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Google’s First Social Network to be Shut Down Later This Year
When to comes to social networking, Facebook is in arguably the most popular and the most well-known platform on the internet today, however there are a multitude of other networks that are available around the globe with a few of these coming from Google. Back in 2004, Google unveiled their…
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Kickstarter Campaign ‘Reading Rainbow’ Most Successful Campaign To Date
Back in the 80’s, Reading Rainbow was one of the best known educational programs going, teaching kids of all ages how to read and when it came off air in 2006, many thought this would be the last we would see of one of the best educational programmes of recent…
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Russia Blames US Lasers for Knocking Them Out of the World Cup
I’ll be straight up and say first of all that I’m not one bit interested in football and things such as the world cup, where national pride is at stake, also fail to grab my interest – those who know me know what it think about the sport but that…
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BBC to Trial 4K Transmissions During Commonwealth Games
As 4K televisions are becoming more common on the marketplace and the cost of them starts to rapidly drop, the question now is not if 4K will ever appear, but now when will it be appearing in our homes. At this year’s World Cup in Brazil, the BBC are conducting a set of 4K…
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Highspeed Cows Hit Glastonbury With 4GEE – “It’s Udderly Fast”
One of the most globally recognised music festivals – Glastonbury – has this morning kicked off in the Somerset hills of South-West England and like any other music festival, staying current is a fundamental value that organisers have to take into account. Keeping Glastonbury current is not just about ensuring…
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MSI GT70-2PE ‘Dominator Pro’ Gaming Notebook Review
Introduction Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at a few of MSI’s latest gaming notebooks, each featuring NVIDIA’s brand new 800 series GPUs. As we look back at the two units that we’ve seen already, the first of these being the GS60-2PE ‘Ghost Pro’ – which, as a mid range…
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Turns Out To Be Far From Repair & Upgrade Friendly
iFixit, a site dedicated to tearing mobiles, tablets, notebooks and other bits of hardware to bits in order to provide users with repair guides has wasted no time in getting their hands on the latest Surface Pro 3 from Microsoft. During the teardown, or breakdown as the case may…
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Heartbleed Bug Still a Vulnerability on Over 300,000 Servers
The OpenSSL security flaw known as Heartbleed has been one of the most chilling news stories in the tech world over the last few months and it’s not surprising considering an estimated two-thirds of the world’s servers are reliant on the OpenSSL platform to operate. Now even though things have…
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Lego Fusion Closes Gap Between Real and Virtual Worlds
I don’t know about any of you, but when I was younger Lego was a big part of my childhood and even today I still act like a bit of a kid when it comes to playing around with it, however back then we had to imagine the rest of…
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Thecus N4560 4-Bay NAS Review
Introduction Over the last few years, the NAS market as a whole has been growing at a steady rate and in when we start to break things down and look at the rate of growth in the individual market sectors, the rate of sales in the consumer group has seen…
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One for the Ladies – Wireless Finger Nails with Colour Changing Displays
It may only be the start of the weekend, but here is something that to me sounds so unbelievable, you might even think its an April fools. If the headline doesn’t give it away, what we are looking at are images of a new concept that involves nail tips that…
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Apple’s Latest Budget Friendly iMac Not Fully Upgradeable
Earlier this week we heard about Apple’s latest offering to the market with a more budget conscious 21.5″ iMac, costing $1099 in the states and £899 here in the UK, and like most technology these days, it hasn’t taken all that long before someone (not myself for once) has taken…
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Overclockers UK Now Accepting Bitcoins
Whilst cyptocurrencies are not as widely spoken about today as they were only a few months back, the biggest currency of them all, Bitcoin, is still making its mark on the modern world, with more businesses recognising its value and how they can in turn make a profit by offering to…
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Wave Two of Haswell Refresh CPUs Due in Q3
It’s become apparent that Intel is not finished quite yet when it comes to updating their Haswell lineup for desktop systems. Following another update on CPU-World, an additional eight processors have been detailed, all from the low-end of the scale, and interestingly nothing below a Pentium is mentioned at this…
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Linksys WRT1900AC Dual-Band Wireless Router Review
Introduction Over the last few years there have been many products that have come to market that have had the ability to grab our attention for one reason or another. In some instances this has been due to the new technologies and levels of performance that they bring or in…
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