Month: December 2014
YouTube is testing a GIF making feature
Everyone loves a good GIF, and in many cases they're a lot better for displaying your reaction online than something more basic like an emoticon. The problem is that making good GIFs isn't that easy, which is why its great YouTube is testing its own GIF-making tools. It seems that it's a very limited test run…
NASA parodies Meghan Trainor with ‘All About That Space’
Everyone loves the catchy beat of Meghan Trainor's smash hit 'All About That Bass', but not everyone's been quite as keen on the lyrics. Luckily, NASA's here to save us with their science-themed parody, 'All About That Space', and we love it. Yes, some of the dancing's a bit dodgy and yes, it goes on…
Will Facebook finally let us ‘dislike’ things?
In a live Facebook Q&A yesterday, founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company is looking into the idea of letting us dislike stuff – or at least have more of a range of human emotions. According to The Next Web, a ‘dislike’ button is still off the table, because Facebook’s not about negativity. (Just manipulating…
BT is expected to choose between O2 and EE anytime now
You may remember recent reports that indicated BT was looking to buy a mobile network, with both O2 and EE up for grabs. Today it's been revealed that the telecoms giant is supposedly getting ready to reveal its decision anytime now. Sources told Reuters that the decision is set to be revealed, and it could come…
Orange Wednesdays will soon be gone from this world
It's been around for over 10 years, and in the face of rising ticket prices it's provided many a person the opportunity to split the cost of a big-screen outing with a friend. Sadly EE has announced that the Orange Wednesdays deal that has provided us with 2-for-1 cinema tickets every Wednesday since 2003 will end on 25th February.…
iPads can make penguins procreate (probably)
It’s been a big year for penguins. Not only have they embraced their robot brethren and starred in the best John Lewis Christmas ad of all time, like orangutans before them, they’ve now started using iPads – with unexpected side effects. As Fast Company reports, little magellanic penguins at the Aquarium of the Pacific in…
New drugs provide hope for incurable skin cancer
A new type of medication could provide hope for otherwise incurable skin cancers. It’s the result of a breakthrough study from The Institute of Cancer Research in London and the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, which was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK, and is now published in the journal Cancer Cell.…
We tried the 30-second ‘wrapping hack’. It took 6 minutes.
This video of a man speed-wrapping boxes in a Japanese department store has been going crazy on the interwebs: At last, all our problems with wrapping regular-shaped boxes are over! Surely we, too, can flash-wrap our Christmas presents this way? Well, I gave it a go. And you know what? It's impossible. Not only does he do it too…
Chromecast’s ‘Guest Mode’ lets anyone connect to your TV
Since it launched the only way to connect to Chromecast was to use a device connected to the same Wi-Fi network. But what if it's not your device, and you don't fancy handing out your Wi-Fi password to your friends? That's what Guest Mode is for. First announced at Google I/O in June, and launching today,…
The Galaxy S6 Edge might not even happen
There have been rumours about the possibility of the Samsung Galaxy S6 being released alongside a 'Edge' variant that has the a similar secondary curved display to the one found in the Galaxy Note 4. Now it seems that it might not happen after all. Sammobile, the site that started the original rumour, claims that…
