Author: Stuart
Stuart is formerly a Technology Production Editor for The Evening Standard and lives in Battersea
Almost 10% of Android apps are malware: report
Thinking of switching form iPhone to Android? You might want to think again. It seems that as many as nine per cent of Android apps – that's almost one in every 10 – are fully or partially malware, according to new research. The figure comes from Cheetah Mobile's security report for the first half of 2014. Cheetah…
Video games CAN be good for you
Hallelujah. It looks like all those naysayers who have been telling us for years that video games are bad for you and will rot your brain or turn you into a violent psychopath were wrong after all. A new Oxford University study suggests that children who play games for up to an hour a day…
Nintendo is still faltering despite Mario Kart 8 success
It was once the video game powerhouse, but now Nintendo is still suffering financial woes. While sales of both the Wii U console and the Mario Kart 8 game have been strong, they have not been enough to pull the company out of its four-year slump. Nintendo this week revealed its financial results for the…
Top Gear’s former Stig ‘terrified’ by driverless cars
You would think that the only thing that would terrify Top Gear's former Stig Ben Collins would have been having to work with Jeremy Clarkson. Now the former test driver for the BBC motoring show has described the prospect of driverless cars as terrifying, saying that "robots are fantastic as dishwashers but they don't make…
Now Facebook will pay users to experiment on them
Facebook appears to have learnt its lesson from the recent outcry over experiments that it carried out on its users. Sky News reports that Facebook is offering actual money to people who are willing to test out its new photo-messaging app, Slingshot. “Calling all Slingshot fans! Join our hand-picked group working to make the app…
Shazam brings music ID powers to Mac
Shazam is bringing its media identification software to the desktop with an app for the Mac. Previously only available on smartphones, Shazam is now available for free in Apple’s Mac App Store. As with the Android or iOS version, Shazam for Mac identifies songs playing in the background of your home, office, coffee shop, or…
Microsoft to launch Xbox One in China
Game consoles have been banned in China since 2000, but now Microsoft is about to release its Xbox One in the country. Solar News reports that Yusuf Mehdi, head of marketing and strategy for Microsoft's Xbox group, announced the launch date of September 23 at an event in Shanghai. It said that the console would…
Driverless cars to take to UK roads in 2015
Flying cars will probably never be a thing, but we know that driverless cars already are. And from next year, we'll be seeing them in use on UK roads. The government has announced that from January 2015, driverless cars will be allowed to use public roads. Business secretary Vince Cable said that three UK cities…
Watch the Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare story trailer
Call of Duty is probably the biggest-selling game franchises on the market, after GTA. The latest version - Sledgehammer Games' futuristic Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - is due out in November, and Activision has just released the new campaign story trailer. It's set in the wake of "the first global terrorist attack in history",…
Apple refreshes MacBook Pro with Retina display line, improved processors and more RAM
As rumoured yesterday, Apple has unveiled an upgrade to the Retina MacBook Pro lineup. The entry-level 13-inch model now comes with a 2.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor - previously it was a 2.4GHz chip - with 8GB of RAM as standard. The top-tier 13-inch model comes with a 2.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor,…
