6 Projects to Teach Your Kids Computing with Linux This Summer
How do you keep your child occupied and entertained whilst teaching them an important career skill during those long, summer months? These six projects will teach the basics of computing, with Linux at the heart.
Title IV Of The JOBS Act Lets Companies Crowdfund For Shares: What You Should Know
Title IV of the bill allows ordinary people to make direct investments in companies in exchange for equity (or shares). It's a radical change that could potentially revolutionize how savers invest their money.
Starting a Makerspace on a Budget? Here's The Equipment You'll Need
Makerspaces exist to provide a common space for members of the local maker community to work collaboratively on creative projects. Kitting out your own makerspace can be done cheaply, without any compromises on equipment.
6 Electric Cars You Can Actually Afford
Think you can't afford an electric car? Wrong. These six cars show how affordable electric cars have become.
Why Fraud Is a Real Threat to Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding, once novel and untested, has started to make its way into the mainstream. As a result, it has attracted scammers and fraudsters able to exploit the system and walk away with millions of dollars.
Why You Shouldn't Take Investment Advice from The Pirate Bay
It's almost a rule. The shadier the site you visit, the shadier the advertising will be. Ergo, you should never use the Pirate Bay's ads for planning your financial future.
Arrested for a Tweet: When Twitter, Trolling, and the Law Collide
The UK's communications act makes it a criminal offense to send "grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or false" electronic messages, but enforcement isn't equal.
How to Switch from BlackBerry to Android
Making the switch from BlackBerry to Android? Here's everything you need to know.
Microsoft Loves Apple – These Mac and iOS Apps Prove it
Stuffy, boring, insular. These are three adjectives that have been used to describe the Microsoft of yesteryear. But that Microsoft is gone. They've changed. Radically.
Celebrating 25 Years of Microsoft Solitaire: The History, Rules & a Tournament
Solitaire - the preserve of procrastinating office workers and bored housewives - is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and Microsoft is commemorating it with a group tournament. We re-visit the history and rules of the game.
Found a Suspicious File? Test It In A Virtual Machine!
Don't run that suspicious file on your PC to check if it alerts your anti-virus software - instead, find out what it is capable of by running the file in a virtual machine.
The Computer Misuse Act: The Law That Criminalizes Hacking In The UK
In the UK the Computer Misuse Act 1990 deals with hacking crimes. Twhis controversial legislation was recently updated to give the UK's intelligence organization GCHQ the legal right to hack into any computer. Even yours.
WebRTC Explained: What Is This API, and How Is It Changing the Internet?
WebRTC allows developers to build real-time applications, such as MMORPG games and video-conferencing tools, using open web technologies, like HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.
Decide Who to Vote for in the UK General Election
On May 7th, the British people will go to the polls and decide who will be governing the country for the next five years. Are you an undecided voter unsure where to put the cross?
Airwheel Q5 Review And Giveaway
Orthodontists of the world, rejoice. You're about to become very, very rich. Someone had the bright idea to attach an electric motor to a unicycle, creating the Airwheel Q5 in the process.
Meet Vivaldi: The Power User's New Favorite Browser
Meet Vivaldi; a beautiful new web browser aimed at power-users, built by the co-founder of Opera, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner.
Ello Just Had a Refresh, But Can It Be Saved?
For a brief moment, Ello was the hot digital property everybody wanted to be on. And then it all fizzled out. Now, if people mention Ello, it's to make the same tired joke.