Leap Motion

by | May 6, 2015

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Remember the bit in Minority Report where Tom Cruise moves things around on a screen by hand movements? Well the technology is here, and without the gloves – brought to you by Leap Motion, and costing just €89.99. Watch the video below, and check out their...
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WIRED’s security special

by | Apr 3, 2015

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In case you don’t know it, Wired is probably the best tech magazine around. They have just put together a security special, an accessible guide to encryption tools already on the market. In a world where cybercrime is transferring wealth on an unprecedented...
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Poets’ day

by | Jan 16, 2015

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Your view of the typical hacker is probably that they are a social misfit who spends all their waking hours (which are usually the hours of darkness) bent over their keyboards and typing impenetrable lines of program code into a remote system far far away, and...
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A glitch in time saves 9 minutes

by | Dec 20, 2014

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There’s a little gem of a restaurant near us. You know, one of those places where the service is with a smile, the food is beautifully cooked by Mae, the beer is cold and best of all, the expat and tourist hordes haven’t found it yet. No, I’m not...
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Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar

by | Dec 18, 2014

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First of all, a bit of history for younger readers: Back in the good old days we had halfpennies, which we pronounced ha’pennies. A halfpenny was worth – believe it or not – half a penny. But as prices increased, a halfpenny wasn’t really worth very much at all, and...
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Will Artifical Intelligence destroy humanity?

by | Dec 9, 2014

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Probably most people have seen Terminator, and are aware of the idea of machines becoming intelligent enough to outsmart the human race, and then decide that it would be a better world without the humans, and so decide to get rid of them. Recently some very smart...
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