Tag: Warning
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Micropay Apps To No Longer Be Called Free
Following continual media and public awareness of ‘freemium’ apps with optional microtransactions, Apple has had to bow to public pressure and stop listing these apps as ‘free’ on the app store, replacing the download button that previously said the game or app was free with one that now says ‘get’. Back in the summer the […]
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Google X Pill To Spot Cancer With Nanotech
If cancer was a person, we’d be first in line to kick them right in the crotch. Thankfully though, massive tech companies are stepping in to potentially reduce the death toll from this nasty affliction, companies like Google, and their mad science department known as Google X. Google X are known for sending balloons filled […]
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Windows XP Support Ends – Lock Up Your Laptops
A lot of people are throwing words like ‘retro’ or ‘classic’ and sometimes even ‘dated’ to describe literal pieces of junk they own. I’m looking at you, hipsters. Well, here’s a piece of retro fashion for you, it’s nice to look at, it’s kind of slow and it’s literally everywhere, it’s Windows XP. So, what […]
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Vodafone to iPhone 4S customers: Don’t upgrade to iOS 6.1
3G issues to blame
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Diablo III Gamer Dies in Taiwan After 40 Hour Session – Second Death Due to Excessive Play
An 18 year old man from Taiwan has become the second gamer to die from excessive play time since the start of 2012. The game of choice this time was fantasy role-player Diablo III and just like the death of a 23-year old in February this unfortunate fellow, who was known only as Chuang, had […]
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Google Maps Introduces Safe Routes for Cyclists
After the recent inclusions of river and canal paths and a number of indoor locations Google will again update its direction and location software – this time to advise the safest routes for cyclists. Using information from the National Cycle Network paths, bike lanes and warnings of steep inclines have been accounted for and introduced […]
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Physiotherapy Society Warns Obsessive Gadget Based Overtime Turning Us Into “Screen Slaves”
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has issued a warning over our nation’s dependancy on technology suggesting that office staff and device dependant workers leave their gadgets alone when they get home from their jobs or become “screen slaves”. A survey of 2,010 office workers found that two thirds admit to either immediately grabbing their mobile […]
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Infinity Ward Threatens Ban to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Players Exploiting Black Box DLC Glitch
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 owners have been issued a hasty and hard-hitting warning from the game’s developer (via Twitter) regarding an exploit found in the new Black Box Map Pack which was released last week exclusively for Elite Premium subscribers to download on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Black Box was accompanied by […]
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Missed “Early Access” to Android ICS on HTC Sensation & Sensation XL? Get the ROM now!
If you’re a HTC Sensation or Sensation XL owner in the UK and Europe but so far haven’t been so lucky enough to be invited to try out the Early Access beta of newest Android OS Ice Cream Sandwich – fret not. Those kind folk over at Insert Coin have developed a ROM that’ll let […]
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Missed “Early Access” to Android ICS on HTC Sensation & Sensation XL? Get the ROM now!
If you’re a HTC Sensation or Sensation XL owner in the UK and Europe but so far haven’t been so lucky enough to be invited to try out the Early Access beta of newest Android OS Ice Cream Sandwich – fret not. Those kind folk over at Insert Coin have developed a ROM that’ll let […]
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Developers Caught Using Illegitimate Methods to Boost App Ratings – Apple Issues a Warning
A worrying number of apps featured in the Top 25 charts in Apple’s App Store have been boosted through illegitimate methods, and Apple has uncovered the methods used and issued a stern warning. Developers who are eager to get their new apps noticed in the App Store have been coerced into paying out to advertising […]
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Scientists find evidence that WiFi is dangerous to sperm
WiFi in laptops said to significantly damage sperm in new study