Category: Features
How Britain First took over social media: Are your Facebook friends accidentally fascists?
Today is European Election Day and across the country, and parts of Europe (the rest of Europe vote on Sunday) people exercising their democratic duty to choose the people who will make the big decisions. Online, the political debate over…
Does Microsoft expect Windows Phone to fail?
Contrary to expectations, it has emerged that Microsoft will continue to make Nokia's nascent line of Android handsets now that it has acquired Nokia's phone business. Does this suggest that Microsoft are expecting Windows Phone to fail? Wait, what? Go…
Have a Pebble smartwatch, want to make an app but aren't a coder? CloudPebble might be a good place to start.
Over 300,000 Pebble smartwatches were sold in 2013, and as a result the monochrome crowdfunded watch has become one of the major smartwatch platforms. Earlier this year the company launched app stores on both iOS and Android, and as a…
Real names support, external storage and OneGuide coming to Xbox One in June
Microsoft has announced details of what Xbox One gamers can expect next month – including Europe finally being able to make use of the much vaunted TV integration. So remember at E3 last year when Microsoft made a big show…
New Batman: Arkham Knight trailer released. Time to get excited.
A new trailer from the forthcoming Batman game Arkham Knight has just been posted by WB Games – and man, does it look cool. The game is once again being developed by Rocksteady who were at the helm for the…
EE unveil own-brand "Eagle" tablet and bird-named 4G hotspot devices
Just weeks after announcing a phone called Kestrel, EE has today announced plans for a tablet called the Eagle – and some other hardware too. Let's start with Eagle – the slightly better, but still weird name given the 8"…
ASA orders EE to drop 'most reliable broadband' claim
Mobile operator EE must remove the claim that it offers "Britain's most reliable broadband" from its marketing, after the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint from rival BT that the slogan was misleading. The Inquirer tells us that BT filed…
Samsung Galaxy S5 ACTIVE spotted
Samsung's design team must never get bored. This morning, just days after the aluminium-bodied Galaxy S5 Prime was spotted there's now the ruggedised Galaxy S5 Active. YouTuber TK Tech News got his hands on the device, which sports a tougher…
WATCH: John Oliver takes Nintendo to task over gay marriage stance
Check out this video of comedian John Oliver on his new show "Last Week Tonight" covering the controversy a couple of weeks ago when Nintendo took an unusual position on same-sex marriage following a fan protest. Warning: Whilst this isn't…
Can Twitter help with ecological research?
It turns out Twitter isn't just for tweeting abuse at newspaper columnists after all. Check out this clever use of hashtags that is helping scientists keep check on the environment. Over the weekend it appears that Sergei Krupenin, who works…
