There are way, way too many wireless charging standards, which is part of the reason that the technology is struggling to take off. Now, though, Broadcom has developed a chip that could allow your phone to use any of them. This could change things completely.
It suffered its fair share of pre-launch leaks and rumours, but LG's G3 flagship smartphone managed to keep a handful of secrets back for last night's launch event. With a 2560 x 1440 resolution screen, a Laser Auto Focus camera and speedy quad-core processor, it has left nothing to chance. But does it have what it takes to impress over its iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S5 competition?
Are you looking forward to The Edge Of Tomorrow? I am — it looks like Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers, repeatedly pitting Tom Cruise against aliens that blow him to bits in many and varied creative ways.
Did you laugh in movies like The Hangover, Bridesmaids, Anchorman or Old School? I did. But they're not nearly as funny as some of Edgar Wright's movies like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and so on. Why? Because they're visually funny too.
If you think watching the launch of a single rocket is cool get ready to see all the thirteen Saturn V rockets launching at the same time. The video is composed in a single screen so you see all of them ignite and launch at once.
In the coming months, the country's wealthier neighbourhoods are going to get a new bit of eye-candy on the driveways. No, not a new Aston, but rather the shiny new Tesla Model S: an all-electric saloon that'll finally be making its way to our right-hand drive shores, two years after going on sale in the US -- a shame, seeing as our island is a much better fit for the electric car flagship.
To modern eyes, they're as intuitive as the alphabet: the bubbly cloud, the circle and its simplistic rays of sunshine. But our weather icons are actually pretty new inventions. Up until the 1970s, meteorologists used an enigmatic system of symbols to forecast the weather—until a design student came along and changed everything.
A Twitter user going by the name @HiddenCash has been pumping out photos of parts of San Francisco, with successful location-seekers finding envelopes full of actual money hidden in spots around the city.
It's been 48 years since England lifted the World Cup and, despite producing some of football's brightest stars, our national players always seem to crack under the pressure of the occasion. So what are they getting wrong? Acclaimed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking thinks he's figured out what a procession of England managers have failed to -- and he's got a formula to prove it.
Following on from March's desktop overhaul and yesterday's WinPhone announcement, the BBC's iPlayer team now turns its attentions to its iOS and Android mobile apps, with updated versions rolling out today. New features include a revamped and curated Home screen, a more sensibly delineated Category view, subtitle support for downloaded shows and smoother switching between landscape and portrait orientations. Live TV rewind functionality is also teased for a future update. [BBC]
The Steven Spielberg-produced, Halle Berry-starring sci-fi drama TV show Extant has been snapped up by Amazon's Prime Instant Video service exclusively, as its battle to best Netflix's homegrown content continues. If you want to know what life on Earth for Berry's astronaut is like after a year-long stint in space, the show debuts in the UK on July 10th -- a needless day later than its US premiere, given it's on a streaming platform after all. [Amazon]
Like it or not, technology is something many of us can no longer live without. It is part of our daily lives and it both helps (hello internet) and hinders us (no effing signal again!). But what’s your favourite piece of technology? Photograph it and you could win this week’s Shooting Challenge.
We said this would happen. The console price war is finally on, and mercifully, there are no casualties -- only weapons of mass distraction. You won't have to shell out as much for a PS4, which we're all tankful for. And there end the warfare puns. Sorry. We're mortarfied at our attempts.
A PR stunt for Ubisoft's new Watch Dogs game has backfired, with a Police bomb squad called to the offices of an Australian news station.
Amazon has been playing dirty in the shadows with publishing house Hachette all month, but now it's openly admitted that it's playing hardball with the company.
Preparing your finger muscles for the rumoured 4.7- or 5.7-inch stretch across the new iPhone's screen? Then you may have until the 19th September to get your digits up to scratch, as that's the latest date being rumoured for the start of iPhone 6 sales.
