Month: February 2011
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Assange to be extradited to Sweden
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden, facing allegations of sexual assault, a UK judge has ruled. The public face of the political whistle-blowing website has faced a controversial exile in Britain for the past few months…
iPad 2 in photos: mock-up or leak, you decide
A Japanese blog has posted up some interesting images of what it claims are exact replicas of the next iPad casing. Pictured below, the images show some interesting tweaks for the iPad 2, should they prove to be accurate…
Future Samsung displays to be powered by super-bright quantum dot tech
It's a technology still in its infancy, and at least three years away from making it to a commercial product, but Samsung have revealed that their next generation of displays are to be powered by quantum dot technology. Brighter and…
German PS3 hacker gets raided by Police; Sony bringing the pain to pirates
Sony are really upping their game when it comes to cracking down on the PS3 hackers that are facilitating the burgeoning PlayStation 3 piracy scene. So far in the US it's only resulted in a slap on the wrist…
iPad 1.5 to be released next week, true iPad 2 to follow later in the year?
As well as the usual round of predictions concerning Apple's annual Spring product launch (now including details of a March 2nd media event), there have also been a fair few rumours surrounding production difficulties for the Cupertino company. According to…
Apple send out March 2nd media invites; iPad 2 launch looms
Apple have sent out invites to a media event on March 2nd with imagery that almost certainly suggests the launch of the iPad 2. The Apple-style calendar image (pictured above) has one corner peeled back, showing the top side of…
Say a command: The future of data is the spoken word, judging from Google and Autonomy
According to the Hollywood version of the future, we will eventually interact with computers just by speaking to them. We've come a way from humble beginnings in voice recognition, when cinema information lines kept messing up Brighton and Birmingham,…
iPhone popularity falls in UK following HTC Android onslaught
The iPhone is sliding down the list of most popular smartphones, according to new research by uSwitch.com. Deciding the most popular handsets based on sales as well as web interest and search traffic, the iPhone 4 is now the sixth…
Mobile phone use changes brain activity but damage is uncertain, research finds
Whether or not it's dangerous remains to be proven, but new medical research is clear on one thing: using a mobile phone changes brain activity. According to the US government's National Institutes of Health, using a mobile phone for…
The geekiest of them all: Now you can watch 3D films with a Transformers 3D mask
Let's face it, you were never going to look cool with those silly 3D glasses they give you at the cinema. So you might as well take the power back and geek out in style – yes, by wearing…