The controversy caused by the removal of many links from Google has led to some of them now being reinstated. The issue came about thanks to the internet giant starting to comply with the European Court of Justice “right to be forgotten” ruling. The initial batch of removed links, to articles in the Guardian newspaper and other sites, included details on the former...
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Google TV looked like a good idea when it was first announced a few year ago so what went wrong? More importantly, what has changed since then to make Android TV from Google something that it more likely to be successful? The plans for Google TV were unveiled a long time ago now but it never really took off in the way that the internet giant expected it to. However, there...
It has been reported that both Google and Microsoft will be adding kill switch functionality to their future phones. This change would ensure that Android and Windows phones could be made utterly useless if they are stolen. Of course, the idea is that this stops people from stealing them in the first place. The figures on mobile phone theft across the world are pretty...
So, Facebook is going to bring out a new photo-messaging app, is it? We know this not because of a press conference that they held or because of a press release they issued. Oh no, we need about this app because they put it on release in the Apple App Store by mistake. Thankfully, some people took screenshots of it before the error was spotted and it was taken off the...
It’s not often that the release of a mobile app leads to the streets of major cities being blocked by furious taxi drivers, is it? Not every app is Uber, though. This new low-cost fare app was first launched back in 2009 and now works in over 70 cities in 37 countries across the planet. Basically, it is designed to connect passengers to drivers in these places. It uses...
Just when you wondered how else Facebook could make itself a part of your life, it is now going to bring out a mobile app that listens to your music or whatever you are listening to on the TV. The idea is that the app tries to recognise a show or a song and then gives the user the option of publishing the information it brings up on their profile or else for certain friends...
Michael Jackson got a standing ovation at the recent Billboard Music Awards, but that wasn’t the strangest part of the performance. The weirdest part of the whole thing is that the singer died in 2009. However, for four minutes the deceased King of Pop danced, sung and even did the moonwalk up on the stage. The weird show was thanks to the use of a hologram of Michael...
Any speaker inspired by Leonardo da Vinci has got to be worth taking a look at, hasn’t it? In this case, the Vitruvio speaker has been designed by Giorgio Bonagruo and Juan Soriano Blanco. It is based on the famous Vitruvian Man drawing by the artist. The iconic image of a spread-eagled man established the proportions of the male body and was the most anatomically correct...
Could a simple USB flash driver be the solution that allows millions of people to revive old computers and get an extremely low cost computing experience? The plan comes from a start-up company called Keepod. The people behind it are called Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi. Their idea is to providing an operating system which comes on a cheap USB stick. Keepod has been launched...
The latest new piece of police technology could be set to cause a fair bit of controversy. Met Police officers in London are all set to start using cameras on their uniforms to capture images from crime scene. The plan is also to use these body cameras to increase levels of transparency and to help get convictions get pushed through more quickly. To start with, 500 of...