Jamie Condliffe

The World’s Smallest Arm Chip Is Going To Be Inside You

Manufactured by Freescale, this chunk of silicon claims to be the world’s smallest ARM-powered chip. Measuring just 2 x 2 x 0.5 millimeters, it’s so small that it will likely end up inside… you. It packs a modest 48 MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, paired with 32KB of flash memory and 4KB of RAM. That might…

The six strikes anti-piracy scheme has kicked off: torrenters, brace yourselves for strongly worded letters. https://gizmodo.com/that-six-strikes-anti-piracy-plan-could-be-rolling-out-5986511

Star Trek Trumps Mythology in Naming Pluto’s New Moon

Due to popular demand, one of Pluto’s recently discovered moons is to be named Vulcan, after the fictional home of Star Trek’s Spock. And that makes no kind of sense. The name Vulcan was suggested by William Shatner, then reinforced by Leonard Nimoy. Over 450,000 people voted to name the moon, in a poll run…

At a press conference in Barcelona Google claimed its model of selling phones online is “here to stay.” Long live Nexus!

Mathematically, How Many Different Tweets Could There Ever Be?

There’s only so much you can say in 140 paltry characters. So how many possible different tweets are there that could ever be sent? Randall Munroe has tackled that very question in today’s wonderful What If? post. First, a very crude approximation: Tweets are 140 characters long. There are 26 letters in English-27 if you…

How Much Personal Data Logging Is Too Much?

There’s a lot to be said for collecting and storing data about yourself: it can give you a valuable, objective insight into your daily life. But how much is too much? WIRED spoke to Chris Dancy, who likes to track his life. Really, seriously, track his life. From the article: At the moment, he tracks…

The Pirate Bay Leaves Sweden Over Legal Threats

The Pirate Bay is leaving Sweden, because pressure from a local anti-piracy group representing the entertainment industry is getting too much for it. Instead, the ‘Bay will be hosted across Norway and Spain, reports Torrent Freak. While The Pirate Bay moved to the cloud in October 2012, it continued to use web hosting services provided…

Apple to Settle In-App Purchase Lawsuit With Free iTunes Credit

Apple has announced that it’s to settle a class action lawsuit about in-app purchases—that could have involved more than 23 million App Store users!—by bunging the affected parties free iTune credit. The case was brought by disgruntled parents, whose children had racked up massive bills on virtual items inside free iOS games. Apple will settle…

When Apple’s Engraving Service Goes Wrong

When Redditor jayhawk503 bought his new iPod, he got more than he bargained for. He claims he didn’t want any damn engraving. We’re not sure how true that is, but it’s funny nonetheless. [Reddit via Geekosystem]

Google is toying with the idea of adding audio indicators to Chrome, to help show you noisy tabs. Praise be! [TNW]

The Asus Padfone Has Finally Come of Age

Asus has just announced the latest version of its previously awkward Padfone—but this time round, it seems that the hardware might live up to previous promises. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-padfone-lets-it-all-hang-out-5952089 The new device—which allows you to dock a smartphone into a bigger screen to create a tablet, just like the older versions—certainly delivers on specs. The phone offers…

White Moleskines Add Two Extra Pages To Write On

If you’re looking for a more virginal note-taking experience, Moleskine has just the thing: it’s just launched a new line of all-white notebooks for you to scrawl in. Ideal for the very clean, these notebooks stretch sleek minimalism to the stationery extreme: the elastic closure, ribbon bookmark and inner pocket are all resplendent in the…

LG’s Ultra HD Streaming Blasts 4K Video From Phone to TV

LG has been showing off the first example of wireless Ultra HD steaming at MWC: It can take video from a phone, playing at 1080p, upscale it on the fly, and show it off at 4K on a TV. The technology uses Wi-Fi and Miracast to manage that, essentially mirroring phone content on a big…

How to Smile Naturally For Photographs

Looking happy in a photograph is a tall task for many people. But don’t worry, because this little video will teach you how to look naturally cheery whenever somebody points a camera your way. Rule number one: Don’t say cheese. Ever. Instead, you should say something that ends in an “uh” sound. But there’s far…

LG Has Acquired webOS From HP to Power Smart TVs (Updated)

LG has just announced that it has acquired the much-troubled webOS from HP, reports CNET. But instead of using it to power smartphones or tablets, it’s planning to roll out smart TVs which will make use of the OS. Update: CNET has seems to have pulled the original story from its website. It’s not clear…

Every Windows Phone 8 Device Will Get Nokia’s Stellar Navigation Software (Update: Starting Now)

Nokia has announced that it is to share its Drive, Maps and Transit apps with other Windows Phone handsets. Under the new name Here, users of non-Nokia handsets will finally be able to use the Finns’ excellent navigation software. However, Nokia does point out that the “first and best” versions of the software will remain…

Facebook’s Providing Free (Or Cheap) Data Around the World—For Facebook Apps

Facebook has announced that, over the coming months, it will be partnering with 18 network operators in 14 countries to provide users with free or discounted data for some of its mobile apps. Specifically, it’ll let users of Messenger for Android and iOS, and Facebook for Every Phone (the Java app for feature phones), save…

Samsung officials have confirmed that the Galaxy S IV be launched at a March 14th event in New York. https://gizmodo.com/report-the-galaxy-s-iv-is-definitely-being-announced-o-5985135

5 Amazing Scientific Discoveries We Don’t Know What to Do With

Every day, scientists make discoveries that change the way we live. But sometimes, just sometimes, they achieve results that are so extraordinary or unexpected that they literally don’t know what to do with them. Here are five of the most puzzling. Mind-bending material properties In January, a team of physicists from Rutgers and MIT published…

Inside an Amish Tech Trade Show

You’d be unlikely to see many Amish folks at CES or MWC or any other technology expo—because, for a start, many of them don’t use electricity. But don’t feel sorry for them, because they have a trade show all of their own. While Amish people might not use tablets, computers or phones, they still need…