Anyone who bought the fake antivirus Virus Shield app from Google’s Play Store will get their money back. The app reached number in the Google charts after it was downloaded more than 10,000 times. However, researchers from the Android Police site checked it out and discovered that it was completely useless. It Didn’t Do Anything Useful After checking out the code...
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You’ve heard of printers. You’ve probably even got one or two in your house. Then there are 3D printers. You’ve heard of them as well, haven’t you? That’s right: these are the bad boys that can print off stuff like guns and food and new legs. Ah, but you won’t have heard of a flying 3D printer before now, will you? Designers from Imperial College in London...
Why would anyone attack another person just for wearing Google glasses? The truth of the matter is that we have no idea why either. However, it has now happened twice in San Francisco. In fact, it appears that anti-Google feelings are running high in the Golden Gate City, with users of these glasses being visible targets. The first known victim was the tech writer Sarah...
A new report suggests that using a smartphone for too long could be damaging to your eyes. The suggestion comes following a survey of around 2,000 phone users, which was carried out by a group of independent opticians. The survey results revealed that the average smartphone user looks at the screen for almost 7 hours each day and feels anxious when they don’t have their...
If you needed to test out some protective suits and Army equipment how would you do it? You would build a blooming expensive robot mannequin, wouldn’t you? Go on, you know you would really. The good news is that the Ministry of Defence think in the same way. They have just revealed a robot which cost £1 million. For that sort of money you would expect your army robot...
The idea of cows hooked up to the internet sounds just a little bit silly, doesn’t it? After all, it sounds as though it involves a bunch of heifers looking up bargains on eBay or checking out their field on Google Earth. However, it is a bit more sensible than it sounds, unfortunately. A bunch of Scottish dairy farmers have connected their bovine buddies to the web...
How often have you wanted to chat with a friend using your iPhone but not been able to because you aren’t connected to the internet and don’t even have network coverage? Well, the new and free FireChat app could be just what you need. This app works by using an iOS feature which allows the user to set up their own mini network. When you open up the app you get put...
The announcement of Google’s Android Wear platform was recently made, at the same time as the unveiling of the first products to use it. Both of the new gadgets are smart watches. LG will bring out one called the G Watch and the offering from Motorola will be called the Moto 360. Two Different Looks As of yet, we don’t know a great deal about either of these smart...
Worrying news has revealed that hundreds of thousands of home routers have been take over by hackers. The total number of routers over the planet which are said to have been attacked runs to over 300,000. This issue has come about become of a loophole in their core software which the hackers have taken advantage of. The huge network of hacker routers was discovered by...
Haven’t there been times in your life when a social media lie detector could have come in handy? Of course there have been. Well, there is a project underway – called Pheme – which could be just what you need. The work is being carried out at the University of Sheffield and was partially inspired by the London riots in 2011. The idea is that the system will work...