A Cut-Price iPad 2 Is Your Rumour-Beating Deal of the Day
It’s been almost a year since the iPad 2 was catapulted at the public, and rumours are rife that its sequel will be with us sooner rather than later.
It’s been almost a year since the iPad 2 was catapulted at the public, and rumours are rife that its sequel will be with us sooner rather than later.
This minute fellow — the one being dwarfed by a US dime — just earned the distinction for not only being the smallest known frog species, but also the smallest known species of vertebrate.
For 16 years NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, RXTE to his friends, provided unprecedented views into the hearts of black holes, white dwarfs and neutron stars. Having far surpassed its initial goals, RXTE has sent its last transmission back to Earth and has been switched off for good.
Osama Bin Laden may have gone out with a whimper but his secret lair in Abbottabad will soon be going out with a bang. A rocket-propelled bang, that is.
The recent hacking of a couple of Finnish anti-piracy sites has stepped up a level, or several levels in fact, with one of the anti-piracy groups revealing it received a bomb threat after assisting in blocking popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay.
Astronomers have found two more new planets orbiting binary stars: Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b. Their discovery, which follows the original Tatooine discovery back in September 2011, is quite important: now we know there are millions of planets orbiting binary stars.
The Lytro cam is probably my favourite piece of tech that has come out in the last couple of years. You never have to worry about a photo being in focus. Well according to The Verge, who interviewed Lytro's Director of Photograpy Eric Cheng, a video-capable Lytro cam is totally possible.
ICANN, the big boss of internet naming, has opened up the registration process for its new range of generic domain addresses. From next year, new top-level domains like .web, .google and .whateverelse will be available.
The televisions that are going to be invading our living rooms in 2012, the ones that Samsung and LG and the rest have been trotting out this week at CES? They're the most exciting gadgets of the year, and not because of any apps or gimmicks or third dimensions being shoved down our throats. In fact, they're wonderful in spite of all that.
Facebook has started placing adverts within its main news feed, causing confusion about the terminology it's using. Instead of saying "Adverts" or "Sponsored posts" or something obvious so you know never to click on the stupid things, the ads are tagged as "Featured" -- which doesn't make it clear that you're seeing a paid comment.
Ofcom has yielded to the request of MPs and issued new guidance on the forthcoming 4G spectrum auction, raising the next-gen mobile network's coverage target from 95 to 98 per cent of the population.
Facebook, pushing along at full force with their new music features has rolled out their latest feature: Listen With Friends. The premise behind Listen With Friends is simple: you see a friend listening to music in your news ticker, and if you both use the same streaming service (Spotify, for example), you can click a button that launches a listening/chat room.
On the floor of CES, tucked away in Haier's booth is a TV set advertising BRAIN CONTROL. I was immediately intrigued. Could I think about wanting to watch the latest episode of Desperate Housewives and have it automatically flash on screen? I had to find out.
I admit I never thought of putting a speaker inside a vase. It's perfect! Sort of? Unless you're actually trying to put real flowers. No water allowed.
The cheaper arm of Everything Everywhere, T-Mobile, has apparently been blocking secure email and VPN access with techniques akin to the Great Firewall of China, leaving people fat out of luck for email over 3G.
It doesn't sound like particularly shimmery compliment, but the best thing that I can say about Microsoft's Metro UI is that after over a year of using it in various iterations, it still feels new. Not like never-breached-my-eyeballs-before new, but new as in the promise of something better, something from the future. But it's here, and I'm touching it with Windows 8. And it's going to redefine how like a bajillion people are going to use their computer over the next couple of years.
