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Hemp More Efficient and Cheaper than Graphene

A newly published data set shows that using hemp fibres is a much cheaper way to build super capacitors that perform equal if not better than those made from graphene. Lets get one thing straight right away, we're talking about ...

10 years ago

Criminalised for Receiving Images via WhatsApp

Two young men from the U.K. have been given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £500 for the possession of extreme porn. This in it self is a great thing, things like that need to end. The real bizarre twist of the ...

10 years ago

Kickstarted Potato Salad Joke Turned Charity

I think we all remember the Potato Salad on Kickstarter that made headlines a short while ago. Most people believed the creator Zack “Danger” Brown from Columbus, Ohio would just take the pledges and be a happy man. That is ...

10 years ago

Turn Any YouTube Video into an Animated Gif

This site isn't that new, at least the domain was registered all the way back in 2010, but I hadn't seen or heard of it before. It isn't much in itself, but it's very useful for quickly creating animated memes to bombard your ...

10 years ago

ACER Predator XB280HK Final Details and Dates Revealed

In a press release, Acer Announces Full Line of 4K2K and WQHD Resolution Monitors - Bigger screens, sharper images plus smart colour control and eye protection technologies to provide comfortable viewing. The comprehensive line-up ...

10 years ago

Microsoft Create 3D Depth Sensor from Single-Camera Smartphone

Microsoft are tinkering with camera technology once again. Their Kinect technology may not be a smash hit with consumers as they once hoped it would be, but the underlying technology is not something they're about to give up ...

10 years ago

Creator of Pop-up Add Says Sorry, Blames Its Design on Sex

The pop-up ad may not be as much of a problem these days, especially given that most browsers come with some form of pop-up blocker pre-installed, but back in the early days they were a huge pain in the ass. Pop-ups were everywhere ...

10 years ago

Unreal Engine 4 Marketplace Launched to Compete with Unity

Unreal Engine 4 looks set to compete with Unity by launching its own marketplace, this will offer an easily accessible built-in resource to their engine, allowing people to browse free content that was created by the developers at ...

10 years ago

Windows 9 Preview Expected Next Month

We now for certain now that Microsoft are working hard on the next iteration of their operating system. Windows 8 was great overall, but a PR disaster for the company and with Windows 7 being a pretty solid operating system, people ...

10 years ago

Volkswagens New XL1 Hybrid is Capable of 261 mpg

100 miles per gallon has long been the benchmark which automakers have been working to reach. Volkswagen created their Lupo 3L in 1999 which could hit 78.4 miles on one gallon of diesel, a great achievement. Now with ex Bentley and ...

10 years ago

PlanetSide 2 Creative Director Calls PS4 Audience “Console Peasants”

There has been much talk about PlanetSide 2 coming to the PS4, so it was no surprise that there was a PlanetSide 2 Keynote which also had a nice section for the PS4 Version. Whilst the Creative Director, Matthew Higby, was ...

10 years ago

Apple Bans Two Chemicals Used in Overseas Factories

Apple have many overseas factories, that's for sure, 22 to be exact! Some of the factories have been using very harsh chemicals during production of Apple products, the chemicals in question are benzene and n-hexane, extremely ...

10 years ago

AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC3 Drivers Released – Windows 8 Support Ends

Hooray for new drivers! Good news for AMD fans as they have released their 14.7 RC3 drivers which brings, as always, performance improvements. This one focusing mostly on 4K display issues that people have brought to AMDs ...

10 years ago

Silent Hills – the Horror Game We’ve Been Waiting For

I'm sure by now you've all heard of P.T, short for Playable Teaser, for the PlayStation 4, if you haven't then where have you been!? P.T appears as a demo on the PlayStation Store and is free to download, it's 1.9Gb big and you get ...

10 years ago

Sharks Are Attacking Our Internet

Experts warned this week that the internet could be running out of space, but a far more real threat is something a little different. Sharks, yes you read right. It almost sounds like something out of a James Bond or Austin Powers ...

10 years ago

World of Warcraft 2 Could Be a Possibility

Now not being a World of Warcraft player myself I'm not really excited by this news but there will be millions of players who are very interested about what Blizzard are saying. Game Informer asked WoWs game directer, Tom Chilton, ...

10 years ago

Is Your Potato Chips Bag Spying on You?

Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analysing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover ...

10 years ago

FreeNAS 9.2.1.7 Now Available, Fixes Samba Exploit

At the start of July, the developers of FreeNAS had said that 9.2.1.6 would be the last release prior to 9.3, but sometimes a serious bug needs to be addressed as soon as possible. This was also the case this time with the possible ...

10 years ago

Check Out These Retrotastic Prototypes For Many of Today’s Top Gadgets

  Companies like Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are name to many of the biggest gadgets we use on a daily basis, but they all had to start somewhere. The first prototypes these companies made may now be sleek and well ...

10 years ago

Want to See Everything in No Man’s Sky? Got a Spare 5 Billion Years?

No Man's Sky is already shaping up to be a truly stunning game, but the developers wanted to make it bigger and better than ever, and they have! When the game was first developed it used a 32-bit number to generate all of the ...

10 years ago

Microsoft Caught Running Xbox One Demos on Nvidia PCs, Again.

It wouldn't be the first time we've seen this cropping up at gaming events, but Microsoft should know better by now that they'll get a bucket load trolling from the online communities for it. Microsoft and Sony are once again using ...

10 years ago

Oxford Dictionary Adds Douchbaggery, Adorbs & Many More to Its Collection

The Oxford English Dictionary has done well to avoid many of the new words that litter our vocabulary these days, but as our language is ever evolving and changing, so as the terms that need to be recorded for future generations. ...

10 years ago

Bill Gates Takes The ALC Ice Bucket Challenge, Nominates Three Others

A few days ago Mark Zuckerberg dumped a bucket of ice water on his head to raise awareness ALS awareness. Seems silly but a few days later an donations to the ALS Association are up 1000% percent! For those unaware of ALS, it is ...

10 years ago

Pokémon Trading Card Game Coming to the iPad

The Pokémon Trading Card Game is coming to iPad, according to Josh Wittenkeller on Twitter. The image shows what looks like a version of The Pokémon Trading Card Game being played on a digital table on a white iPad. On the back ...

10 years ago

PNY Has Launched a New Duo-Link USB Flash Drive

PNY Technologies announced the launch of the Duo-Link OTG USB Flash Drive today, available in both 16GB and 32GB capacities. The micro-sized, cap-less swing design of the Duo-Link OTG USB Flash Drive holds both a micro-USB ...

10 years ago

MSI Tease with More X99 Features

MSI RawZ keeps spreading joy around the webs forums with teases of the new X99 motherboards, and this time I found it on our own. The new MSI X99S XPOWER AC will come with Direct USB. This will gives overclockers direct access to ...

10 years ago

Smart Helmet Is Indiegogo’s Fastest Funded Campaign of $1 Million

The world's smartest helmet, the Skully AR-1, is the fastest Indigogo campaign to hit the $1 million donation milestone. Looking at this helmet and what it has to offer, it's really no surprise. They had set a fundraising goal ...

10 years ago

eBay Rumoured to Soon Accept Bitcoins

The Ebay Inc owned PayPal are apparently in talks with Coinbase Inc and other bitcoin transaction providers to integrate the virtual currency within its Braintree payments system. Executives at PayPal, which owns the service that ...

10 years ago

Win a BitFenix Flo Gaming Headset Winner!

It is that awesome time of the week again where I get to give out prizes to lucky eTeknix fans who entered our competitions. This last four weeks we've been running a competition to win a BitFenix Flo Gaming Headset in the colour of ...

10 years ago

ASRock Reveals X99M Killer mATX Motherboard

A couple of days ago ASRock showed us their X99X Killer motherboard, and today they're showing us it's little brother. They being in the mood to share is great for us and we're getting a sneak peak at the ASRock X99M Killer mATX ...

10 years ago

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