BT has secured exclusive rights to football’s two major European club competitions until mid-2021, in a deal that has big implications for British broadcasting. The telecoms giant has investe…
Withings CEO: Nokia’s name is ‘a very powerful weapon’
The Withings name is no more. From this summer, the now Nokia-owned brand has confirmed it will be inheriting the name of its partner company as it looks to tackle not just the wearable fitness mar…
The Internet Now Has Nearly 330 Million Domain Name Registrations: VeriSign
Nearly 2.3 million domain name registrations were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to 329.3 million, a new report revealed…
Nasty flaw found in Microsoft’s browsers leaves surfers on edge
Do you run one of Microsoft’s web browsers rather than Chrome or Firefox (or indeed another alternative)? Then be warned that a severe bug has been uncovered which could allow a malicious par…
SpaceX announces first-ever commercial flight to the moon will go ahead in 2018
Elon Musk’s venture in space exploration, SpaceX, has today announced that it will be sending two private citizens ‘to the moon’ late in 2018, in a move that’s a world-first…
Samsung just proved it doesn’t need the world’s largest mobile conference anymore
Mobile World Congress is underway in Barcelona. By most metrics it’s the largest conference in the world dedicated mostly to mobile technology and gadgets. And Samsung just punted. Mobile Wor…
Nasa discovers seven new exoplanets with great potential for alien life
We are living in a great age of discovery. We first confirmed the existence of an exoplanet, one orbiting another star, in 1992. Today, we know of more than 3,500. And Nasa just added seven more to…
This brain-computer interface lets paralysed people type faster than ever before
For several decades, medical researchers have been working on a way to turn brainwaves into instructions for an external device. These brain-computer interfaces, first developed in the 1970s, hold …
Robot insects are now faster than the real thing
Humans and other vertebrates run fastest by minimising their contact with the ground. But the same isn’t true of six-limbed insects, which run fastest when they have three legs on the ground …
Google and Bing will sink pirate sites to the depths of UK search engines
UK internet users will soon find it much harder to access pirated content via leading search engine’s results thanks to a new code of practice created by Google and Microsoft’s Bing. Sa…