Virgin Media's automated censoring tool has been giving everyone a good laugh over the weekend, thanks to over enthusiastically scanning programme listings and removing potentially rude words regardless of context.
The Apple TV rumours have been flying lately. Whether it'll be a service, an actual TV, or just another set-top box, isn't exactly set in stone. Adding to the rumour mill, the Wall Street Journal has laid bare everything it's got on Apple's so-called "TV assault". Apparently Cupertino is "in talks" with its media partners to "change the way consumers watch TV".
Those of you who bought into last year's Nexus dream should have had an exciting day of tinkering yesterday, thanks to Google launching an update that takes the Samsung-made Nexus S to Android 4.0.3.
Did you think that quantum physics is complicated? Try the quantum theory of pixels, as explained by 8-bit Professor Hawking.
UK-based communications giant British Telecom has filed a law suit alleging that almost every Google product infringes at least one of six of their patents. But should we really care?
I love Poly. This iPad app allows you to draw points on any photograph, turning it into a colourful mosaic of polygons. The effect is really pretty. Sadly, it's optimised for iPad 2 and runs slow on the first iPad.
I prefer to call it The Force — a particle that "surrounds us and penetrates us" binding the galaxy together — but Czech physicist Luboš Motl makes a good case as to why the Higgs boson should be called the God Particle.
An anonymous reader sent me this crazy video taken two weeks ago: a truck out of control almost smashes a car on a snowy road in Russia. Fortunately, these guys got extremely lucky and Death got distracted at the very last second.
There has been an explosion at one of the factories of Pegatron Corp—a manufacturer of back panel parts for Apple's iPad 2. The explosion has injured 57 workers, with 23 hospitalised with burns.
Hyperrealist painting is nothing new. Derived from photorealism in the '70s, this early aughts art movement aims to turn actual photographs into paintings. These are extraordinary examples by a young Italian painter, Roberto Bernardi. His command of oil painting just defies belief, doesn't it?
Oh these are clever. CLEVER I say, and pretty: a cocktail glass surrounded by a normal glass. The inside out Martini for the upside down Bond in you.
NASA's new VIIRS—or Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite—satellite travels in a sun-synchronous orbit. So as it photographs the planet, each photo is taken at the same time ensuring that all the images have similar lighting.
Being a cyclist in a busy city is dangerous for many reasons, but someone in Russia has at least solved the problem of limited visibility with this transforming bike that can give the rider a high or low stance.
Powered by an AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics card, Chad Smith's five screen racing simulator looks like it provides almost the same thrills as the military's simulators, without requiring the military's budget.
It's not going to guarantee you an A+ like showing up with a working portal gun would. But you can still wow your teachers by building your own version of Portal 2's potato-powered AI, even though the kit's a fraud.
It doesn't take the detective prowess of Sam Spade to see how awesome this 88-metre is. It can take you from New York to Barcelona in ten days flat in the lap of luxury.
