Month: March 2015
Why are all of the Twitter profiles blue? Millionaire musicians appropriate the language of charity to promote more expensive alternative to Spotify
Forget Spotify - why not pay double for a nominally higher quality audio service instead? That's the message being sent out by a bunch of popular celebrities on the Twitters today. You may have noticed that a bunch of famous names that the kidz like, including Kanye West, Rihanna and Madonna have all turned their…
Developer annoyed by Instagram’s Layout app stealing his name
Mike Swanson is an independent developer who in 2012 published an app called "Layout", which lets you combine multiple photos into one. Fast-forward to 2015 and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook, don't forget) publishes a new app that lets you combine multiple photos into one, and called it... Umm... Layout. As you might expect,…
Apple’s new patent that could be a big feature of the iPhone 7
So how do you improve the iPhone? Better battery life? Even faster processors? Well one way that the Cupertino giant could enhance the phone and keep one step ahead of its rivals is to improve the camera. So some interesting news today picked up by Apple Insider that the company has been awarded a new…
Angry Birds Friends to go offline for WWF Earth Hour
It's WWF's Earth Hour this Saturday (28th March) - when the clocks go forward in the UK. To mark Rovio and WWF's continued partnership, Angry Birds Friends is going offline for one hour starting at 8.30pm EET (6.30pm GMT). To help raise awareness and encourage work to stop climate change, Rovio is also running a…
WATCH: New “Red Awakening” gameplay
A new shooter is coming soon to the PS4, Xbox One and PC but there's a bit of a difference: Rather than outgun your opponents, the focus is instead on stealth. Red Awakening is cell-shaded and apparently takes its inspiration from John Carpenter slasher movies. The new gameplay trailer, which you can see above is…
McIntosh Transport launches SACD/CD Transport, MCT450
McIntosh Laboratory has launched the MCT450, a new SACD/CD transport designed to deliver optimum sound quality from CD and SACD music collections (£4,495). It has been engineered to deliver the optimum performance from CD and SACD media when partnered with its digital-input McIntosh stablemates, including select A/V processors, integrated amplifiers and preamplifiers. The MCT450 offers digital balanced (24-bit/192kHz), coaxial (24-bit/96kHz),…
Google launches Chrome “Data Saver” extension
If you tether your computer to your phone a lot, then you'll know that the full-size web can often be a drain on precious bandwidth - but luckily Google may have found the solution. What the extension does is when you navigate to a webpage, it will send the data to Google's servers and crunch…
YouTube is testing 4K video at 60fps
Want to know how good video is going to look in a few years time? Then check out this video, if your computer is capable of running it. As spotted by Engadget, these volcano videos are the first on the site to work at both 4K resolution and at 60fps. Previously YouTube has supported both…
VW invests in solid state battery technology for super long range electric cars
Above: a VW hybrid, the XL1. New solid state technology could mean that we see electric versions of VW vehicles with 400 mile plus range One of the disappointments of electric cars is that they need to be recharged a lot - not great when you consider the lack of car charging points around the…
Hailocab tries to convince people that talking to cab drivers is a plus point
Taxi app Hailocab is worried. Whilst it relies on expensive and well organised black cab drivers for its services, rival Uber (controversially) does away with the formalities, employing cheaper drivers. Worse still, one of the key investors is Google, which is working on driverless car technology, which could conceivably ultimately make Uber even cheaper and…
