Google Looks to Restore "Don't Be Evil" Image With Chrome Search Demotion
Google's hit itself with the ban-hammer after the fracas yesterday over paid links artificially inflating Google Chrome's PageRank and breaking Google's own terms of service.
Google's hit itself with the ban-hammer after the fracas yesterday over paid links artificially inflating Google Chrome's PageRank and breaking Google's own terms of service.
2012 could be the year when you finally get around to fulfilling your potential as an auteur and become THE great filmmaker of your era. Or at a push, get something on You’ve Been Framed.
This discovery is amazing, amd straight out of a Jules Verne's novel: scientists from the University of Oxford, University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre, and the British Antarctic Survey have discovered a "lost world" under Antarctica, in the East Scotia Ridge.
We're headed to a post-PC existence, but we ain't there yet. The rise to prominence of Ultrabooks, though, brings the modern laptop closer to a tablet experience than a desktop. Their speed, portability, and tiny-but-not-a-piece-of-crap-netbook-ness have made them popular, but which is the one to own?
Now that's a fantastic use of the back of a 50p -- explaining the odd sports rule like offside. The Royal Mint has been putting its collection of commemorative 50p coins into circulation since 2010, but now you can buy the complete set of the shiny 29 sporting 50p pieces for £85 or £2.99 each (plus postage).
NASA has already spent some time explaining why all the 2012 End of the World theories are as stupid as those who postulate them. This video is not by NASA, but it summarises things perfectly.
An advert for TalkTalk's broadband, which featured imagery of a doll's house while claiming its broadband was the UK's "safest" and therefore clearly inferred your children would inevitably be MURDERED at a distant rural railway station if you risked using any other ISP, has been judged as misleading by the UK's ad watchdog.
Old Portsmouth saw a flurry of activity after a 999 call sent the coast guard and police rushing into action to rescue a plastic replica of everyone's favourite childhood alien, ET. Of course neither the caller, nor the emergency services suspected the mysterious disheveled body spotted floating five miles off shore was plastic until they got it back to dry land.
According to the official Asus social media feeds, the Transformer Prime is going to get an update to Android 4.0 starting on the 12th of January, the same day the quad-core tablet is due to land in the UK.
Nokia has been running a long and public series of tests of solar-powered mobile charging technology, and the results are in. It really doesn't work very well.
Poor old UK electrical retailer Comet is about to feel the full legal force of Microsoft, with the US software giant claiming Comet made and distributed over 94,000 illegal copies of Windows XP and Vista.
French and German network collaboration Everything Everywhere is teaming up with China Telecom -- to launch a Chinese mobile network in the UK. We are all so very cosmopolitan these days.
I don't think annoying your brother with a few foot jabs warrants getting slapped across the face with an iPad but hey, boys will be boys. Maybe brother was trying to set a new high score! Or maybe he was Facetiming a cute girl! Who knows! All I know now is that the iPad makes for an awesome slapping device. [YouTube]
Helping free the injured and clearing up accidents is only half the problem of car crashes on our motorways -- the police and traffic officers also have to catalogue the scene to work out what happened and who's going to pay for the mess. New 3D laser scanners should hopefully cut motorway closure times by capturing the scene in minutes, speeding up the laborious process dramatically.
The Apple TV is a bit of a lame duck in the UK, especially when compared to what's available in the US. Rumour has it Apple is courting the idea of bidding for the streaming rights for the Premier League to bolster its content roster for the Apple TV and iPad within the UK.
It's kind of hard to impress anyone in home theatre anymore, but you'll probably pull it off with a no-one-can-hear-you-scream vacuum in your living room.
