What have the three boys, Aaron Lampard, Connor McCormack and Luke Jones got in common? They’re actually all just one girl; masquerading as a bloke to get a little touchy-feely with two teenage girls she was friends with in real life.
Ninjas have been usurped as the number one threat to pirates. The new "Ghost" high-speed attack vessel from Juliet Marine Systems is going to severely f*ck some scallywags up.
The intricate gears and mechanisms of a watch with a complicated movement are usually hidden inside a metal housing. But not with Richard Mille's latest creation, the RM65, which features a housing carved from a single block of sapphire crystal.
How much do you want to prance across this NES controller, which just so happens to be the world's largest gamepad? If you hotfoot it over to Liverpool Street station in London today, you can button-mash with all fours, while playing Tetris against a world-champ. No, not Dr. Mario, I'm afraid to say.
Apple’s just been awarded a swath of patents in the US for so called “smart garments”. It seems to want to turn the clothes on your back into sensors to keep an eye on you. There’s also a patent in there for telling you when your clothes have worn out, just not when you stink and they need a wash, unfortunately.
If you've ever seen the sun come up quickly over the city in CSI, or that fox decomposing in the title credits of True Blood, you've seen timelapse in action. Here's how to do it...
Wait, I thought evolution was an interminably slow process requiring millions of years to make any noticeable difference? Apparently not if you're yeast. A research team has just announce that it's figured out how to evolve a single-celled organism into a multicellular animal just like a freakin' Pokemon.
At CES last week, in addition to all the gear and gadgets, there was something else on display: women. As with many trade shows — especially ones aimed at a male audience — CES was rife with booth babes.
Virgin Media has issued an apology about last night. The company's broadband service suffered a three-hour period of downtime yesterday evening, which effected users across the country.
Remember when we all used to sit around the TV together as a family and there was only three channels, and they broadcasted the programmes so quietly that we all had to take turns holding the ear trumpet?
Electric cars haven't exactly been flying off the forecourts of dealers across the UK, and now there's another eco technology on the way to battle for the incredibly small low-carbon car market. Get ready for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which the government expects to hit the market in 2014 or 2015.
Treat this as purely rumour, but a mysterious, suspiciously Galaxy S III-looking phone made a very brief appearance in a Samsung produced “pushing the boundaries” CES video from its press conference last week. You’ll have to skip to 7:11 below to see it; blink and you’ll miss it.
Every app I download seems to want more and more access rights — to either my SD card, my internet connection, and even my address book. And with every app, my phone gets a little less secure. The new SE Android OS aims to lock down my phone against any and all exploits.
Some internet chancers think there's money to be had in registering one of the new .xxx porn domains in the name of Richard Branson. God knows how they came to that conclusion. As you might expect, Virgin's legal people are currently trying to get it back. Richard must have plans for it. [BBC]
Microsoft dropped the hardware requirements for Windows 8 a month ago, but many of the choice bits were buried amongst the 1000-page sea of technical jargon and general obscura. The brave souls over at WithinWindows ostensibly just emerged from the depths with the choicest pearls of compatibility wisdom.
Facebook’s had enough of worms targeting its users; both it and Sophos have taken the fight to the hackers with a WikiLeaks-style naming and shaming. A four-strong Russian hacking gang were behind the botnet, which has taken control of over 800,000 machines and terrorised millions.
