This might change your mind on whether you want to buy the Samsung or the iPhone. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FBI can now “remotely activate the microphones in phones running Google’s Android software to record conversations”. The FBI have been investing heavily in hackers over the past couple of years to increase their […]
The world’s first lab-grown burger has been cooked and eaten at a news conference in London. Food critics sample the ‘frakenburger’ and explain how realistic the taste is.
Saul Zelaznog from Reno, Nevada thought it would be okay if he ordered, ate and then left without paying the bill at Brewer’s Cabinet restaurant. Unlucky for Zalaznog, the restaurant posted a wanted picture of him on Facebook. Zalaznog was eventually arrested, not specifically for failure to pay the bill, but for violating his probation.
Tianducheng, China is a scale version of Paris, complete with a 107 metre replica of the Eiffel tower. Construction and development of little Paris began in 2007. Originally built to house some 10,000 residents only 2,000 call little Paris home. It is, for all intents and purposes, a ghost town.
The new feature on iOS7 will make your life easier. This is an easy way to block phone numbers, text messages and FaceTime calls that you do not want to receive on your iPhone with iOS7.
The Japanese HTV-4 cargo vessel launched on Sunday, beginning its journey to the International Space Station. Along with 3,5 tons of supplies for the astronauts aboard the space station, a tiny talking robot will join the crew.
Mark Shuttleworth is at it again, changing the future into how we always envisioned it to be… like the Jetsons. But with better hair. Using crowdfunding website, Indiegogo, Shuttleworth is asking donors to contribute towards creating a smartphone that is more powerful than a desktop computer. The phone, which will run on Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu, can […]
A 21-year-old woman from Brisbane logged on to Gumtree recently with the intention of purchasing two Apple iPhones. Casting a wide net, she placed an ad stating as much. A respondent contacted her, and advised that he had two apples for sale. Things went down hill from there.
Some people think bassists are dispensable. Some bands, like the Black Keys for instance, don’t even have a bassist! Victoria University of Wellington engineering student, James McVay (no relation), may have put a lot of bassists out of work, thanks to his bachelor’s degree project, the MechBass, a four-string robotic bass guitar. Built with laser-cut 3D-printed […]
Some time ago, we told you about Ledula, an excellent new local service that allows you to choose handymen based on recommendations made by your friends, and broader community. The video above describes how it works. We were impressed by the service, but felt that it wouldn’t be 10 out of 10 until they went […]
It has almost been a year since NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet. The WALL-E lookalike landed on Mars on 6 August last year, and since then has been drilling into the martian planet, collecting soil samples and taking some of the best selfies in the universe.
No, it is not the one in the image, but rather a curvy design that had been dubbed the “pebble. Te new DStv Explora decoder was unveiled on Wednesday by MultiChoice.
Nothing has been set in stone, but a proposal has been drawn up to place a 60 metre high sculpture of former president Nelson Mandela’s face on the cliffs of Table Mountain.
This New Zealand Aston enthusiast chose the 1961 Aston Martin DB4 model to replicate. Ivan Sentch has undertaken the painstaking task of 3D printing the replica which has plenty of detail on the body.
Online dating is incredibly annoying, if only for one reason: we’re usually compelled to read reams and reams of personal information about a person when, if we’re completely honest with ourselves, the first impression is the only thing that matters. Introducing Tinder, the geolocated dating app that gets straight to the superficial point.
Home entertainment. It’s a vital cog in the well oiled machine that is your life. You don’t eat the food you love with plastic forks, so why are you piping your favourite tunes and films into your face with subpar audio equipment? Why are you doing that? Stop doing that. Stop it.
There doesn’t seem to be any enterprise that musician William Adams aka Will.i.am is not involved in. The 38-year-old has successfully made the transition from pop group front man to the tech industry player. As an early consultant in Beats Electronics, Adams recently launched his own hardware business.
Facebook wants to take on television advertising, hard. The social networking platform wants to sell advertising space on the site in the form of a “TV-style commercial”. Advertising in this format could set you back as much as R25 million a day for a 15 second spot.
Scientists at the National Taiwan University in Taipei have developed a “wearable oral sensory system”. The Wi-Fi enabled sensor is able to detect when the wearer is speaking, drinking, coughing and chewing.
Wired was invited to Oshkosh, Wisconsin to witness the flying man. Yves Rossy, a former Swiss Air Force pilot, is known as the Jetman. Click through to see him fly.
It has been a while since Apple released any new products, in fact the last product to be released was in October 2012. But according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, there are “some amazing new products” on the horizon.
A group of guys on Kickstarter are trying to get people to help them build the Slingatron – a coil of railroad that basically shoots things into space. On the campaign page they explain their invention as such: “The Slingatron space launcher is an earth-based mechanical hypervelocity mass accelerator.” Their vision: We want to open up space […]
When your job entails investigating illegal activity and ruffling the wrong feathers, it will very often put you in awkward situations. Investigative journalist Brian Krebs often publishes articles about the online criminal underworld and unsurprisingly he has been harassed for his efforts.
Laurent Aigon, a dad from Aquitane, France, has given his son the ultimate gift. After five years of Internet sourcing and research, Laurent has been able to build a Boeing 737 cockpit…for his son’s bedroom. When Aigon was younger he was apparently an airplane enthusiast but as a result of being too lazy at school […]
Yes, a new study of over 20,000 participants has declared that 23 and 69 are the two happiest years of your life, confirming that anywhere between 29 and 51 really is a sprawling, barren emotional wasteland. You’re pretty screwed if you didn’t stop to savour the hell out of either of those two years. Quick! […]
So, according to the reliable German blog called iFun, we could be expecting the iPhone 5S sooner than we thought. The blog has said that the latest version of the phone has been rumoured to be released on 6 September. The iPhone 5 was unveiled on 12 September last year and then went on sale […]
If you’re the proud owner of an iPhone 5, you’ll no doubt be aware the screen sports Corning’s Gorilla Glass, making it highly scratch resistant. But if you’re this guy, or have ever repeated his stunt, you’ll have endured the sickening realisation that the iPhone5’s screen is no less crack-resistant than the iPod touch, iPad, […]
Making reservations for those popular restaurants can be as easy as…finding a programmer. Recently, coders in the San Francisco region have been using custom written programmes to book top-end tables in Silicon Valley – before the average diner has the chance. The programme, or bots, observe restaurant websites, waiting for tables to become available. The […]
This is a little scary. The first artificially implanted memories have been created by neuroscientists at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
If you are still catching up with the times you may not be aware, but in the world of smartphones, the major players are Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone. Users of either brand enjoy playing “my phone is better than yours”.