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Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Best Software Aug 28, 2024

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

News Aug 24, 2024

Windows 11 Control Panel will be removed soon Microsoft has confirmed it will remove Control Panel from Windows 11. This has been coming for a long time, since 2015 to be precise. A recent update to a document on Microsoft’s website reveals that the legacy app is being deprecated, in…

July 6 Tech news roundup: Netflix is discontinuing its Basic Ad-free plan, Authy suffers another security breach, Google Translate supports 110 new languages

News Jul 6, 2024

Microsoft’s Weather app is displaying more ads Microsoft has made a server-side update to its Weather app. The desktop app, which is pre-installed in Windows 11, now displays multiple advertisements. This is not the first time that the Redmond company has made such a change, it did something similar last…

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Digital Sundial Made From Metal Plates Tracks The Sun’s Angle

News March 20, 2014

In this day and age you normally only see sundials as a feature at stately homes or historic buildings; they just can’t compare to the accuracy of atomic clocks. However, a Toronto-based artist has created the coolest looking sundial, made from metal plates. The Sun Cube is made up... Read more

Hang Your Clothes With Magnetic Cliq Hangers

News March 19, 2014

When you stop to think about it, clothes hangers in general are pretty standard. They either come in wood, plastic, metal, or something similar. Overall, they are all pretty bland and boring – there’s not much creativity when it comes to a hanger. And really, I guess there doesn’t... Read more

Bug Fixes For The Latest MusicBee Update

News March 19, 2014

MusicBee is a way to organize, find and play your music. Integrating with Last.fm and popular music blogs, this software offers you an opportunity to keep up with the latest music, while giving you the tools needed to create playlists and categorize your collection in the way you want.... Read more

Scientists Create Real Life ‘Doc Ock’ Arms

News March 19, 2014

Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius, also known as Doc Ock, the super villain, may soon become a reality!!! Maybe in the future, Spider-Man may have many highly intelligent mad scientists attacking him on the street. A dangling robot arm that was created to have the agility of an elephant trunk,... Read more

Firefox 28 Released, Windows 8 Metro Excluded

News March 19, 2014

We all have our Internet browser of choice, but the numbers show that Firefox is the second most dominant, second only to Chrome. This data comes from w3schools and is applicable as of January 2014. The trend, however, is the same in the past year. It is thus no... Read more

Pioneering 3D Printing Reshapes Patient’s Face

News March 19, 2014

Imagine being in a traumatic car accident and suffering from wounds that leave you with deformities on your face. This is what happened to survivor, Stephen Power, 29, who experienced a serious motorcycle accident and was left in hospital for 4 months. Despite wearing a helmet, Power still suffered... Read more

Scientists Hack Plants With Nanotubes To Create Super Plants

News March 19, 2014

Scientists have been able to turn an ordinary plant into one that is supercharged by inserting nanomaterials into the energy-producing structures within the plant. The team tripled a plant’s energy-producing potential when they used carbon nanotubes to enhance the photosynthetic ability of chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are the cellular factories that... Read more

WiTricity Develop Wireless Electricity

News March 18, 2014

Dr Katie Hall is developing ways to transfer power without wires. As part of a crude experiment, she filled a tiny room with gigantic copper refigerator coils. In the middle of the room was a light bulb. Incredibly it lit up the room despite the fact that there were... Read more

Graphene Based Flash Drives That Look Like Sticky Notes

News March 18, 2014

Designers have come up with a theoretical design that could radicalize the way we store our data. If you’re anything like me, you probably have hundreds of those little thumb drives and can never remember what is stored on which drive. However, in the future we could potentially store... Read more

Lego Robot Smashes Rubik’s Cube World Record

News March 17, 2014

I absolutely loved lego when I was a kid but what I built was nothing compared to what two British engineers have created. The Cubestormer 3 robot was built by David Gilday and Mike Dobson and has just smashed the world record for completing a Rubik’s Cube. In just... Read more

Microsoft Entices Users To Upgrade To Windows 8.1 With $50 Gift Card

News Windows March 17, 2014

While talk about Microsoft working on a free version of Windows 8.1 is going around – which is good press, definitely – the company is not yet done with its campaign to get loyal Windows XP users to upgrade. (By the way, have you seen the warning popup on... Read more

3D Acoustic Cloak Can Hide Objects From Sound

News March 17, 2014

Underwater invisible super lairs may be just around the corner! Duke engineers have created the first 3D acoustic cloak. This device can reroute sound waves which makes it seem as if the cloak, and whatever is beneath it, is not there. All it took to make was a few... Read more

Opera 20.0.1387.77 Removes CSP 1.1 Due To Security Issues

News March 17, 2014

There has been a silent update of Opera 20, which may have gone unnoticed but it sees some interesting security changes. The first change is to what is known as the ‘badge’, or the icon that sits to the left of the address field. Opera 20 was given an... Read more

The Ski Helmet That Knows When It’s Time To Be Replaced

News March 17, 2014

Helmets are funny things – especially the ones used while skiing. They’re great, of course, because they protect your head and all, but how do you know when it’s time to replace your trusty helmet? It’s not like you put it on and all of a sudden realize it’s... Read more

Facial Recognition Technology Could Detect Angry Drivers

News March 17, 2014

A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have said that irritated drivers tend to be more aggressive and less attentive. They are working on a concept to embed facial recognition technology into steering wheels, detecting when the driver is upset or angry. The... Read more

Get Ultimate Secure Passwords With Winfrasoft PinGrid

News March 16, 2014

Everyone has lots of passwords to remember these days. The advent of the Internet brought with it all sorts of security problems for its users. Not to worry though, as soon we may have a secure solution to our password problems in the form of Winfrasoft’s PinGrid. Why is... Read more

Keep Your Child Safe With hereO, The GPS Watch

News March 16, 2014

A child disappearing has to be every parent’s nightmare. There are a few child-tracking devices out there already but the hereO GPS watch has an advantage over the others, in that it looks funky and cool, so most kids will love wearing it. HereO has been designed small enough... Read more