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YouTube 2014 Rewind Has Katy Perry Taking Out Top Music VIdeo for 2014

It's that time of the year again, with New Year's Eve quickly approaching, Google have released the YouTube 2014 Rewind. Check out the video on it below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKx2B8WCQuw You might be surprised with ...

9 years ago

McDonald’s to Introduce Touchscreen Ordering in the US

By the end of 2015, McDonald’s hopes to introduce ‘Create Your Own Taste’ touchscreen ordering kiosks in 2,000 of its US restaurants. The touchscreen interface allows customers to customise their order; want a Quarter Pounder ...

9 years ago

MasterCard Teams Up With… Gwen Stefani for Apple Pay and ‘Priceless Surprises’

I don't even know how to feel about this after Paul McCartney was singing as a hologram for Destiny, the game, but here we are - Gwen Stefani has teamed up with MasterCard to show off Apple Pay and MasterCard's latest technology. ...

9 years ago

iOS 8.1.2 Update Released

Apple has just released iOS 8.1.2 with bug fixes and help for those who lost ringtones downloaded from iTunes. The software, which carries a build number of 12B440, resolves an issue where ringtones purchased from iTunes were ...

9 years ago

Scared of the Next Heartbleed? Dashlane Can Change Your Passwords Easily

After the Heartbleed bug decimated OpenSSL security across the web, users are understandably fearful of a reprisal. As a preventative measure, Dashlane are releasing a tool to allow users to reset passwords for up to 75 popular ...

9 years ago

Battery Startup Given $17 Million Boost, Lead by Samsung

Battery startup Seeo, of Hayward, California, has secured a $17 million Series E investment in the latest round of funding, lead by Samsung Ventures, and featuring contributions from existing investors Khosla Ventures and GSR ...

9 years ago

Apple Fighting to Prevent Release of Steve Jobs Deposition

The Associated Press, CNN and Bloomberg have filled a motion to have the video deposition of Steve Jobs released from the ongoing iPod lawsuit. The publications are in a battle against Apple's lawyers who are actively seeking it ...

9 years ago

Dish Disables its Ad-Skipping Feature After Pressure from CBS

Satellite TV reception provider Dish has removed the ad-skipping feature from its digital video recorder (DVR) box after a feud with network television channel CBS. After Dish launched its “AutoHop” feature, which allowed ...

9 years ago

Driveclub PlayStation 4 Review – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Driveclub has been one of the most anticipated PlayStation 4 games since before the console even launched. The game was delayed by nearly a year after the consoles release, which may have done more harm than good. Gamers wanted ...

9 years ago

20th Anniversary PS4 “Accidentally” Sold for $1

Polygon reports that someone "accidentally" ended up selling one of those ultra-rare 20th Anniversary PS4s on eBay for an insane $1. It's not known how eBay seller medman6107 managed to end up pulling off the monumental mistake ...

9 years ago

Comcast Sued For Forcefully Turning Private Routers into Xfinity Hotspots

Comcast is being sued for forcing private routers to become public hotspots. In 2013, Comcast introduced Xfinity hotspots, which used customers’ existing Comcast routers to create a public internet gateway. Though active by ...

9 years ago

FIDO, the Google-Backed Password Killer

Back in October, Google revealed a new USB key log-in system. The key, carrying a data fingerprint specific to the user, only replaced the standard authentication code, as part of Google’s two-step authentication, but it marks a ...

9 years ago

Could This be the End for The Pirate Bay?

Police in Sweden have reportedly taken down popular torrent site The Pirate Bay. The site has also been down today, notable as it is seemingly the first time in months users haven't been able to access it. TorrentFreak is ...

9 years ago

Amazon X-Ray Now Available on Kindle for Android

After being available for Kindle for three years and iPhone and iPads for two years, Amazon’s X-Ray feature has finally made it to Kindle on Android. The X-Ray feature gives users access to encyclopaedic details incorporated into ...

9 years ago

Sony Hackers Release Celebrity Alias Names

The latest haul of Sony Pictures data has revealed a number of interesting celebrity aliases. The aliases are fake names used by celebrities to stay discreet whenever they book hotel rooms or make big purchases for example. The ...

9 years ago

Matrox Releases Two New GPUs for Multi-Display Setups

The players in the graphics card market have changed a lot since the 1990s where Matrox was one of the really big ones. And while Matrox isn't among the high-end gaming consumer cards anymore, they're still around and have recently ...

9 years ago

NEC Announced 3600-Lumen Ultra Short Throw Projector

NEC Display Solutions of America has announced two new ultra-short-throw projectors, the UM351W and UM361X models. The units are created to enrich the classroom learning experience while improving the ability of business ...

9 years ago

Sony Hackers Demand ‘The Interview’ is Pulled

The hackers that brought down Sony Pictures' computer systems, have said that they want the release of 'The Interview' halted. The request to have the movie about the assassination of the North Korean leader pulled from release ...

9 years ago

Marvell Reveal Their Next-Gen SSD Controllers

Marvell has created the World's First DRAM-less NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSD controller for mobile computing solutions. The new controller only measures 8x8mm and by that allows for SSDs as small as M.2 2230 (22 x 30 mm). ...

9 years ago

Finalwire Released AIDA64 v5.00

FinalWire announced the release of version 5.0 in all the AIDA64 software products: Engineer, Extreme, Business and Network Audit. AIDA64 is a very popular piece of software that offers a wide variety of tools for monitoring and ...

9 years ago

New Report Suggests That Smartphone Gaming Will Overtake Console Gaming in 2015?

There’s long been talk of mobile gaming overtaking console gaming but, according to a report by market research firm Newzoo, that day could finally arrive in 2015. The report estimates that mobile games revenue will reach $30.3 ...

9 years ago

Samsung Announces 850 EVO SSD Featuring 3-bit V-NAND

Samsung is finally launching the 850 EVO SSD, the latest addition to its branded solid state drive lineup for consumers. Based on Samsung's 3-bit 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) technology, the 850 EVO SSD should provide a significant ...

9 years ago

In Win D-Frame Mini-ITX Chassis Review

Introduction In Win are back once again with yet another flag-ship chassis to add to their collection. Their new In Win D-Frame Mini isn't exactly a new model altogether, given that a couple of years ago they launched the ...

9 years ago

AMD Catalyst Omega 14.12 Drivers Released

The big AMD graphics driver update we've been eagerly awaiting is finally here! News of these drivers actually broke last week, but today you can actually download the software and reap its rewards. The latest drivers add ...

9 years ago

Smartphone Theft in London Still Frustrating Police, But Slow Progress Being Made

Metropolitan areas in the United States and United Kingdom have struggled to crack down on theft related to smartphones, leading to an increase in theft, robbery, and potential violent incidents. Most of the problems occur from ...

9 years ago

Woman Claims Her Samsung Galaxy Phone Exploded in Flames

  A Canadian woman insists that her bedroom was set on fire by an exploding smartphone. Hope Casserly, a computer science student at the University of Guelph, claims her year-old Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 combusted while she ...

9 years ago

Google Could Soon Have a “Live Translation” Service

After acquiring Quest Visual, a real-time translation application developer who made Word Lens, Google could use them to good effect. The company is rumoured to be working on a new "Live Translation" mode, which would give some ...

9 years ago

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 to be Announced at CES 2015

According to SweClockers.com, NVIDIA is gearing up to launch the GeForce GTX 960, a mid-range video card that will be based on NVIDIA's currently unknown, and never-before-seen, or heard of GM206 core. The GeForce GTX 960 would ...

9 years ago

Hacking Group Threatens to Shut Down Xbox Live “Forever” on XMAS

Imagine all the people signing into Xbox Live over Christmas with their brand new Xbox One consoles, to reach it and see it has been hacked and shut down. This could be the future in just a couple of weeks time, as hacking group ...

9 years ago

President Obama Writes His First Ever Line of Code

Barack Obama just finished his first ever line of code. The "Coder-in-Chief" wrote a line of Javascript with 20 middle school students as part of the Hour Of Code programme by Code.org. Code.org and The Hour of Code was set up ...

9 years ago

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