The whole point of social media is keep everyone connected and help you expand your number of friends and acquaintances, yet the new service named Cloak is turning the concept on its head and is aimed at helping you avoid everyone. Created by the programmer Brian Moore and the former... Read more

The National Security Agency has fought long and hard to keep its secrets under wraps. Thanks to Edward Snowden, some of them are now no longer a secret but perhaps one of the more strange enigmas surrounding the agency is how much water its brand new data centre uses. Officials... Read more

Surely real life Mario-kart would be horrendously dangerous and crazy, right?  Shooting turtle shells at other cars must be a breach of traffic laws, not to mention potential harassment from Greenpeace!  However, Remi Gaillard from France has created extreme street go-carting in Tokyo and is now a growing tourist ‘must-see’... Read more

If you use Twitter and/or Facebook, it’s only natural every once in a while to want to vent about your frustrations. It doesn’t matter if you have two followers on Twitter or if you have thousands of friends on Facebook – a bad day is a bad day when it’s... Read more

Founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has criticized the National Security Agency and has hinted at future leaks in a Skype interview held at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, U.S.A.  Assange, who is currently residing in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, did not give any details at all about what may be... Read more

Have you ever-needed specific images for something and didn’t quite know where to look?  Well my friends, the search is over as the world’s largest photo agency, Getty Images, has made a massive amount of its library free to use, in an effort to combat online piracy. Millions of images,... Read more

As everyone awaits the official release of the new HTC One, the leaks and rumours surrounding the latest flagship handset are coming thick and fast. Another leak from @evleaks has posted on Twitter what looks like a press image, showing a funky new cover that displays information by the use... Read more

Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, is investigating reports that Dell is charging users with new computers to install Firefox.  Reports from one user, who informed the Register website that he was asked to pay £16.25 ($27.25) to have the browser installed on his PC.  Mozilla Firefox is free, open-sourced... Read more

I can still hear the sound of the Tyrannosaurus Rex stomping towards the 10,000 volt electrical fence that is no longer operational.  The water in the glass vibrates as Lexi shivers in fear and panic.  Enter the tri-toed claw on the top of the fence.  The once bleating goat disappears... Read more

Notorious Edward Snowden, known as a National Security Agency (NSA) informer in the US, will join this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival roster of speakers in Austin Texas. Snowden ran from the US in June, taking with him, top-secret documents.  However, he will appear through a teleconference next... Read more

The latest images leaked by @Evleaks reveals that Samsung will likely be sticking with the design trait that can already be seen on the NotePRO and TabPRO Android tablets; faux leather. Love it or hate it, the look has certainly become a firm fixture for the company, which also chose... Read more

Microsoft Webmail users can finally use Skype on Outlook.com as the feature is fully rolled out globally to all users, after a year of preview testing.  A senior product-marketing manager for Skype, Karen Tong, stated in a 4 February blog post that Skype for Outlook.com was live worldwide, following a staggered rollout... Read more

She is known for her amazing dance moves and generous attitude but now her face is plastered across Twitter for literally the entire world to see!  It’s Ellen DeGeneres and the most popular selfie tweet in all of Twitter History!  Ellen DeGeneres has officially had the most retweeted post since... Read more

‘Winocm’ is a well-known hacker of iOS and OS X. He is responsible for single-handedly rewriting the core of both these operating systems.  He did this to allow them to be ported to other devices.  ‘Winocm’ has contributed to various jailbreak applications for iPhones, but it seems as though he... Read more

Most all of us learn the proper etiquette for crossing the street when we are young children. You know the rules – be sure to look both ways before you cross, make sure it is safe to cross in the first place, etc. And, depending on where you lived as... Read more

Last week Facebook announced that it is acquiring the messaging company WhatsApp for an approximate total of $16 billion. Included in the deal is $4 billion in cash, $12 billion of Facebook shares and an extra $3 billion in restricted stock units which will be granted to WhatApp’s founders and... Read more

This year has seen some of the worst flooding in decades, within the UK.  Many people have been getting involved with trying to find a solution to this problem.  The technology community is no different.   Using government data, volunteers from the tech community are trying to design and create a variety... Read more

Microsoft started the year with a move that proved to be followed by many other changes, in particular, I’m referring to its January announcement that its cloud storage service SkyDrive would be rebranded to OneDrive. While I personally think there is nothing wrong with the SkyDrive branding, Microsoft ran into... Read more