Google launches YouTube Music and YouTube Premium “Google is launching a new, premium streaming service called YouTube Music. The company is also replacing its YouTube Red premium video service with a new, all-encompassing YouTube Premium. YouTube Music is a premium music streaming service that does away with all of YouTube’s major annoyances: It offers an…
READ MOREImage credit: Pexels Here’s a few highlights from 2017 WordPress 2017 Year In Review: The Biggest News From Last Year “WordPress and Drupal are the only two top-6 content management systems that grew in 2017. And of that pair, WordPress is growing faster. At the start of the year, WordPress powered 27.3% of all websites,…
READ MOREGameStick – Big Screen Micro Games Console “Portable, Dynamic, Revolutionary: GameStick delivers an all-new big screen gaming experience. Play your favorite Android games in full HD and rediscover your love of play! Gamestick disagree that big screen gaming should be tied to one living room so they have worked to pack a powerful games device…
READ MOREFive controllers that’ll replace your mouse “Even though the computer has raced onwards in the pursuit of performance, let’s face it, the old-fashioned mouse has changed little since its creation – all the way back in 1963. But a breed of plucky upstarts may spell the end of the peripheral as we know it. Here…
READ MOREPlastic Logic shows off ultra-thin and flexible displays “In case you didn’t get the memo, flexible displays – like the PaperTab – are the future. Plastic Logic is one of the driving forces behind this mind-bending tech that sees flexible displays housed in ultra-thin form-factors in a bid to revolutionise the way we interact with…
READ MOREWhy touchscreens are only just getting started “Tucked away in the depths of the Venetian Hotel is the CES Eureka Park – a collection of tech start-ups, entrepreneurs and small companies plying their wares. A far cry from the glossy, outsized spaces rented out by the tech giants in the Convention Center, it’s nevertheless a…
READ MOREAndroid games consoles to look out for “From OUYA to the NVIDIA Project Shield, here’s five Android games consoles to look forward to in 2013 and beyond In a year where we expect to get our first look at next generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony, Google is attempting to nudge its way into new…
READ MOREMicrosoft intros Sculpt Comfort Keyboard, left end of the space bar can be used as a backspace key “Over the summer, Microsoft took a break from showing off Windows 8 hybrids and turned its attention to unleashing a bunch of portable mice and keyboards. Turns out, Redmond wasn’t quite done refreshing its accessories collection: the…
READ MORERaspberry Pi to be mass produced by Sony in the UK “Nearly everyone who hears Raspberry Pi will immediately think affordable, compact, easily modded PC. Unless you’re an OAP who may start weighing up eating tasy pie with denture washing efforts. For those in the tech camp that appreciate the £22 computer, the news that…
READ MORE7 Ways Your Family Can Get More Out of the Cloud “The cloud has long been thought of as that bit of magical server space that is normally reserved for businesses and tech-savvy early adopters. In reality, the cloud can also offer busy families a variety of helpful and time-saving resources that are easy to…
READ MOREInternet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents “The Internet Archive has just enriched the BitTorrent ecosystem with well over a million torrent files, and that’s just the start of “universal access to all knowledge.” The torrents link to almost a petabyte of data and all files are being seeded by the Archive’s servers. Founder Brewster Kahle…
READ MOREBest Google Nexus 7 tablet apps to download first “Best Google Nexus 7 apps to download for the sub-£200 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet that packs some pretty impressive premium features From the great screen to the wallet-friendly price, the 7-inch Android tablet definitely made a good impression on the T3 team as you can…
READ MORENexus 7 Coming to the UK Mid-July “The 8 GB version of Google’s Nexus 7 will be arriving on UK shores mid-July, while the 16 GB variant will become available July 27, Engadget reports citing sources from Asus. Why the difference in release dates? Well, the 8 GB version of the tablet will be sold…
READ MOREMicrosoft Surface – need to know “Microsoft has announced a pair of shiny new Surface tablets – The Surface Windows RT and Surface Windows 8 Pro – to usher in a new touchable era of Windows 8 on the go, along with some potentially game-changing accessories. Let’s take a closer look, shall we? Microsoft Surface…
READ MOREUbuntu Fans: Humble Bundle Games Are Now Available In The Software Center “If you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you might be excused for not knowing about this Humble Bundle thing. As a long-time Linux user, the Humble Bundles have always been of interest to me, and I’ve always…
READ MOREGoogle Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery “Google is keeping the string of Maps launches going — it’s just rolling out very, very detailed 3D maps for technology like Google Earth, using a “new process” to get extra depth. In some areas, such as San Francisco, it models every building and delves down into…
READ MOREVirgin Media names the first 80 tube stations to get WiFi hotspots “Transport for London and Virgin Media have announced the first 80 London Underground stations that’ll receive free WiFi in time for the Olympics. By the end of July, users will be able to surf from the train platform, ticket offices and escalators —…
READ MORENext Big Thing – interactive kitchen “A Microsoft Surface? Yawn. Cover your mouth and listen up. This isn’t the Microsoft Surface – at least not like you’ve seen it. This is a Samsung-powered kitchen tabletop with an interactive touchscreen baked straight into it, serving up the freshest news, videos and web content for you to…
READ MOREAugmented Reality Portals by Pixelcase “Imagine walking from your home right into a new world! Users can also record their journey and share with friends around the globe. With augmented reality portals by Pixelcase – they can capture and produce a branded Augmented Reality portal for Snapchat and Facebook using their global accredited network of…
READ MOREThe Worlds Most Advanced Street Sign “Points is a brand new kind of street sign from development house Breakfast NY, that, while resembling a familiar “all-points” sign, is actually a bit of a high-tech wonder, full of gears, Internet feeds, LEDs and more. The 9-foot-tall sign offers three arrows that can actually rotate around the…
READ MORENvidia shows off new water engine “New physics-based technology allows developers to create much more realistic water effects Nvidia has shown off the next generation of digital water physics, promising much more realistic water effects. The new fluid simulation algorithm is called Position Based Fluids. It allows developers to create water effects that are incredibly…
READ MORECelebrating one year of the Raspberry Pi “The Raspberry Pi turns a year old today, so we’ve decided to look at five of the best achievements earned by the little computer that could. Before stuffing down a few cakes down in its honour. Raspberry Pi – SNES emulator It didn’t take long for someone to…
READ MOREGoogle Drive now lets developers share hosted websites by storing HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files “Google on Tuesday announced that it will allow Web developers to share hosted websites via Google Drive. All you have to do is store your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files, and then share a link to your starting HTML file….
READ MOREWhy a Microsoft Office 2013 Subscription Makes Sense for Families “When you think of things you regularly pay a yearly subscription for, office software probably isn’t high on that list. Microsoft wants to change that. With the launch of Office 2013, Microsoft is introducing a new way for you to buy its software. No need…
READ MOREWiGig: The wireless HDMI standard set to do away with cables “Fed up of managing the web of HDMI cables from behind your TV? WiGig, the new wireless standard could set to change all that with wireless connections WiGig, the new wireless standard has gained certification from IEEE, with experts claiming it will replace HDMI…
READ MOREAsus to make motion-controlled computers a reality this year “Leap Motion’s 3D motion control technology – which uses cameras and sensors to let you interact with your PC Minority Report-style – got us all excited last year. We can’t wait to waggle our fingers at our computers – and Asus is obliging us, with plans…
READ MOREApple iPad sales topped 100 million two weeks ago “Just two and a half years after creating the product line, Apple announced today it has already notched its 100 millionth iPad sold. While we’re still expecting to see a new, smaller model (get all the 4th gen info, including the new mini right here) unveiled…
READ MOREAmazon Cloud Drive launched in UK “The Amazon Cloud Drive is now available in the UK giving you 5GB storage for free. Simply download the app to your computer and you’re instantly granted the free storage with paid options for greater space. 20Gb will set you back a mere £6 per year, while 1TB will…
READ MOREAmazon launches Glacier archiving service, a cheap way to put your files on ice “Amazon’s S3 cloud service has proved a popular proposition, with many large web enterprises happily depending on it (most of the time) to serve up its content. Now, the internet retail giant is offering a similar product, aimed squarely at archives,…
READ MORESay goodbye to your mouse and keyboard. “Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. This…
READ MOREGoogle Android Jelly Bean: What you need to know “Android Jelly Bean is official, and according to Google, it’s ‘the fastest and smoothest version of Android yet’… It’s safe to say, that Android OS has gone from strength to strength in the last few years. But Google is not a company to sit on it’s…
READ MOREMeet Microsoft Surface’s Innovative Keyboard Cases “Microsoft announced Surface, its new Windows tablet, at an event on Monday. To go along with it, the company also announced two covers for the tablet that double as a keyboards for the device. Much like Apple’s Smart Cover does with the iPad, Touch Cover connects to Surface via…
READ MOREMozilla Launches Thimble, A Web-Based Code Editor For Teaching HTML and CSS “Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced the launch of Thimble, its latest project to teach more users how to build their own web pages. Thimble, which is part of Mozilla’s recently launched Webmaker project, is meant to help…
READ MOREWhy IPv6 Is a Win for Digital Advertising “For everyday users, yesterday’s big shift in Internet addresses — from the IPv4 to IPv6 — will go unnoticed. To anyone doing business on the Web, though, it’s of extreme interest, and there’s one group who may benefit from the re-organization more than others: advertising networks. First,…
READ MOREFree WiFi on London Underground launched by Virgin Media “50 days remain until the start of the 2012 London Olympic games and to mark the occasion Richard Branson and co. have kindly decided to broadcast WiFi for all Apple iPad Today sees the beginning of Virgin Media’s campaign to install free WiFi in nearly 80…
READ MOREGoogle Search Just Got 1,000 Times Smarter “The Google Search of the future is here. Now. Today. The long-talked-about semantic web — Google prefers “Knowledge Graph” — is rolling out across all Google Search tools, and our most fundamental online task may never be the same again. Starting today, a vast portion of Google Search…
READ MORESky offers free WiFi to broadband customers via ‘The Cloud’ “Sky broadband customers will be pleased to hear that the operator is to release a new “Sky Cloud WiFi” app that will let them hop onto 10,000 hotspots around the UK. The new venture comes after it snatched up service provider The Cloud earlier this…
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