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What Happens When You Open and Save a JPEG 500 Times?
Many years ago, back in the first days of digital photography, torture testing JPEG images to determine how much quality has been lost by making multiple edits was quite a big thing. JPEG’s use a technique called lossy compression that drops information to keep file sizes at a manageable level. A…
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Campaign to Return Spyro the Dragon Underway
A new campaign has appeared online and caught our attention, to bring back Spyro the dragon. The campaign has been ongoing for a few months now on the popular petition website, change.org and is hoping to get enough supporters to make Sony acknowledge the fans and bring back the adorable little…
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ASRock X99 BIOS Updates Reveal Broadwell-E Line Up
Ahead of Intel’s much awaited Broadwell-E processor launch, ASRock announced the release of a new BIOS with support for X99 CPUs that are available on today’s market. The update applies to all of the motherboard manufacturers’ X99 product lines. The new Broadwell-E processors will fit in the same LGA2011-V3 sockets as their Haswell predecessors and…
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New York State Introduce The Textalyzer
Most of us know of the breathalyzer, the device that all police officers carry in their cars to check if you’re over the alcoholic tolerance levels whilst driving. The simple device has been in use for decades and helped police officers across the globe arrest drivers that are breaking the…
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First Pascal GPU’s to be Unveiled at Computex 2016?
Some of the first cards to run utilizing the all new “Pascal” architecture made by Nvidia, may debut at Computex 2016. The show is going to be in Late may / Early June in Taipei and is one of the biggest ICT shows in the world and you can be…
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Amazon Reveals How to Build an Echo Speaker With Raspberry Pi
Amazon wants to push its Alexa voice assistant as far and wide as possible, so much so that one of the company’s employees has released a step-by-step guide to building an Alexa-powered speaker yourself with a Raspberry Pi. The DIY echo can be made using a cheap USB microphone, speaker and…
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What if McDonald’s Advertised like Apple?
Imagine if a McDonald’s advertisement looked as captivating as one produced by Apple. Picture a Big Mac and fries marketed with minimalist type, a white background, and CEO rattling off terms like “refined,” “complexity,” and “extraordinary.” Well, Buzzfeed have done it. Their team has made and released a Mcdonalds advert…
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Microsoft Supports Apple in FBI Encryption Case
Speaking at a hearing today, Microsoft president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith announced that the company ‘wholeheartedly’ support one of their competitors, Apple in the long-running case between Apple and the FBI. In case you’ve not heard about the ongoing battle, the FBI have ordered Apple to remove the…
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Friends Make Surprising Move With One Off Special
Friends are coming back to our screens. Sort of… The cast is getting back together on their old TV network, NBC, to pay tribute to the veteran sitcom director James Burrows. Burrows has recently held his 1000th TV episode, he has helmed series such as Taxi and the Bob Newhart Show.…
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Pinnacle of v GTA Mod Creator Gets in Trouble
The Pinnacle of V creator Josh Romito has been under a lot of heat recently. So much that he has now shut down the project due to claims that he has stolen assets from other Grand Theft Auto mods that are available online. Josh claimed that some people have contributed…
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Battlefield 4 Player Aces Phenomenal Kill Streak
This battlefield 4 player has clearly gotten to know the game inside and out. A video was posted on YouTube a short while ago showing how this player gets a phenomenal kill streak. He picks up an SV-98 sniper rifle equipped something rather strange, not a typical sniper telescopic sight but…
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All BBC Services are Currently Down
The BBC is currently suffering from intermittent internet service outages this morning. All BBC web-based services have been affected including iPlayer and the main news website. DownDetector has shown a dramatic rise in reports of the websites being unavailable from around 7am too, the website is showing 500 error pages,…
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Bill Gates Mansion Has Some Secrets!
We all know Bill Gates has a whopping amount of money. He’s the owner of Microsoft, several hotel chains, and Corbis. Well, he also has several stunning properties. His home in Washington is worth a phenomenal $154 million. That’s approximately 1000 average British houses. However, he only paid $2 million back…
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Raspberry Pi Foundation Asked to Install Malware
Earlier this week the Rpi foundation were approached by a lady called Linda. Linda asked the team if they would ever so kindly distribute an exe file alongside their Linux operating system, Raspian. The e-mail they were sent asks if the foundation would perform the miracle of running an exe…
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