
Australian businessman Alan Bond dies aged 77
Australian business tycoon Alan Bond died today after complications from open heart surgery. He was 77. Following open...
Australian business tycoon Alan Bond died today after complications from open heart surgery. He was 77. Following open...

No DirectX 12 for Windows 7
It's bad news if you're a die hard gamer and love your Windows 7 installation. AMD's Chief Gaming Scientist Richard...
It's bad news if you're a die hard gamer and love your Windows 7 installation. AMD's Chief Gaming Scientist Richard...

Today, Facebook has suffered the longest outage in history, with many countries around the world affected by the issue. On opening facebook.com the error message "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.". The outage lasted for approximately 20 minutes! Mark Zuckerberg has been famously quoted stating Facebo...

Articles around the web have started popping up, stating that the U.S. National Security Agency knew about the Heartbleed bug for more than 2 years. While OpenSSL is funded by an open-source community that devote their time to develop the library, NSA devote millions of dollars for hunting backdoors and exploits that can be used to their advantage in gainin...

Microsoft has announced today that the 44-year-old Satya Nadella has been appointed successor to Steve Ballmer as the new chief executive officer, effective immediately. Indian-born Nadella is the third CEO of the technology giant; he joined Microsoft in 1992 and has degrees in electronics, computer science and business administration. Satya was the head...

Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds met an unwelcoming message on their website after a hacker was able to deface the website with a spoof image showing the NSA logo superimposed over one of the Angry Birds and the title "Spying Birds". The defacement followed news of Rovio sharing confidential data from its customers to the NSA and GCHQ. Rovio insiste...

ISPs in 2011 were ordered to block access to internet addresses linking to The Pirate Bay. A court in Hague, Holland has reversed the decision on the basis it had not been proven effective against reducing copyright infringement. The anti-piracy group Brein will now face paying the ISPs legal costs of around 400,000 euro. It should be noted that The P...

Last year the South-Korean high-tech giant Samsung released their high-end TV, the UN85S9. This amazing home-screen is described by resellers with the bombastic title "85-inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz 3D Smart LED", mostly to justify the unreal price tag $39,999.99. According to the official specifications, the “S9 4K Ultra HD TV” boasts four times the resoluti...

Sometimes it can be really difficult to find useful apps on the Android Market due to all of the spam, so we have compiled a short-list of 5 useful Android applications. #1: Aquarium Pocket Guide (APG) If you're a hobby or professional fish keeper, APG will be a perfect addition to your Android app installs. When you're out and about and spot a fish you ...

A new theme park that is currently being built in China is said to have plans for some never seen before attractions. One of the attractions is a full sized replica of the Titanic and will simulate the sinking of the ship. The ship will be fitted with a simulation technology, using motion and sound effects it will allow several hundred people at once to exp...

Have you ever wanted to run your own factory? uArm is an 4-axis parallel-mechanism, Arduino powered robotic arm developed by uFactory and funded on KickStarter. uArm cannot really be compared with an industrial robotic arm, but it can be a lot of fun, use it to hold a light over your desk, pass you a pen, write down your documents, play against you at c...

Cody Walker, younger brother of Paul Walker has decided to join Reach Out Worldwide; a foundation that was founded by Paul Walker in 2010 to help victims of natural disasters. Cody will join ROWW as Brand Manager he has posted on Facebook. "I look forward to working with like-minded individuals and partners to ensure ROWW continues to aid those in need ...

Have you just bought yourself a new computer or laptop that comes with Microsoft Windows 8 pre-installed and finding yourself searching for the classic windows start menu? For many users of Microsoft Windows, it is vital that there is a windows start menu; you either love it or hate it, but for most it is a requirement. Windows 8 took a touch-screen appr...

One of the biggest problems of today is hard-drive storage, you can buy yourself a 1 terabyte hard-drive, but you are still sure to run out of storage sooner or later. Windows Vista, 7 and Windows 8 all share a similar problem, by default Microsoft Windows will store backups of updates and numerous other things that are otherwise useless and they are not ma...

A recent Gmail update will allow users of Google+ to send emails to your Gmail account without knowing your email address. What this means is that you are more likely to begin receiving unwanted emails from random strangers. The messages will arrive in your Gmail inbox just like any other email; the good news is your email address will not be visible and th...

Whether you are chatting with your friends on IRC or posting photos on Facebook, sometimes it is nice to know you are doing so anonymously. Becoming anonymous on the internet is not always easy. It often involves using proxies or virtual private connections; however, there are pieces of software available that can allow you to mask your identity. Why wou...

Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford has stated he will not be leaving to join Microsoft. CEO Steve Ballmer stated in August that he would be leaving Microsoft within 12 months. Mr Mulally, credited with reviving Ford has been reported as one of the candidates to replace Microsoft's CEO Mr Ballmer. "You don't have to worry about me leaving," Mr Mulally told ...

LG has demonstrated a simple way to find content on their smart TVs using webOS operating system. LG states the webOS user interface represents "a new paradigm" for smart TVs. The user interface features sliding car graphics. It is powered by software originally developed for Palm smartphones, which LG bought from its previous owner Hewlett Packard last ...

Intel has said new laptops featuring 3D depth camera technology will go on sale this year! Intel demonstrated how one of the depth sensors could be used to interpret gesture consoles while separating foreground objects from the background at a press conference in Las Vegas. Intel stated Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo and NEC as the first manufactu...

An announcement has stated a new processor that is destined for mobile devices will offer better graphics than the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. Jen-Hsun Huang added while the chip outperformed last-gen consoles, it requires only 5% of their power. The Tegra K1 features 192 GPU cores based on the Kepler technology and will be released in two variants: a q...
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