There’s not much you can do with mouldy bread…but in the future it could be useful to charge up your mobile phone. Scientists at the University of Dundee in Scotland have been playing around with some mouldy sandwiches and have discovered that rare red bread mould that has electrochemical properties. So far they’ve had promising results using the mould to[Read More…]
Just when you thought smartphones couldn’t get any bigger…they didn’t. Available in stores from Thursday this week, the new iPhone SE will feature a 4-inch display, yet Apple has packed it with plenty features to ensure it’s best in class. For starters the iPhone SE will feature the same processor chip as the iPhone 6s and 6s plus, 12 megapixel camera with[Read More…]
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the very first “Tweet”. Twitter, the online social networking service which now carries over 500 million tweets per day, has 241 million monthly active users and support over 35 languages. So what did that first tweet say? Two years ago after Twitter turned 8 I spoke to Karen Stocks, the managing director of Twitter Australia. She[Read More…]
If you’ve been enjoying the best of Netflix TV shows and movies from regions other than Australia you may now have a real problem on your hands. Last weekend Netflix applied an update which appears to have successfully blocked all the unblocking services like Getflix and Unotelly that allowed Australians to tap into the full potential of Netflix. Needless to[Read More…]
You could possibly blame one man for all the spam in your inbox, however just over a week the inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, passed away at the age of 74. You may not realise that email is actually older than the modern internet and was a work in progress back in 1971. At the time Ray knew he[Read More…]
