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Courts Looking At Virtual Reality To Recreate Crime Scenes
Virtual reality can be used to help people experience all kinds of things, from enjoying the thrill of adventures in space to letting an elderly relative view the coast one more time. The university of Staffordshire looks to use the evolving area of virtual reality to help police gain convictions by recreating…
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Juicero Is An Expensive Internet Connected Juicer
When it comes to the internet, it lets you do a lot of things. From watching the latest movies online in 4K quality to ordering your shopping without even stepping out your door. With the next generation of devices being part of the “internet of things” you can do everything…
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Delta Want RFID Tags on Your Luggage – Does This Mean They Won’t Lose It?
We’ve all had that fear, you decide to go on holiday and realise half way to your destination you realise that yours could be one of the hundreds of bags that are misplaced each year. It could be something as simple as it fell off a cart or may have…
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Scan Computers Unveils Awesome Skylake Bundle!
Many enthusiasts on older CPUs like the i7-2600K patiently waited for Skylake’s launch to upgrade their hardware. Unfortunately, Intel’s latest platform experienced supply problems in certain territories which led to eye watering prices on the flagship i7-6700K. In the UK, retailers were charging £100 extra compared to the i7-4790K which prevented…
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SCAN Launches Black Friday Extravaganza!
Black Friday is finally upon us and retailers have started to slash prices on a number of items just before the holiday period. SCAN is the latest company to offer heavy discounts on computer hardware, and it’s certainly one of the best sales I’ve seen in recent memory! Some of the…
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Judge Votes in Favour of Apple in Bag Check Lawsuit
Sometimes we get asked to do weird things for work, some of them are as simple as working a couple of extra hours and some of them are a little more extreme, such as asking for an entire weekend of work. A group of Apple employees believed it had gone…
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More Retailers Down – Another Round of DDoS Attacks?
It seems that the DDoS attacks which took down major UK retailers such as Scan, Aria and Novatech are far from over. We’ve seen reports and experienced issues first hand with sites like CCL Computers, Overclockers UK (and their Forums) and Chillblast all being hit last night and today with…
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UK E-tailers Taken Offline by DDoS Attacks
Yesterday, UK based e-tailers were the apparent victims of a DDoS attack that took Aria Technology, Novatech, and Scan Computers websites offline. Channelweb reported that Aria Taheri, the owner of Aria Technology said that after the business’s website was down for a few hours in the afternoon they received an email…
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Windows 10 Pre-Order Available at Major E-tailer
With Windows 10 nearly upon us, we’ve managed to get some inside knowledge that Microsoft have given the go ahead for retailers to accept pre-orders. While we’re unsure if this is limited to the UK at the moment, we can only assume that this would be a worldwide marketing push.…
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Scientists Find a Way to Reveal Your Viral Past With Just a Drop of Blood
During our lifetime, we get exposed to dozens of viruses, but luckily our bodies are well equipped to deal with it. Our immune system produces antibodies to deal with foreign agents and make us well again. However, the antibodies tailored for these viruses tend to linger in our bodies prolonged…
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Could Your Smartphone Soon Have a 3D Scanner?
A new camera sensor designed at CalTech by researchers Professor Ali Hajimiri may soon enable smartphones to take 3D scans. The new chip is called a nanophotonic coherent imager, and uses a form of LIDAR to capture height, width, and depth information for each pixel. Professor Hajimiri explains “by having…
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Google Admits it is Scanning Android Phones For “The Right Reasons”
You may not be shocked that the search engine giant, Google, is scanning every single app on your phone, even if you downloaded it from third-parties and not from the Google Store. But is it really doing it for ‘the right reason’? Google has confirmed in a security report that…
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Scan Computers Booth at Insomnia i52
The Insomnia i52 event in Coventry, UK, is now in full swing and the crowds are flooding through the doors to check out the latest and greatest technology in the exhibitors hall. Our first stop this weekend is the Scan booth, they’ve got some really great stuff on display this…
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Man Breaks Into Neighbor’s Apartment Using His Phone and An App
Andy Greenberg from Wired has apparently shown us how easy it is to break in someone’s house nowadays. You don’t need sophisticated lock-picking skills or need to be a professional thief to do it. All you need is an app and an iPhone, as he puts it. Greenberg used an…
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UK’s National Crime Agency Gives Two-Weeks Notice Regarding GoZeuS and CryptoLocker
The UK National Crime Agency warns the public to take advantage of a two-week notice in order to protect themselves from two major malware roaming the internet, the GoZeuS and CryptoLocker, which are responsible for transferring cash from online accounts and holding personal data for ransom. The NCA stated that…
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