A new study’s found that how scientists have been thinking about memory is all wrong – and we may actually be able to restore them when they're lost. For a long time, neuroscientists thought that the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, were where memory was located. But researchers from UCLA have found that…

Google+ has had an automatic image enhancing feature for some time, and now Google has revealed that the same feature will be enhancing videos on the service. If you use Google+'s auto-backup feature, and you have 'Auto Enhance' activated in your settings, any videos uploaded to Google+ will have their lighting, colour, and stability enhanced. Google has also…

Last month Amazon announced that its Prime Instant Video streaming service would start streaming video in 'Ultra-HD' 4K resolution. Now that feature has arrived in the UK, and subscribers won't have to pay extra in order to access it. The amount of 4K content is limited at the moment, but it does includes a number…

In case the site’s own data collection (and manipulation) wasn’t invasive enough, now Spanish researchers have made a new app, called SentBuk, that’s designed to gauge Facebook users’ moods. The good news is it needs users’ permission in order to work. Álvaro Ortigosa and his team from the National Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity at…

Some of us will remember the good old days of the dumbphone. The days when we could forget to plug our phone into charge for days at a time and not suffer the consequences. These days some smartphones can't even go 24 hours without being put on life support, something that does not fly with Lenovo.…

Yesterday it was announced that the Asus ZenWatch was going on sale on 23rd December, and at the time of writing it wasn't available to pre-order on the Currys/PC World website. Circumstances have now changed slightly, because it's available right now. Not only has the ZenWatch appeared on both the Currys and PC World websites, you can…

The introduction of TouchID meant that iPhone and iPad users no longer had to remember another of those pesky four-digit passcodes to unlock their phone. All they had to do was scan their fingerprints on the home button to get in. As simple and effective as it was, TouchID could be seeing further improvements in…

Smoking’s a tough habit to break, but scientists have found a new way to make giving up the cancer sticks a little easier. According to a new study reported in New Scientist, a plant extract called cytisine is actually more effective than nicotine patches or gum at helping people to quit. It’s taken from the…

The Fire Phone may not have done very well, but Amazon's CEO did confirm that more of them are on the way. Now sources claim that the Fire Phone 2 is already in development, but it won't be arriving in our hands until sometime in 2016. The sources spoke to Venturebeat, stating that Amazon has been…