SnapUp means you’ll never miss a sale again!
It happens time and time again. We find something we’re desperate to buy online, and then realise we can’t afford it. Now, SnapUp has made it possible for you to know exactly when your dream item goes on sale, so you can snap it up at a cheaper price! SnapUp works with around 1000 online…
Early cancer diagnoses could increase thanks to sophisticated new test
Cancer research has traditionally focused on the early warning signs of cancer, called biomarkers, which can alert doctors to the presence of the disease before patients even have symptoms. For years, scientists have attempted to spot these biomarkers increasingly early but their progress has been slow. Now a new study from Arizona State University's Biodesign…
Jawbone UP adds smart food tracking, becomes our favourite health and fitness app
When Jawbone's app is combined with one of the UP or UP24 fitness trackers, the killer combo nails sleep monitoring and step storing. But now Jawbone wants to become even more effective at tracking what we all eat too in a bid to become the ultimate quantified self brand. Today Jawbone announced that the latest version…
Heart rate sensors could be added to car seats to prevent accidents
Researchers from Nottingham Trent University are working on a study that could make in-built car seat heart rate sensors a reality. The Technology Strategy Board, which offers funding to help businesses bring innovative concepts to market, has awarded £88,318 to a feasibility study by the university’s Advanced Textile Research Group, led by Professor Tilak Dias…
Tiny powder electrodes could power tech for longer
We’re all asking more from our gadgets these days: not only do we want the best, fastest specs on the biggest, clearest screens, we don’t want to lose the use of our smartphone several times a day while we wait for the blooming thing to charge up. Again. Until now, companies have responded by adding…
Apple’s CarPlay is coming to the VW
Apple is in talks with a number of new car manufacturers to bring iOS to our daily driving experiences. The latest brand to sign up? Well, it looks like Apple is making its way into Volkswagen and VW is in talks for this to happen in its 2016 models. Mark Gurman from 9to5mac says: 'Volkswagen’s VW line, one of the…
Friends are genetically similar, says study
Next time someone rejects your offer of friendship on Facebook or (god forbid), IRL, don’t feel too bad: it might not be your looks or personality they found offensive, but your genome. A new US study claims that friends are more genetically similar than strangers. Researchers looked at tissue samples of around 2000 people from…
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 sales are slipping
Samsung vs Apple is a debacle we would all like to move on from, but in those few words it is hard to forget that if its not a courtroom brawl between these two smartphone giants then it is more than likely a sales brawl. In recent reports of Q2 sales for 2014, Samsung is…
Are we all becoming social media engagement show-offs, like Cheryl?
Cheryl Cole enjoys stirring up the celeb press and working her massive fan-base into a totally frenzy with unexpected Instagram photos, announcements and airy-fairy Pinterest-style quotes. Remember the infamous 'OMG WTF?!' shot of her rose tattoo? (Which seems to have been removed from her Instagram account and that of her tattoo artist?!)? The weird cryptic messages?…
Google hires super hackers to protect you
Google, a present day supergiant we all know and probably deal with daily has launched a super hacker team to work on its illusive 'Project Zero'. Google announced only yesterday that it has put together a project in the search to reduce the amount of 0 days vulnerabilities floating around cyber space, in the article itself Google says;…
