General Tech

Ashton’s an engineer and your friends are giraffes: #StuffToKnow this week

You will soon break your phone into pieces on purpose. Kelso just became an engineer at Lenovo. The KitKat will no longer just give…

Press start: global games market to score $93-billion in 2013

All the gold coins Mario has collected over the years couldn’t compare to the success of the gaming industry. When 2013 is done and…

BYOD is the devil and your company’s security will suffer… sorta [RSAC]

It is like this: as buzzwordy and amazing as the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) trend is, it’s dangerous for your company’s infrastructure. Currently…

The greatest show on earth: protecting the Olympics [RSA Conf]

Here is the thing: as fun and great as the Olympic Games was, it was a technological nightmare for the security teams involved. “The…

Big data is the superhero for your digital security woes [RSA conf]

There has never been a more dangerous time to be online: there are threats from every corner and attackers are getting more sophisticated. With…

Apple freebies, #Music killed and Capt America back: #StuffToKnow this week

So Apple is giving away its desktop operating system for free, but you’ll still have to fork out for a thinner, lighter iPad. The…

The future of online privacy? Most of us aren’t all that bothered

Meabh Quoirin, managing director of Future Foundation closed the annual Future Foundation conference with an in-depth look at where privacy and anonymity on the…

5 big tech stories to look out for in 2012

I saw a joke going around recently … according to tech-experts at Apple, 2012 is actually 2011S. Rather funny, considering I just got myself…

Memeburn’s top tech fails of 2011

I sometimes wonder if there is any industry with more pantomime, histrionics, and at the same time, sheer brilliance than the technology industry. It’s…

5 Big ways the tech world changed in 2011

In many ways, 2011 was the year when previously overhyped technologies suddenly became mainstream (you may not have noticed because you were too busy…

With updates being promised, is the Kindle Fire another failed ‘iPad Killer’?

Facing a slew of complaints from early adopters, Amazon is promising an update for its much hyped Kindle Fire tablet, the New York Times…

Wired.com goes creative commons: Memeburn’s 10 favourite images

Wired has a long and well-respected history and standing in the tech world. Hardly surprising given that it has been providing “a glimpse into…

A ‘touch’ reveals the artistic side of Google Street View

Aside from being one of the internet’s best procrastination tools — OMG! Look, it’s my house! — Google Street View is also said to…

Fully automatic: 7 mind-blowing tech innovations

Recently, I wrote an article discussing how rapid technological innovation may ultimately have far reaching impact on the job market through jobless growth. This…

Were the Luddites onto something?

Back in the early 1800s a group of disgruntled artisans based around Nottingham, in the UK, began a movement that opposed the new technology…

The rise of China and other mega-trends from Mary Meeker

Queen of the Net, Mary Meeker, presented her “Internet Trends” for the year at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011 in San Francisco earlier this…

When piracy goes mainstream

I was quite taken aback to discover a very interesting article posted on the ABC news network’s Technology Blog, called The Case For Piracy….

Big Data: It’s both about size and technique

We’re in the age of the petabyte, exabyte and zettabyte. We’re being overwhelmed with information, and we don’t know what to do about it….

P2P DNS – Taking ownership of the internet

DNS is one of those core technologies on which the internet runs. For most end users, DNS is pretty much invisible until they want…

Meet Romo, the robotic smartphone

I guess I’m getting tired of reading about nebulous stuff happening in the cloud, so I’m spending a bit more time checking out what…

Münchausen by internet — The little known but not uncommon illness

We all know that one person. One who is either terminally ill, has some or other rare disease or that one who has tried…

3D printing for kids with Origo

When I was a kid, you could give me a stick and a puddle of mud and I would be entertained for hours. In…

How open source can help you build a voice-activated robotic arm

Sometimes you stumble on the most interesting projects, and you get all inspired to start making stuff yourself. The other day, I came across…

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Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

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Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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