It’s that time of year again when we look back at some of the news stories we’ve covered in 2017 and update you on later developments. We round up the year starting in September when Google announced Chrome would let users block websites (on a domain-by-domain basis) from autoplaying videos with sound. That’s now been […]
It’s that time of year again when we look back at some of the news stories we’ve covered in 2017 and update you on later developments. Turning to July, staff at the Large Hadron Collider discovered the first “double heavy particle”. Every particle is made up of a combination of six quarks that are each […]
It’s that time of year again when we look back at some of the news stories we’ve covered in 2017 and update you on later developments. Turning to May, Elon Musk announced he’d formed “The Boring Company” to advance his dream of a series of underground tunnels beneath to carry cars on sled-like platforms, switching […]
It’s that time of year again when we look back at some of the news stories we’ve covered in 2017 and update you on later developments. Turning to March, Richard E Grant said it was time for a female lead in Doctor Who. Four months later he got his wish with the unveiling of Jodie […]
It’s that time of year again when we look back at some of the news stories we’ve covered in 2017 and update you on later developments. We kick off in January when Razer showed off its design for a fold-out triple-screen laptop for ‘big’ screen gaming on the move. It turned out to be so […]
A newly created glass polymer can ‘heal itself’ without the need for extreme heat. But suggestions it could be used for phone screens might be a reach. Several polymers already exist with self-healing properties, meaning that with the application of heat they can reform their bonds and thus repair cracks. Aside from the fact that […]
Apple has admitted it does intentionally slow down older model iPhones, but says it’s to make them work more reliably rather than to push people into upgrading. The admission comes despite recent benchmarking that suggested the idea older iPhones suddenly get slower when a new model is released is a myth. Benchmarking company Futuremark said […]
A new Portal game is out, but it’s not the sequel you might be hoping for. And no, you’re not the first person to note it’s a case of Valve being allergic to 3. The game’s title of Bridge Constructor Portal functionally explains which two games it has merged, and it’s one of those partnerships […]
Chrome’s next edition will let you block entire sites from autoplaying videos when you visit a page. It will also have a couple of new tricks for fighting rogue pop-ups. The changes debut in Chrome 64, which is already out in the Beta channel, meaning it should be rolled out in the standard edition in […]
A new iPhone game lets you control a character with your eyebrows. It’s mainly an experiment to use a new feature on the iPhone X camera. Rainbrow plays a little like Frogger, albeit without any side-to-side motion controls. You simply move a character up and down between seven rows of a rainbow trying to hit […]