Sky’s created the most amazing five-minute long trailer for its upcoming F1 coverage, which plays out more like a movie. No matter what you think of Sky, I defy any F1 fan to watch this and not get excited – just make sure you’ve got the sound on.
Spotify’s great for parties; you can listen to pretty much anything you like with your guests able to dip into the 15 million track-library and find something choice. Now it’s got even better with gapless playback and crossfade support to make sure your massive trance sessions roll without interruptions.
Netflix has some great news; it’s tied-up yet more streaming exclusives in the form of Academy Award nominated films from The Weinstein Company including The Artist. Trouble is us Brits aren’t in on the deal, and that’s a problem.
Okay, so you’ve been out and bought your PS Vita and now you’re wondering how you can get access to cheap data, right? Look, just pretend you are, okay? Humour us for crying out loud.
If you're like most people, photography boils down to automatic mode paired with luck. Not for US Army officer Alex Jansen, who wrote up a massive guide to crisp low-light photography based on "the four fundamentals of marksmanship. Snap, headshot.
A third of all UK homes are failing to get broadband speeds that reach the national average, according to data that compiles the results of around 1.7m speed tests conducted by frustrated men.
In order for a technology to take off these days, it has to be simple. Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify -- each can be summed up in a sentence or so and readily understood from the very first time you use it. Tomahawk is more complicated, but if you're a music fan who listens to music on a laptop or desktop -- and has friends who do too -- it warrants a try, and possibly a place in your quiver of favourite music apps.
We’ve been making leaps and bounds on using ethanol as a replacement fuel to petrol, but it’s always been a bit pricey to produce. A brand new enzyme means we might finally be able to stick pure-booze created from dead plants in our tanks and it won’t cost a bomb.
HTC also has a secret thing to show at Mobile World Congress, like Nokia and Asus. Sadly, HTC's secrets have long been smeared across the internet, so everyone knows its fast things are new dual and quad-core Android phones. But good to see HTC carrying on the charade and pretending it isn't the leakiest ship in technology. [HTC]
An ITV News lunchtime report on a football racism summit chaired by David Cameron made the astonishing mistake of referring to black players as "coloured," triggering a right old furore on the internet yesterday.
It’s well known that when Apple comes up to refreshing or replacing a product stock runs dry of the current model. Now it seems PC World is totally out of Apple TVs and won’t be getting any more any time soon. If that doesn’t scream “new Apple TV” I’m not sure what does.
In the run-up to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, ZTE has just announced that it will be launching eight new phones at the event. I hate to be the one to break it to you, ZTE, but less can be more.
Asus has joined Nokia in releasing a fact-free Mobile World Congress teaser. It uses stacking Russian dolls to symbolise the combining of three technologies in one thing, so it's pretty much a dead cert we'll be seeing its bonkers phone/tablet docking PadPhone concept revealed (again) in a reworked form factor at next week's tech event. [YouTube via Asus]
Sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes life imitates a series of stupid spy movie cliches: a briefcase detailing a joint French/UK military drone was stolen in Paris. A briefcase! A briefcase full of secret documents. Christ, man.
The controversial Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement appears to have run into stiff resistance within the European Parliament, with the EU's head of trade Karel De Gucht referring the scheme to the European Court of Justice to assess whether it's actually legal to implement across Europe.
