Cryptocurrencies have been around for less than a decade, and in that time, they’ve managed to become one of the most talked-about and misunderstood topics in the world. From their origins to their eventual future, there are a lot of myths and misconceptions about cryptocurrencies. In this post, we’ll dispel some of the most common…
It’s 3 pm on a Friday, and an email containing an offer for a set of headphones drops into your inbox. Excited – it’s payday – you open it, scanning the offers for the pair you want, click through to the headphone company’s website. What you might not know is, marketing emails like this are…
BACK IN 2014, bioengineer Ryan Pandya had a demoralising encounter with a bagel. It wasn’t so much the bagel itself as its filling, a “bland and runny” substance made from soya which was supposed to resemble cream cheese. Pandya was a recent convert to veganism and was struggling to give up dairy products. But when…
Dark mode is here to help with a feeling many people will be familiar with the feeling: after hours spent looking at screens your eyes get tired and the white background of just about every web page and the app can seem blinding, no matter how low you turn down the brightness. It switches the…
You should always factory reset any gadget before you sell it online or donate it to a charity, friend or family member. This not only wipes any potentially sensitive data, but it also puts it back into the state you’d find when first unpacking the thing. Below you’ll find a primer on how to factory reset almost…
Scotland’s first hybrid-electric plane has taken to the skies at a new test centre in Orkney. US-based aviation company Ampaire has replaced one of the piston engines in their retrofitted Cessna aircraft with a compact electric motor. Ampaire believes hybrid technology could pave the way to flying inter-island and short haul routes with greener technologies….
Google is the latest manufacturer to bid farewell to the in-box charging brick, saying it expects the Pixel 5A will be the last phone to include one. That means the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro won’t include one when they arrive this fall. The company says that most people already have a USB-C charging brick, so…
iPhone 13 launch has reportedly been reiterated for the third week of September in a note to investors by a market analyst at the wealth management firm Wedbush Securities. Apple is also predicted to have the iPhone 13 representing 35 to 45 per cent of the total iPhone production in the third quarter of this…
The magnetic strip began life in the 1960s as a means to create an identity for staff of the US spy agency, Central Intelligence Agency, by IBM. Forrest Parry, one of its engineers, had the idea of sticking information encoded on a strip of magnetic tape to a plastic card, but was struggling to join the…
