Entries by billywright

WannaCry Hacker Arrested

Marcus Hutchins a British Cyber-Security researcher will appear in court in Vegas, whilst attending the Black Hat and Def Con cyber security conferences, charged with his involvement with Kronos – malware which steals banking logins from infected computers. Hutchins stopped the WannaCry Cyber-Attack which hit the NHS in May and the FBI arrested him on […]

Alcohol Memory

Apparently, according to researchers, getting mildly drunk after studying appears to make you remember stuff better than if you weren’t getting tipsy. University of Exeter carried out this amazing experiment on 88 lucky people whom identified themselves as social drinkers. They then undertook a word learning task and told to drink as much as they […]

Fake but looks totally REAL Barack!

The University of Washington have created technique that allows them to make a fake Barack Obama that makes him say whatever they want and it look really real!   They have used a neural network AI to model the shape of Obama’s mouth and to get the visual/audio they mapped the model to 14 hours […]

UK Government Plans To Ban Petrol/Diesel Cars By 2040

Reports by the Guardian and Financial Times have suggested that by 2040 the Government are setting up to ban the sale of Petrol and Diesel cars, as part of an air quality plan – this includes hybrids, electric only vehicles from 2040 would then only be possible. This is apparently a reaction to a recent […]

Drone’s Soon May Require TESTS!

The UK are pushing forward with more regulations on Drones. British Government have ruled that any RC aircraft that weighs over 350g (0.55lbs) will have to take a safety awareness test. Hoping that this will reduce the numbers of those flying drones near airports, as well as introducing geofencing to physically prevent the drones from […]

Husband Storage Pods

According to ‘The Paper’ a mall in Shanghai has set up storage pods to leave their husbands whilst they go shopping. But, it sounds like FUN! Inside each pod, there is a chair, a monitor, computer and a gamepad where guys can play retro 1990’s games. It’s currently free but it is said to be charging […]

Pokken Tournament DX

Now we can fight our favourite Pokemon and we cannot contain our excitement! Pokken Tournament DX is out in September. Play Pokken anytime, anywhere on Nintendo Switch – Play Pokken Tournament DX in TV mode, handheld mode, or share a Joy-Con controller with another Trainer to battle one-on-one in tabletop mode anywhere! A brand new […]

Race Kings

  This is RACE KINGS for iPhone and Android, it’s a hugely popular racing game that’s got everyone at the office hooked! See below more information on what it’s all about! Two drivers, one winner. Take every corner sideways in a scream of smoking tires, your rival just inches from your window, the finish line […]

Ollo Clip

The Olloclip is in an incredible piece of hardware, it’s a small device that attaches on to your iPhone’s camera that gives it that extra edge over the original camera that photographers crave: the fisheye, wide-angle and macro lenses. Now Olloclip sell a range of lenses, such as the flagship Olloclip 4 in 1 lens that […]