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UK Introduces Law Making Gigabit Internet Access Mandatory for New Houses!
The UK government currently has rather lofty goals in terms of high-speed internet access. Put simply, by 2025 (at least under current plans) 85% of UK households should have access to Gigabit broadband. What exactly is Gigabyte though? Well, officially speaking, it should be representative of a download connection of…
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Facebook Messenger Can Now Get Your Letter to the President
Social media has done what many has considered impossible for years. With people all over the world connecting on a daily basis, with everything from your old school friends from years ago to celebrities that you’ll likely never meet in person. Now it looks like Facebook Messenger could even bring…
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Would You Battery Power Your Home?
As we develop technology, how we change and live is being shaped more and more by our technology. With smart homes offering us the ability to warm up the home before you are even in the door or playing your music in rooms upstairs or downstairs at the press of…
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Friend Your Apartment Building or Risk Losing Your Place
Long are the days when the local newspaper had everything you needed to know about your local area, instead you find adverts on sites like Gumtree and Craigslist for everything from sofas and toys to apartments looking for housemates. So what would be wrong with finding the next place you…
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Developer Pockets Kickstarter Funds – Builds Own House
Crowd funding is a dangerous community to take part in. The idea is simple if you have an idea you ask others to back it at a cost, normally in exchange for early discounts or other benefits from the project. Hit your goal and you take the money to create…
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Ever Knocked Down the Wrong House Thanks to Google Maps?
We’ve all used Google maps and then had to guess the last few metres as the marker shows us the wrong location. It’s always a pain but, at least, it wasn’t responsible for knocking down your house. That’s correct, the wrong house was demolished thanks to the google maps marker showing…
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Instant Shelters For When Times Are Bad
We’ve all seen the news, sometimes they just seem to be filled with doom and gloom telling us how climate change is going to flood our homes and the beaches that we love to spread our toes on when it gets sunny. To combat this threat technology has created some…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Neighbours Unhappy Again!
Mark Zuckerberg is not really ingratiating himself with his neighbours within the local but admittedly expensive community that is Liberty Hill in San Francisco. The extensive construction and the accompanied noise and disruption has not been a favourite with the fellow residents and now a parking dispute has again caused…
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Amazon Fire Can Talk to Your Home and Listen to You
It would seem Amazon keep expanding on their technology, from the Kindle to the Echo, they produce more and more technologies that we now feel we need, that we never even considered before. The next one has a simple and nice name, Alexa, and she’s looking forward to helping you…
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Minecraft Streamer Purchases House For $4.5 Million
Many human beings outside the gaming stratosphere often make derisive comments and perceive the art-form as a waste of time or childish. Clearly, these ignorant comments are absolutely absurd but becoming less common given the financial success of many gaming personalities. For example, YouTube personality Jordan “CaptainSparklez” Maron has recently…
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SkySphere – The 360 Solar Powered Tree House
Who didn’t want a tree house when they were young? Who still doesn’t love the idea of being able to climb into a small house and enjoy a view while you take a break from the rush of everyday life? Seems like you may have the opportunity to enjoy half…
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Siri Can Now Play a Helpful Role in Controlling Your Smart Homes
Apple seems to be focusing on making you upgrade your homes as well as your gadgets this year. After it first announced a release date for the first smart home devices, the company is now focusing on getting their personal assistant, Siri, to help you out inside your smart homes.…
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Someone Built a Home to Withstand a Zombie Attack!
When you’ve got $1.75 million, a cold-war missile silo and a bit of spare time, there really is only one thing you should be doing – building a zombie proof home of epic proportions! This home in Adirondacks was built on top of an old cold-war missile silo, but the house…
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WhiteHouse.gov SSL Certificate Expires – Chrome Issues Embarrassing Warning
Apparently you couldn’t trust the White House yesterday. Well, while some may say that everyday, you really shouldn’t have yesterday, according to Google that is. In an embarrassing blunder, the US government-owned site forgot to update its SSL certificate, resulting in insecure connections to the site, as well as the above warning…
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Minecraft’s Notch Buys Most Expensive House in Beverly Hills
The creator of Minecraft, Markus Persson (Notch) has reportedly purchased the most expensive house in Beverly Hills for a whopping $70 million. We’re all aware of Microsoft’s acquisition of Mojang, the company behind Minecraft earlier this year. That deal landed Notch $2.5 billion, explaining his most recent purchase. The house includes an “automated…
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