Month: January 2015
WATCH: Saints Row meets Top Gear
The new Saints Row stand-alone expansion: "Gat Out of Hell" is out now - and to promote it the developers have created a weird Top Gear parody that sees "The Stag" (geddit?) driving an armchair with mounted machine guns through the streets of London. You can see the parody, which goes on slightly too long,…
WATCH: Bill Gates making Jimmy Fallon drink “poop water”
A few weeks ago we watched Bill Gates drink water made from sewage. Now he's doing it again - but this time he's making US talk show host Jimmy Fallon do it too. Check out the video from his show last night:
Apple’s Tim Cook gets a $6.7m bonus
Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking home a $6.7m bonus this year - as well as a $1.7m salary and $774,176 in "other compensation". Forget belt tightening - he should be switching to sweatpants. According to PhysOrg, the hefty bonus - which works out at about £4.5m - is perhaps due to the iPhone 6…
Three negotiating to buy O2 for £10bn
Its official! The parent company of the Three network, Hutchison Whampoa Limited has entered exclusive negotiations to buy the O2 network from Telefonica for a cool £10bn. So the rumours are true - and the combined companies would create the UK's biggest mobile network - assuming the competition regulators give it the green light. According…
The 12 best movies and TV shows on Amazon Prime Instant Video right now
We now live in a world where there is too much choice for good entertainment - so many great films at the cinema, and so much terrific TV available. What to watch? We're here to help, with some of the best offerings right now on Amazon Prime Instant in the UK. Just a quick tip…
Windows 10: All you need to know
Last night Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 10 - its new operating system for computers, tablets and mobiles. Here's everything you need to know. The Start Menu Is back Microsoft has widely chosen to backtrack on the mess that was Windows 8, and give desktop and laptop users the start menu back. This means no more…
iPad Mini 3 vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0
What's the best 7" tablet? Two of the most popular options are the iPad Mini 3 and Samsung's 7-incher, the Galaxy Tab 4 7.0. But which is best? Screen The Mini 3 has a 7.9" screen, which runs at 2048x1536 - meaning a pixels-per-inch (PPI) of 326. The Tab 4 7.0 has a 7.0" screen,…
Why you shouldn’t get excited about Microsoft’s HoloLens… yet
Last night Microsoft wowed us with a demonstration of a new product it is calling "HoloLens". Check out the video to see what I mean - with virtual screens, data and even Minecraft worlds being overlaid on top of real life. So the premise is pretty clever: Think a combination of an Oculus Rift VR…
Nearly everyone who covered the Windows 10 announcement uses a Mac
Poor Microsoft. Last night at the Windows 10 event, its executives had to look out on this crowd of journalists: (The above photo was taken by James Herring on Twitter). By our count that's pretty much Macbooks all round - though we can also see four Surface Pro 4s, so it isn't all bad. Either…
Does PS4 or Xbox One have the best exclusives?
Still trying to decide between PS4 and Xbox One? Whilst both consoles are very similar they still have a handful of exclusive games each - which could sway your decision. But which games are exclusive, and which matter? To figure this out, we took the top 100 best selling games from last year and compared…
