Years ago, the idea of wearing a watch – let alone a smartwatch or fitness tracker – was an alien idea to me. I’d grown up not wanting or needing a timepiece attached to my arm and later, when mobile phones became ubiquitous, I’d always had one with me for timekeeping purposes. I didn’t need any of the fitness-tracking because …

First developed as a tool that could be used to see through walls, that humble amorphous solid has a wide array of applications that have helped create technological breakthroughs. Microsoft is looking to use glass for the next big step forward in information preservation for their Azure platform, with the most recent proof of concept being the transfer of the entire 1978 Superman movie to something that’s the mere size of a beer coaster.

Yesterday, Facebook (the company, not the social media platform)announced that it was doing a great big rebrand, and will no longer be known as Facebook. Instead, they’d prefer if you got shouty about things. The company will henceforth be branded as FACEBOOK, because of reasons.

Yesterday, Twitter boss Jack Dorsey announced that the platform would be banning all political advertising on Twitter from November. It’s an interesting, curious but mostly welcome move in age where misinformation on social media is used to sway voters.

The PDP Ultra Slim Charge System ably lives up to its promise of providing a handy station with which to charge your Xbox One controllers when you’re done. It’s a simple and elegant solution, that’ll result in you chucking your tangled micro-USB cables into the dustbin of history.

It appears Google and its parent company Alphabet may be making a bigger play in the wearables market as reports reveal they are is in talks to buy Fitbit.

Uber might be making massive losses in just about every area of its business right now, but that isn’t hampering their ambition in any way as the company continues to enter and test out new markets.

Wind back the clock by a few decades, and laptops were luxury items. Mobile computing on the go, this was the device of the businessman and the corporate climber, tools which were strictly for work and not play. These days, laptops (or notebooks as companies prefer you to call them so that they can avoid a lawsuit for scorched thighs), …