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North Korea Calls Obama A “Monkey” After Internet Outage
President Obama has probably been called a lot of things since he took office, but I’ve not heard him referred to as a “monkey” until recently, and that insult comes at the hands of North Korea. Tensions have run high between the U.S. and North Korea since Sony Pictures... Read more
Magnetic Mobile System Clipless Available For Online Purchase
They Innovate launched  a successful Kickstarter funded on July 6 2013, has finally made its way onto the online market. Clipless, a magnetic system, allows users to clip their smartphone or tablet onto any type of clothing or wall with relative ease. The Kickstarter raised $43,890, almost double the... Read more
Watch This Kangaroo Knock A Drone Out Of The Sky
I don’t own a drone (I wish I did), but I can imagine just how tempting it would be to film anything and everything, including animals in their natural habitats. A drone offers the possibility to capture all kinds of footage not possible with handheld cameras. After all, there... Read more
Apple Released Auto Update To Fix Security Issue
In the recent wake of news regarding a security flaw that was located in the NTP, Apple has issued their first automatic security update for Mac OS computers. Is this another case of too little too late?after all, researchers are warning about new bugs all the time. Previous to... Read more
Steam Starts Region Locking Games After Low Currency Exploits
Even though Steam regularly offers deals and sales for digital games, some people are not happy with the prices and head over to third party key sellers, for cheaper prices. It looks like Steam is not happy with these key sales from other regions, taking thousands of digital keys... Read more
Check Out The U.S.S. Enterprise in Gingerbread
You know the holiday season is upon us when you start seeing iconic space vehicles recreated in gingerbread, specifically the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek. I have to admit – I enjoyed the movies, but I was never much of a trekkie, but I think even I could get... Read more
Disneyworld To Accept Apple Pay & Google Wallet
Walt Disney World is one place that my wife has always wanted to holidays. Personally, I don’t want to stand in the long queues or drive around endless parking lots. Bu,t one reason I have held off so far is the cash. I really don’t want to have to always... Read more
Grandma Assaulted For Not Friending Granddaughter On Facebook
People are taking their Facebook friends way too seriously these days. I’ve read about some crazy things that happened because of Facebook, but this one almost takes the cake! A 72-year-old woman from Florida was recently slapped in the face over and over by her granddaughter (a 27-year-old) who... Read more
Duck Hunt is Coming Back on Christmas Day!
If you’d like to get a little bit of nostalgia for Christmas this year and you own a Nintendo Wii U, you’ll be able to purchase/download the classic Nintendo game Duck Hunt through the Wii virtual console. Techbeat reported some months ago that the classic game would be rereleased, but... Read more
Google to Include Tegra K1 Processor in Project Ara
Project Ara, the futuristic modular smartphone from the minds of Google, is getting ever closer to its promised 2015 release. The ‘concrete’ information received so far is that you will be able to hot-swap most of the components. These include the camera, RAM and Storage capacity. There are also... Read more
FileZilla 3.10.0 Beta 3 Now Released
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. The FileZilla Application allows you to transfer files and navigate among folders, Web sites, and your computer. A great feature of FileZilla is that you can... Read more
You Can Now Preorder a $30,000 Apple Watch
Everything’s so much better with a little bit of bling added to it, right? Even though the Apple Watch is still forthcoming and we don’t have all of the details we’d like (such as pricing, etc.), it isn’t too early to preorder an extremely blinged-out version of the upcoming... Read more
Volvo Accident Prevention Helmet Concept Announced
The Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has previously shown the world some of their in-car cyclist collision detection systems that help prevent accidents for both parties on the road. It appears as though now the safety conscious Volvo is about to publicly show case a piece of technology for bike... Read more
WhatsApp Potentially Coming to Desktop
WhatsApp is available on almost every mobile platform, including discontinued platforms like Symbian and Nokia Series 40, but has never developed a web client. New reports say WhatsApp will finally come to the desktop, after five years of availability. The new web client will use OAuth, sending a message... Read more
Instagram Purge Spam Accounts
The extremely popular photo-sharing app, Instagram, has erased millions of accounts that they believed to be posting spam. In the process this has angered, nay, outraged many of  the app’s legitimate users. There are many people who have lost a stack of followers who have criticised the action, some have... Read more
Google Adds New SDK on Android & Unity for Cardboard VR
Google is starting to get serious with the Cardboard VR, despite vice president Sundar Pichai brushing it off as a small project worked on for a few hours at Google I/O. A new update to the software side of the virtual reality platform adds developer support for Android and... Read more
And the Top Google Search of 2014 Was…?
People daily search for all kinds of crazy things on Google. Just a quick search of “weirdest Google searches” will bring you up quite a curious list if you ever want to view them for yourself. Towards the end of a year, though, it can be a worthwhile experience... Read more
Windows 10 Leak Reveals Cortana Search Bar, Updated Apps
Microsoft has already shown the groundwork for Windows 10 on the Developer Preview, the new start menu, build in metro-apps on desktop and various interfaces for power users show a gradual move to one OS design for all types of users. The second event for Windows 10 is scheduled... Read more