Jamie Condliffe

The European Union Court of Justice has ruled that people can ask Google to delete sensitive information from its Internet search results. Maybe that’ll happen in the U.S. at some point, too?

Virgin Galactic Might Not Technically Get You Into Space (Updated)

A new report about Virgin Galactic has taken a look at the small print in the customer contract that Virgin Galactic will give to those who choose to fly in the most ridiculous commercial aircraft ever—and it seems that they can’t promise you’ll make it into space. Even if it had the FAA permission that…

Airliner-Drone Near Miss Spurring FAA to Clamp Down on UAVs

It’s come to light that a small drone almost collided with a US Airways jetliner in Florida in March—and it’s enough to spur the FAA to further clamp down on the use of UAVs. According to Jim Williams, head of the FAA’s unmanned-aircraft office, the UAV came so close to the jetliner that the pilot…

The Simplest Explanation of What the World Wide Web Is That You’ll See

We all know someone who still manages to confuse the Internet and the World Wide Web, and no amount of frustrated, rambling description seems to help them understand the difference. Now, you can just show them this video. This explainer by TED-Ed describes the World Wide Web as a city, where skyscrapers are web servers,…

Motorola Adds LTE to the Moto G and Launches Budget Moto E

The Moto G is Motorola’s best-selling smartphone ever, and it just got a little bit better: there’s now an LTE version available, as well as budget version called the Moto E. The original Moto G was, and still is, a wonderful phone the money—we said that it was a “solid smartphone to help you improve…

Uber has decided to launch alow-cost SUV car service in San Francisco called UberXL—not to be confused with UberX, which offers smaller vehicles, or UberSUV, which is more expensive. Make sense? No, not really.

This Floating Speaker Shows You Soundwaves As It Plays

It might look a little bit like someone caged HAL in a wooden frame, but this is in fact an elegant speaker, where a spherical sound source sits suspended from its own cubic frame, so you can see how sound forces it to move. Designed by Giorgio Bonaguro and Juan Soriano Blanco, the Vitruvio speaker…

This New Gel Could Let Doctors Grow Bone Exactly Where They Need It

The body is expert at re-growing bone, but it doesn’t always manage to get the right shape. Now, a team from Rice University has developed a hydrogel that could let clinicians grow bone right where they need to. The researchers have created a hydrogel that’s liquid at room temperature but stiffens to a semi-solid at…

An Elegant Angular Take on an Old Stick Chair

New takes on old creations often result in beautiful objects that transcend the boundaries of time. Not unlike Andréason & Leibel‘s Woodkid chair: an angular, geometric take on the kind of stick chair your grandparents may have owned. Replacing round for square looks smart, sophisticated, and even simple—but Andréason & Leibel make a very good…

LG’s G Pad Will Now Come In Every Size You Could Ever Want

Like LG’s G Pad 8.3 but not convinced by the size? No problem: the tablet will now be issued in three other sizes to make the range exhaustively complete. We liked the G Pad 8.3 when reviewed is Google Play edition last year. Now, that 8.3-inch version will be complemented by 7-,8- and 10.1-inch versions.…

Tech’s So Advanced, Why Don’t We Change the Way Smartphones Work?

Technology has advanced so much that maybe it’s time to rethink the smartphone. In fact, Randall Munroe has an idea: why not have apps just download on the fly as you need them? Turns out, though, that such thinking isn’t perhaps as new as he might have first thought. In today’s XKCD, he explains his…

Samsung’s 72-year-old chairman Lee Kun-hee suffered a major heart attack over the weekend, though is now stable, breathing without assistance and undergoing surgery. Samsung insist that there “has been no disruption in the group’s day-to-day operation.”

Horrific Medical Procedures That WIll Make You Glad of Modern Medicine

If you ever think that medical techniques sometimes sound icky, then at least be glad you live in a world of modern medical progress. Because this video, by Five Facts, shows some horrific medical procedures that were once thought to actually help us get better. From eating dog poop—no, really—to chainsaw-like tools designed to prepare…

Users Didn’t Like Mozilla’s New-Tab Ads (So It’s Trying ‘Em Again)

Back in February, Mozilla announced that it was going to trial promotional tiles in its ‘new tab’ page. Now, the company has revealed that the idea “didn’t go over well” with users—but it will try again anyway. In a blog post, Mozilla VP Jonathan Nightingale says “A lot of our community found the language [them]…

Netflix Is Now $1 More Expensive For New Members

Remember that Netflix said in April that its service was going to get more expensive? Well it has: from now on, new members will have to pay $9 a month instead of the current $8. In an email sent out this norming, Netflix announced the increase, which has already hit Europe: In order to continue…

Beats Sale Seemingly Confirmed by Dr. Dre in Facebook Video

Yesterday’s news of Apple’s plan to buy Beats for $3.2 billion seems to have been confirmed by Dr. Dre himself, if this video, posted to Facebook by actor Tyrese Gibson, is anything to go by. The video was posted to Facebook overnight, and shows Dre celebrating in his studio. At one point, Dr. Dre describes…

This Self-Healing Plastic Oozes Goo That Clots Like Blood

Good news for klutzes: this new plastic heals itself by oozing liquid, which can solidify to automatically fill holes and cracks—just like blood clots to repair wounds. There have been bio-mimicking materials that could heal microscopic crack in the past, including ones made by Scott White at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—who’s also responsible…

You Could Own This Joystick That Landed Astronauts on the Moon

Want to make your sci-fi video games feel more authentic? Or maybe just need a new ornament for beside the fireplace? Then how about buying this joystick, which was used by astronaut Dave Scott to land the Falcon lunar module during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. The joystick forms part of a sale of…

One Day You Might Park Up in a Beautiful Solar Charging Carport

It’s a hard life running an expensive electric car, one that calls for plenty of inward introspection about how much you love the planet. So, better add a sleek and stylish solar-powered charging carport to the shopping list! Still very much a concept by BMW DesignworksUSA, this elegant and simple charging solution is designed to…

Remember the news that Netflix was set to raise its prices? Well, it’s just happened across the Atlantic, with prices rising by £1 and €1 in the UK and Europe, to £6.99 and €7.99 respectively (though current users get a 2-year price freeze). Can’t be too long until something similar happens on these shores.