There's a loophole in the TV licensing system that means iPlayer users don't need TV licences. However, there's a fairly big caveat: the loophole applies only if your viewing is exclusively on-demand, and that you never, ever watch programmes that are live or "virtually live". In other words, pausing Strictly so you can make a cup of tea doesn't count[......]
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The future of PC graphics What's next for graphics? Why, Graphics Core Next, of course. Thanks, AMD, for that nicely pallindromic way to start off a feature[......]
Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of WEEK! IN! TECH! That's right: we've taken a leaf out of Nokia's book, and that book appears to be called THE BIG BOOK OF SHOUTING. [......]
We've teamed up with Huddlebuy.co.uk – the friend of entrepreneurs and start-ups – to bring you an exclusive competition. The company is giving away a MacBook Air and one of 20 two year subscriptions to LoJack for Laptops, the laptop recovery tool – worth almost £1,800 in total. Huddlebuy is giving away a 128GB, 11.6-inch MacBook Air worth £999[......]
We love a good future gaze as much as anyone, but not as much as Microsoft which has whipped up yet another exploration of future tech in video form. The six-minute video posits that in the future pretty much everything will be a tablet, including your flip chart, your wall, your glasses and your fridge. [......]
Adidas has revealed a new in-shoe, workout tracker that'll capture a host of vital statistics for use with all forms of exercise. The Adidas Speed Cell (or SPEED_CELL as the sportswear giant wants us to write it), works in the same way as a Nike+ chip, but captures many more types of data[......]
TalkTalk has spoken out about why it is continuing to pursue appeals against the Digital Economy Act , saying that the mooted laws will punish innocent subscribers. Speaking at a Westminster eForum to discuss the issues around implementing the Act that TechRadar attended, Andrew Heaney, executive director of strategy and regulation at TalkTalk described the DEA as an indiscriminate dragnet. He told delegates, "We're not saying that piracy is okay – we're not even saying don't send out notification letters[......]
Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University have unveiled a new project that uses Kinect and a projector to turn any surface into an interactive touch screen. The project, dubbed OmniTouch, will track surfaces such as the palm of a hand, and lets users use taps and multitouch gestures to interact with them[......]
Attempts to prevent the extradition of UK hacker Gary McKinnon have suffered another set back, with a judge deeming there to be no bias in the extradition of British criminal subjects. The extradition had been criticised due to the apparent ease with which the US can extradite Brits, when the British government has trouble removing US citizens for trial. [......]
Walking down the street idly stroking your pocket will no longer be an arrestable offence, if Microsoft Research has its way. [......]
YouTube has announced plans to join forces with its official music partners to offer merchandise, MP3s and concert tickets directly from the artist's channel. The YouTube Merch Store will mean popular YouTube sensations, and bonafide pop stars alike, can sell official gear as a means up supplementing the income the income they receive from video views. YouTube isn't doing this by halves either[......]
Scientists at Singapore's Agency for Science Technology and Research have upped the storage densities of hard drives - with humble table salt. Traditionally, hard disks use randomly distributed nanoscopic grains about seven to eight nanometres in size to hold data, with a cluster of a few tens of grains holding one bit. But the scientists - led by Dr Joel Yang - were able to add table salt to the extremely high-resolution e-beam lithography process to make grains that could hold a single bit of data, while measuring 10 nanometres[......]
Philips has reported some pretty bad figures for the third quarter of the year, with profits having fallen a staggering 85%. The bleak financial news means that around 4,500 workers will lose their jobs as part of a £700 million cost cutting plan[......]
The death of money Every day, all over the world, currency is minted and printed in huge quantities. That currency gets jammed into pockets and organised in tills, folded inside wallets and stuffed into envelopes, paid into bank accounts and stored underneath mattresses. [......]
Do we even need to say what this week's big news is? [......]
