sharing-your-web-browser-with-random-strangers-is-horrible-and-awesome/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/here-are-the-very-first-posts-on-your-favorite-websites/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/here-are-the-very-first-posts-on-your-favorite-websites/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:00:41 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174344 You use Twitter. You use YouTube. You use Amazon. You check Reddit. You know what TMZ is. You even been on PostSecret before. But when did you start using all of this stuff? What was your first post? Do you want to know what each of those websites first post was? Yeah you do. The [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/here-are-the-very-first-posts-on-your-favorite-websites/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/google-wants-to-use-balloons-to-cover-the-world-in-wi-fi/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/google-wants-to-use-balloons-to-cover-the-world-in-wi-fi/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:00:04 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174340 If you go deep inside the desert or climb a mountain or find yourself in the South Pole or a remote farm or any place that can be considered ‘the middle of no where’, guess what? You have no internet. Well, Wired is reporting that Google wants to change all that by sending high-altitude balloons [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/google-wants-to-use-balloons-to-cover-the-world-in-wi-fi/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/these-internet-memes-art-pieces-should-be-in-a-museum/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/these-internet-memes-art-pieces-should-be-in-a-museum/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:00:05 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=173758 You know a meme when you see one. Silly image. Impact font. Chortling punchline. You know when something goes viral on the Internet too. It’s all over Facebook. Every site you go to has a post about it. You keep seeing it for three weeks. But you’ve never seen memes and Internet viral hits like [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/these-internet-memes-art-pieces-should-be-in-a-museum/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/what-exactly-is-a-meme/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/what-exactly-is-a-meme/#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:00:22 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=172389 You’ve seen hundreds of ‘em. You hold a few dear to your heart. You love seeing that Impact font. You laugh at those who call it meh-meh or mimi (even if you once did). You think you know the Internet, so you think you know what a meme is. But how did memes take over? [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/what-exactly-is-a-meme/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/microsoft-outlines-full-used-game-plan-and-xbox-ones-online-requirements/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/microsoft-outlines-full-used-game-plan-and-xbox-ones-online-requirements/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:00:52 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=172084 Microsoft wanted to talk about TV integration at Xbox One launch event, but all we wanted was crystal clear clarification of its “always-on” internet requirements and what, if any, forms of DRM may be in place to restrict sales of used games. Now, after weeks of fuss and nonsense, we know. Everything’s on the record. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/microsoft-outlines-full-used-game-plan-and-xbox-ones-online-requirements/feed/ 65 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/presenting-the-scientifically-perfect-pinterest-picture/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/presenting-the-scientifically-perfect-pinterest-picture/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:00:30 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=171591 Cool cucumber, weathered wood, crocheted doily—apparently these are the makings of the perfect Pinterest picture, according to a year’s worth of research provided to Wired by data-crunching startup Curalate. The picture is from the Paula Deen recipe for “Aunt Peggy’s Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad.” It’s been repinned 307,000 times, liked 800 times, and commented [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/presenting-the-scientifically-perfect-pinterest-picture/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/eu-to-block-isp-throttling-as-part-of-cross-european-net-neutrality-laws/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/eu-to-block-isp-throttling-as-part-of-cross-european-net-neutrality-laws/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:45:59 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=171455 European vice president Neelie Kroes is looking to block some of the more anti-competitive practices carried out by ISPs, thanks to a proposed EU-wide net neutrality law that would stop ISPs limiting bandwidth used by troublesome or competitive apps and services. The move would, for example, stop your ISP limiting the connection speed you see when [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/eu-to-block-isp-throttling-as-part-of-cross-european-net-neutrality-laws/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/bbc-home-page-clock-to-be-pulled-after-one-complaint/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/bbc-home-page-clock-to-be-pulled-after-one-complaint/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:30:51 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=171433 Did you know there’s a clock on the BBC’s home page? Well there is. That’s it there in a screenshot. The problem is, it uses your PC’s system time to display the time, so if your PC’s set wrong so is the BBC’s clock. And for that petty reason alone, it’s going to be removed. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/bbc-home-page-clock-to-be-pulled-after-one-complaint/feed/ 28 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-a-teenager-rickrolled-vine/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-a-teenager-rickrolled-vine/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:00:03 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=171074 You’re only supposed to be able to upload a six-second clip to Vine—but somehow yesterday sixteen-year-old Will Smidlein managed to bypass that rule and post the whole of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Uh, well done? It didn’t go down so well with Vine engineers, who very quickly sent him a direct message [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-a-teenager-rickrolled-vine/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/chopped-cable-downs-virgin-media-tv-and-internet-on-the-south-coast/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/chopped-cable-downs-virgin-media-tv-and-internet-on-the-south-coast/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:45:47 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=171089 The precious umbilical cord of light that connects thousands of Portsmouth and Southampton residents to the internet has been cut through by engineers, leaving thousands of Virgin customers in the area without telly and cable broadband. According to local news reports, people in the PO and SO post code areas are currently sobbing into a [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/chopped-cable-downs-virgin-media-tv-and-internet-on-the-south-coast/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-space-invaders-404-page-is-the-funnest-404-error-page-ever/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-space-invaders-404-page-is-the-funnest-404-error-page-ever/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:00:15 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=170436 Few things are worse on the Internet than reaching a 404 error page. It’s soul sucking, cable checking, life wondering, browser refreshing, absence inducing, mortality questioning bad. But it doesn’t always have to be! Some 404 Page Not Found Errors are hilarious. A few are entertaining. This one has to be the most fun. If [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-space-invaders-404-page-is-the-funnest-404-error-page-ever/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/o2-dumps-bt-wi-fi-losing-you-access-from-july-1st/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/o2-dumps-bt-wi-fi-losing-you-access-from-july-1st/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 12:15:32 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=170199 Are you an O2 customer? Do you regularly access BT’s millions of Wi-Fi hotspots? No? Good, because you’re about to lose your free access to them. The network’s four-year deal with BT is up and it hasn’t renewed. Instead, it’s going it alone with its own O2 Wi-Fi network. According to O2, only about 4,200 [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/o2-dumps-bt-wi-fi-losing-you-access-from-july-1st/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/big-changes-coming-for-bt-users-as-isp-dumps-yahoo-email/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/big-changes-coming-for-bt-users-as-isp-dumps-yahoo-email/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 10:15:31 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=170148 Those of you who defy fashion and stick with good old BT for your internet and email services will soon witness a massive change to its web mail system, thanks to a move to dump Yahoo as its email provider. Currently, BT’s web email interface is branded as being “Yahoo! Mail” product and comes complete [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/big-changes-coming-for-bt-users-as-isp-dumps-yahoo-email/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/now-you-can-grab-free-wi-fi-at-heathrow-airport/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/now-you-can-grab-free-wi-fi-at-heathrow-airport/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 15:45:18 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=169340 Off on your summer holidays and flying from Heathrow soon? Good news then, as the airport has announced that it’s coughed up to give everyone 45 minutes of free Wi-Fi before boarding. Considering some parts of it are a mobile signal dead zone, Wi-Fi could come in handy for keeping you entertained with Top Gear [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/now-you-can-grab-free-wi-fi-at-heathrow-airport/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/paired-fibre-beams-boost-range-and-speed-of-fibre-networks/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/paired-fibre-beams-boost-range-and-speed-of-fibre-networks/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 11:45:15 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=169190 Some clever research into boosting fibre optic speeds has managed to increase the range and capacity of fibre, thanks to sending two data streams down the pipe instead of one. In a paper bewilderingly titled Phase-conjugated twin waves for communication beyond the Kerr nonlinearity limit, researchers put forward their concept, which involves sending a pair of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/paired-fibre-beams-boost-range-and-speed-of-fibre-networks/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-sending-mirror-image-signals-could-speed-up-the-internet/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-sending-mirror-image-signals-could-speed-up-the-internet/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 18:00:32 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=169049 A team of researchers has developed a technique which uses mirror images signals to dramatically increase the accuracy—and speed—of data transmission across the internet. The team explain in Nature Photonics how it’s possible to send not one but two beams of light down a fibre cable: one the normal data signal, the other its mirror [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-sending-mirror-image-signals-could-speed-up-the-internet/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-the-first-thing-you-can-remember-doing-on-the-internet/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-the-first-thing-you-can-remember-doing-on-the-internet/#comments Sun, 26 May 2013 22:00:04 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168951 There’s no denying the global connectivity literally changed the world, and most of are lucky enough to have been alive and conscious when that paradigm shift was rolling out. You might not remember your first real interaction with the digital behemoth, but you have to have a first recollection. What is it? It’s worth noting [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-the-first-thing-you-can-remember-doing-on-the-internet/feed/ 28