Month: October 2014
The ten best digital radios you can buy
[nextpage title="Next"] We live in a time where all UK television signals are broadcast digitally, rather than with the high-potential-for-static-interference analogue signals of old. While television has made the big leap into the 21st century, digital radio is still lagging behind it's century-old predecessor. So instead of managing with FM and AM signals, you should…
An exploit in Samsung’s ‘Find My Mobile’ service could remotely wipe your phone
If you're using Samsung's own 'Find My Mobile' service to keep an eye on your phone, you might want to swap over to Android Device Manager pretty soon. As it turns out there's an exploit that will allow nefarious individuals to remotely access and ring, lock, or wipe your phone. Apparently Find My Mobile doesn't…
Game Review – promotional post
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An Office 365 subscription now comes with unlimited OneDrive storage
Cloud storage is a great innovation, but if you're planning on using it to store a lot of data then you can't make do with the free allowance you get allocated. Those of you in this situation are in luck, because Office 365 subscribers now get unlimited OneDrive storage at no extra cost. So how…
Massuni launches design-your-own-furniture Kickstarter
How many times have you found the perfect piece of furniture for that awkward corner in the living room, but it’s just a couple of centimetres too big, or thought that you would have snapped up that bookcase if only the lower shelf were deep enough for your Encyclopaedia Britannica? Most of us have had…
Fitbit has unveiled the Charge, Charge HR, and Surge fitness trackers
We've heard the rumours and seen the leaks, but now we get to see the real thing because Fitbit has announced three new fitness trackers that will be made available in the coming months: The Charge, Charge HR, and the Surge. They won't all be coming out at the same time, however. The Charge is…
This new testing strip can detect Ebola, thanks to jellyfish
Scientists have developed a new testing strip that uses synthetic DNA strands (plus a protein from jellyfish) to accurately identify Ebola. As New Scientist reports, Jim Collins from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and his team have made small paper rectangles printed with sequences of DNA and then freeze-dried. When…
The week in hashtags: #TheQueenTweets, #FCKH8, #NoJustice, #OttawaStrong
The Queen got in on the act, time went backwards and Twitter got angry... again. Here are the most important hashtags from the past week. #NoJustice, #ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence When Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for the culpable homicide of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Tuesday (as little as 10 months of which could actually…
The new Bruvelo coffee maker is controlled by app
It’s the dream for all of us who struggle to get up in the morning, especially at this time of year: a coffee maker you can turn on without having to get out of bed. Bruvelo is a new app-controlled coffee maker powered by WiFi. To use, you just open the app, pick from one…
Chemicals in cocoa can improve our memories
Good news, chocolate fans: cocoa can improve our memories. A lot. Scientific American has the scoop, but to summarise: research from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons found that compounds in cocoa increase blood flow to the dentate gyrus. This is the part of the brain that allows us to tell different objects apart.…
