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What Does the First Lab-Grown Burger Taste Like?
Internet August 7, 2013
The first lab-grown burger was cooked and eaten at a live event in London earlier this week, in what is a major step forward towards making food grown from stem cells a sustainable solution to the world’s growing demand for food. Volunteers who tasted it said it is remarkably... Read more
Harvard Scientists Develop Animal Mind Control
Internet August 7, 2013
All those tales of human-animal telepathy and being able to control an animal with your thoughts may soon become reality, with the help of a new brain-to-brain interface (BBI) developed by Harvard scientists. The interface was created by a team led by radiology assistant professor Seung-Schik Yoo and used... Read more
The United States government has successfully removed one of the Internet’s largest child pornography websites, following a program that cracked security on a service that enables anonymous Internet browsing and site hosting. Security expert Brian Krebs reports that United States authorities were able to explore software behind a site hosted by... Read more
The U.S. will finally get their first bullet trains, as a California high-speed rail line project is expected to break ground this summer. The new line, scheduled to be completed in 2029, will allow passengers to ride travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours... Read more
Google Adds Touch-Friendly Features to Chrome
Internet August 6, 2013
Now that Google has released its own touchscreen Chromebook Pixel and a range of Windows 8 machines, the need for Chrome to have touch features has increased. It would appear that Google have been preparing a number of touch-friendy features for its Chrome browser, after the latest nightly Canary... Read more
Glassware Developer Says Glass Made Him A Better Driver
Internet August 6, 2013
Although Google Glass is not yet for sale to the general public and there has been no official announcement regarding date or pricing, there are a bunch of people who have the device for beta testing, to try and help Google improve it. These are the people that have... Read more
Wireless Charging Available At Starbucks
Internet August 5, 2013
Recently we announced that Google have said it will be the company that provides WiFi connectivity to Starbucks customers across the coffee chain’s 7,000 locations in the USA. Almost coinciding with this, those wonderful coffee people have taken the next step towards being a technology friendly place to drink, eat,... Read more
Has The Motorola Moto X Fallen Flat?
Internet August 5, 2013
I suppose that it really is too soon to give the verdict on the Moto X. After all, it hasn’t been more than a week since Motorola’s new smartphone was announced. While the select few have been given a better view of the Moto X, the general public still... Read more
With three months to go until the Xbox One is officially out, Microsoft apparently still have some aces up their sleeve, in their efforts to ensure supremacy for their new console over its biggest rival, the PlayStation 4 from Sony. New reports suggest the Xbox One lifespan was designed... Read more
Social media giant, Twitter, is adding a few nifty new features and will clarify a few of its rules in response to recent rape threats, bomb threats, and other general abuses that has hit the site, of recent times. Specifically involving European authors, journalists and Members of Parliament. Albeit,... Read more
Google to Supply WiFi At Starbucks
Internet August 4, 2013
United States telecommunications provider AT&T, has been supplying WiFi to Starbucks coffee house locations in the United States of America for years. But, sadly for them, all that is about to change though, as Internet supremo Google have recently announced that it will be the company that provides WiFi... Read more
Microsoft will change the name of its cloud storage service, Skydrive, following a legal challenge from BSkyB. A High Court judge ruled that the name infringed on BSkyB’s trademark and said that there was evidence that Skydrive’s name had resulted in confusion amongst the general public. Although Microsoft were... Read more
Internet music streaming service, Spotify, more than doubled revenues in 2012 to 435 million euros ($577 million) due to its expansion to new markets and with it, it almost doubled its user base, documents have shown on Wednesday. The Stockholm-based business, which provides a free on-demand music service with... Read more
Scientists Freeze Light for a Minute
Internet August 3, 2013
It turns out that the fastest known thing in the universe, light, can in fact be stopped. A German team of scientists have successfully stopped light from traveling for a whole minute. The record-breaking event could be a major breakthrough in the field of quantum memory storage. So how... Read more
Facebook Considers Profile Photos For Facial Recognition
Internet August 3, 2013
Facebook is taking into consideration the possibility of incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members’ profile photos into its growing facial recognition database and thus expanding the entire scope of the social network’s controversial technology. This move, which Facebook has revealed in a revise to its data use policy... Read more
Samsung have been accused of designing the Galaxy S4 chip to perform better in tests done by reviewers than in real-life situations. The tests involved the Samsung-designed Exynos 5 Octa chip used in South Korean and other international versions of the handset. It was first discovered by a contributor... Read more
Dell Project Ophelia Ships to Beta Testers
Internet August 2, 2013
PC market giant Dell, appears as though they are now looking to kill the traditional desktop as the company has just shipped to beta testers the first of its Project Ophelia device. Ophelia is an over-sized USB stick that turns any HDMI-capable screen into a computer running off the... Read more
The National Secuirty Agency (NSA) has a top secret program called XKeyscore, according to new leaks from Edward Snowden. Essentially, the program tracks everything you do on the internet including your browsing history, emails, online chats and metadata. These reports come as a follow up piece from The Guardian,... Read more