In the spirit of making problems go away, sometimes you want to just launch a particular person/problem into the sun. So—could you? And just how big would the canon need to be? Read more…
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Could You Launch Someone Into the Sun With a Big Enough Cannon?
‘Completely flat’, ‘like Android’, ‘Microsoft-flat’ etc., etc., etc. The talk about how Apple are going to ‘flatten out’ their UI style has set the rumour-mills ablaze with completely spurious conjecture. So I thought I’d add to it. However, let’s approach this not from ‘what one insider source told someone’ but instead from evidence of progression within some of the top iOS apps. Read more…
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Almost Flat: The Future of iOS Design?
If Google thinks any of its new Google Glass owners have been flogging them on eBay or loaning them their to friends it has the right to remotely deactivate the tech spectacles, according to the Ts & Cs in the contract this first wave of buyers have agreed to. More »
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Google Bans Selling or Lending of Glass
The new BlackBerry ecosystem has failed the UK government’s high security testing. James Bond isn’t getting a Z10 any time soon. More »
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BB10 Fails the UK Government’s High Security Testing
It seems like these days I can’t eat breakfast without reading about some new encryption app that will (supposedly) revolutionize our communications — while making tyrannical regimes fall like cheap confetti. More »
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Which Encryption Apps Are Strong Enough to Help You Take Down a Government?
And not just a tennis ball from 15 miles away, but a tennis ball 15 miles away and moving at three times the speed of sound . That’s the sort of sensitivity the radar operators on the UK’s HMS Iron Duke will have the chance to work with when it returns to service next year. More »
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This Warship Radar Can Detect a Tennis Ball From 15 Miles
Huawei could add a waffle-maker to its Ascend P2, and I doubt even that would be enough to pull people over to its side of the phone stores. Unlike the Ascend D2 unveiled at CES, there’s no 3,000mAh battery lurking here (you’ll have to “make do” with a 2420 one), but there’s a CAT 4LTE chipset, meaning 4G speeds can reach 150Mbps (the iPhone 5 and S3 LTE only have CAT 3, FYI). More »
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Huawei Claims It Has the World’s Fastest 4G Phone—But Who Really Cares?
3-D printers can produce gun parts, aircraft wings, food and a lot more, but this new 3-D printed product may be the craziest thing yet: human embryonic stem cells. Using stem cells as the “ink” in a 3-D printer, researchers in Scotland hope to eventually build 3-D printed organs and tissues. A team at Heriot-Watt University used a specially designed valve-based technique to deposit whole, live cells onto a surface in a specific pattern. More »
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A 3D Printer That Generates Human Embryonic Stem Cells
The Anonymous hacking collective has petitioned the White House, using the US government’s open forum to ask for DDoS attacks to be registered as an official form of complaint – and requesting the convictions of previous DDoS attackers be wiped from their records. More »
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Anonymous Wants DDoS Recognised as an Official Form of Protest
Apple must have heaved a great sigh of relief when it heard its Christmas wish had been answered—Installous, the jailbroken iOS app pirating app from the Hackulous community, was finally dead . But not so fast, Apple. Now anyone can install pirated apps, and without having to jailbreak too. More »
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You Can Now Pirate Apps On Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking