Internet Tutorials & How-Tos

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Posted by Alan Martin on June 12, 2018

Amazon Home Services: You can now book handymen, electricians and plumbers through Amazon UK

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Posted by Tim Danton on June 11, 2018

Quick poll: Too late to switch from Google?

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Posted by Alan Martin on June 11, 2018

EE is first UK network to launch smart number technology: Plan lets you share your number across all your devices

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Posted by Edward Munn on June 11, 2018

Exeter named worst place in the UK for broadband and 4G as national speeds are ranked: How does your town fare?

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Posted by Alan Martin on June 11, 2018

SpaceX plans its own futuristic patch at the Kennedy Space Center

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Posted by Adam Shepherd on June 8, 2018

WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins faces four new charges

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on June 8, 2018

A Bill Gates-backed firm just found a cheap way to make diesel from thin air

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Posted by Evan Gower on June 7, 2018

Donald Trump weighs in on Google’s record £3.8 billion Android antitrust fine

World Cup 2018 predictions made by Paul Merson, and data
Posted by Alan Martin on June 7, 2018

Germany will win and England will bow out to Brazil: Analytics firm predicts every result in the World

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on June 7, 2018

The £399 Sonos Beam is an Alexa-powered smart speaker for audiophiles

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Posted by Alan Martin on June 7, 2018

VPNFilter is worse than we thought: Rumours of the malware’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Dr Virginia Apgar Google Doodle reveals what is the Apgar score
Posted by Victoria Woollaston on June 7, 2018

How Dr Virginia Apgar saved the lives of thousands of babies with the Apgar score

Search the web without typing
Posted by Robert Irvine on June 6, 2018

Search the web without typing: How to use your voice, pictures and even songs to find what you want

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Posted by Bobby Hellard on June 6, 2018

Project Natick: Microsoft just plunged a 40ft-long data centre to the bottom of the North Sea

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Posted by Keumars Afifi-Sabet on June 6, 2018

MyHeritage suffers massive data leak affecting 92 million users

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Posted by Alan Martin on June 6, 2018

Tesco Direct launches closing down sale in bid to shift stock

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Posted by Joe Curtis on June 6, 2018

The UK government wants to use quantum computers to fight terrorism

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on June 5, 2018

No, you’re not being paranoid, your phone really IS listening to you

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Posted by Xanthe Mallett on June 5, 2018

Sex bots for good – where’s the evidence?

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Posted by Evan Gower on June 4, 2018

MacOS Mojave release date confirmed for September

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Posted by Alan Martin on June 4, 2018

Facebook shared data from millions of users with Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Blackberry, claims report

Einstein's Elevator experiment has been proved
Posted by Thomas McMullan on June 1, 2018

Atomic clocks have just proved Einstein’s “experimental elevator” theory

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Posted by Edward Munn on June 1, 2018

Google blames Wikipedia “vandalism” for search results linking California Republican Party to Nazism

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Posted by Andy Shaw on May 31, 2018

How to see which Android apps are spying on you

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on May 31, 2018

Touching exhibition uses the power of tech to probe the isolating impact of dementia

Google Home app how to set up
Posted by Keumars Afifi-Sabet on May 31, 2018

Your smart speaker could be at risk of ‘voice squatting’ hackers trying to steal your private data

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on May 31, 2018

What happens when a supermassive black hole devours a star? This computer model gives us some clues

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Posted by Alex Lee on May 31, 2018

Reddit pips out Facebook to become the third most popular site as it rolls out chat rooms

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Posted by Evan Gower on May 31, 2018

Article 13 approved: What are the EU copyright law amendments?

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on May 30, 2018

We just took a step closer to unlocking the mysteries of black holes using next-level supercomputer code

Fortnite players hit by free V-Bucks scam on YouTube videos and sites
Posted by Victoria Woollaston on May 30, 2018

The free V-Bucks hoax: Fortnite scammers are using YouTube and phishing tricks to steal logins and private data

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on May 29, 2018

Physicists invent a Back to the Future-style flux capacitor; have no plans to travel back in time

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 28, 2018

Not just for humans: Facial recognition can work for chimps, monkeys and lemurs too

Everything Amazon knows about you
Posted by Jonathan Parkyn on May 25, 2018

Revealed: What Amazon knows about you and how to delete it

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on May 25, 2018

Bizarre case sees Alexa record and share a family’s private conversation, Amazon admits

Champions League Final 2018 Real Madrid Liverpool facing hacking threat
Posted by Bobby Hellard on May 24, 2018

Champions League Final faces hacking threat: VPNFilter malware could bring down the Real Madrid versus Liverpool game

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on May 24, 2018

From Razer to Yeelight, Instapaper and Unroll.me: More services go dark across the UK as companies miss GDPR deadline

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 23, 2018

Ease yourself to sleep with the smooth sounds of GDPR regulation read by the Shipping Forecast guy

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Posted by Edward Munn on May 23, 2018

“It’s probably the most complex undertaking in sport ever”: Is VAR ready for the 2018 World Cup in Russia?

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Posted by Hugo Griffiths on May 23, 2018

White hat hackers uncover 14 software and hardware security flaws in a range of BMWs

Amazon Spring Bank Holidays Deals
Posted by Victoria Woollaston on May 23, 2018

Amazon Spring Bank Holiday deals: Amazon cuts the price of its Echo, Fire TV Stick and Fire tablet ranges

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 23, 2018

A car dealership asks customer to prove she’s not a robot…by ticking a printed CAPTCHA box

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Posted by Joe Curtis on May 22, 2018

University of Greenwich fined £120,000 for leaking data of 20,000 students and staff

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Posted by Alex Lee on May 22, 2018

Get ready for even more Nokia phones! HMD secures another $100 million to continue its aggressive smartphone push

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on May 22, 2018

London one of the most polluted and dangerous cities in Europe when it comes to transport and road safety, report finds

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 22, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre, the sequel: Google and Microsoft have discovered a new CPU flaw

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Posted by Edward Munn on May 22, 2018

Google sued for “secretly tracking millions of UK iPhone users”

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Posted by Tim Danton on May 21, 2018

Quick poll: Has Facebook changed its spots?

Roaming Mantis malware
Posted by Keumars Afifi-Sabet on May 21, 2018

Millions of Android and iOS users at risk of Roaming Mantis malware infecting phones via compromised Wi-Fi routers

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Posted by Alex Lee on May 21, 2018

Sensitive data about children was left out in the open by controversial tracking app Teen Safe