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Downtime
Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
January 2014
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Old Macdonald had a drone...
- TechTarget 30 Jan 2014 -
Blow me! A Raspberry Pi-powered datacentre
23 Jan 2014 -
Status: Arrested
- Senior analyst 23 Jan 2014
Armed Predator drone firing Hellfire missile (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Drones have a mixed reputation to say the least. From debates on whether they can be trusted for use in Middle East war zones ...
We all know datacentre servers are shrinking, but could they really be colonised by the humble Raspberry Pi? New UK colocation firm Colocker says they can. The company offers a novel service where ...
Once again proving that social media is dangerous, a fugitive from the law has landed himself behind bars through his activities on Facebook.Wanted on a charge of aggravated assault, Anthony ...
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What's that I smell?
- TechTarget 22 Jan 2014 -
Driving 80mph with Google Glass
- Managing Editor 17 Jan 2014 -
Quit your job from the safety of your iPhone
- TechTarget 14 Jan 2014 -
Google Glass the Jodhpurs of today
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 Jan 2014 -
Transformers director Michael Bay blooper at CES
- Business Editor 07 Jan 2014 -
Is Google's latest patent a joke?
- Senior analyst 02 Jan 2014 -
Barack Obama got excited when a reliance on internet left Cockneys stranded in Wales
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 02 Jan 2014
Smell (Photo credit: Dennis Wong)In a world where our fingers seem surgically attached to the touchscreens of our smartphones and our eyes transfixed on messages going back and forth across SMS, ...
Cecilia Abadie (pictured left), a Google Glass beta tester based in San Diego, has escaped a traffic ticket, after her case was dropped by court in California.Abadie was pulled over by a US traffic ...
Quit Your Job (Photo credit: Kevin Krebs)As the festive season seems like a distant memory and the doldrums of day to day life weigh down on our shoulders like never before, many people look to a ...
Research about Google Glass has revealed that the main obstacle to its take up is the embarrassment of wearing it.The research revealed that 68% of 1132 people interviewed said they would feel too ...
Samsung invited Transformers film director, Michael Bay, onto the stage to help plug their new curved UHD TV set at CES in Las Vegas. That's one invite Bay probably wished he had turned down.The ...
Over the past few years Google has filed some ground-breaking patents, and now after almost four years the tech firm has finally been granted a patent for creating comic strips.Perhaps it took the ...
News of a London couple finding Snowdon on the internet got the US president momentarily excited.On his day off Obama decided to do a quick search to catch up on progress around US's most wanted, ...
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Beware the quad-rotor swarm!
- Senior analyst 02 Jan 2014
A swarm of intelligent quad-rotors that respond to hand gestures may sound like science fiction, but researchers at the University of Illinois in the US are taking this scenario one step closer to ...