Cupid is not going to be OK when he hears this news. According to a new study published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, couples who meet via online dating are less likely to stay together than couples who first encounter each other IRL. Recent research from eHarmony found that one in three…

Despite being useful in some ways the smartwatch is still heavily reliant on the smartphone to function. Even the recently unveiled Gear S from Samsung is useless without a smartphone to work with. But they're babysteps, small but important, and with papers from the US FCC teasing a 3G smartwatch from LG we might not be…

LED screens are generally considered to be the next step up from LCD, the future of the displays across the board. Now a new advancement in LED technology means we might be able to get screens that are clearer, more efficient, and cheaper to produce. The man behind the discovery, Professor Stephen Chou is known…

A lot of people might be wary about testing the capabilities of a waterproof smartphone, which is hardly surprising given how expensive they are. You don't want to end up with a £400 brick because you decided to throw it into a swimming pool do you? The folks at Carphone Warehouse were less wary, instead…

As anyone who's ever dropped a phone will attest to, smartphones are incredible fragile creatures. Gone are the days where you could throw a Nokia phone around like a rag-doll to find that it doesn't have a scratch on it. It's not quite the same, but the Portal smartphone isn't going to shatter when you…

There was a big kerfuffle a few years back when it became clear that logging into Facebook installed cookies on your computer that were capable of viewing your browser history, even when you weren't logged into Facebook. People were rightly annoyed. Now it looks like that programme is expanding somewhat. The new system will see…

Practicing yoga or meditation makes it easier to control a computer with your mind, according to new research. Biomedical engineers from the University of Minnesota recruited 36 study participants, 12 of whom had at least a year’s experience of yoga or meditation and 24 of whom had little to no experience. None of them had…

One of the key features of Sony smartphones is that pretty much all of the recent ones are waterproof, and can last a decent chunk of time under the surface of the wet stuff, and it seems it isn't stopping there with the Ws610, a set of waterproof headphones that come with their own remote…

The thing about phone calls is that it's totally reliant on both recipients being able to hear what the other person is saying. While the rise of texting, instant messaging, and even voice calls has made it easier for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, RogerVoice is a way for them to take…