Author: Alex Lowe

Jaguar Land Rover is testing 100 autonomous cars

With autonomous driving, Jaguar isn’t late to the game as such, in the last year or so Ford, Mercedes and of course Tesla has been experimenting with self and autonomous driving technology each with varying results. Now Jaguar Land Rover is ramping up it’s development of semi-autonomous cars. Earlier today the company announced that it has plans to use around 100 cars in total to research and develop it’s technology quickly. […]

Some apps in macOS Sierra might have Dark Mode

With last years OS X Yosemite, Apple released a Dark Mode addition to the operating system, when enabled it turns the dock and menu bar darker as opposed to the translucent iOS esque feel, now with the macOS Sierra which is still being worked on Apple may be looking at bringing this stealthier look to the rest of the operating system. This news has come from a user on Twitter who […]

Samsung has a 4TB SSD – be prepared for the cost

In recent years, Samsung has become the king of SSD storage and the innovation and new products for the storage market, not only does the company create fantastic televisions but also ground breaking new components for computers. Now this week Samsung has come out with a new SSD which has 4TB of onboard capacity, basically designed to replace your entire hard drive, but at a cost. The new 850 Evo despite […]

What is DNS?

In our latest ‘What is?’ article, we’re going to explore exactly what the Domain Name System or DNS actually is and also what it does as to even get to this website it involved the use of a DNS server. What is DNS? DNS effectively is a server or internet service which translates domain names into IP addresses. Behind the scenes the internet operates using IP addresses as if routers, computers, […]

Microsoft announces Skype Meetings, a free tool for SMBs

Microsoft today has unveiled a new free tool for small businesses, it’s basically a light version of Skype Business and allows users to video chat with up to 10 people for the first 60 days of using it and then only 3 thereafter, if you need more people Microsoft is basically saying purchase Office 365 which has Skype Business included. This new tool dubbed Skype Meetings is free for small […]

ICTP and CISAR use Ubiquiti airFiber and achieve 356mbps across 304km

A non profit organisation in Italy called The Centro Italiano Sperimentazione ed Attività Radiantistiche have achieved a super long distance wireless link using Ubiquiti’s airFiber backhaul radios and large dishes. The link spreads across the water half way and connects at 304km or 189 miles and still manages to transmit 356mbps in full duplex mode. The group used two Ubiquiti airFiber 5X radios which only cost around £400 each and two […]

Microsoft will show one more Windows 10 upgrade banner

For the past year, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 have been nagged to upgrade to the new Windows 10 operating system, many have upgraded, back in November Microsoft had achieved 132 million installs of Windows 10 and then in earlier February this year more people were using the new OS than XP users. Now as we’re in July, the last day that users can upgrade to Windows 10 is July 29 […]

802.11ac Wave 2 is now available for some routers

WiFi is something we all rely on and even though in the real world using ethernet cables in the home is much faster, this isn’t always practical and with smartphones and tablets – impossible. So this is why managing your home network and your wireless side important as interference, crowded channels and old routers using out of date wireless protocols can be your bottleneck for speed. 802.11ac debuted around 3 […]

BoseBuild aims to help kids build a speaker

Bose isn’t generally in the news that much, but in the past few weeks the company has revealed it’s new QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones, which are noise cancelling too. The new cans are getting all the praise in reviews and now Bose is back with another product and this time it’s very unconventional. It’s latest speaker called the Speaker Cube is aimed squarely (pun intended) at kids and is designed […]

Apple releases new betas for iOS, tvOS and OS X

Earlier this week Apple released new betas for iOS 9.3.3, OS X 10.11.6 and tvOS 9.2.2 and this is only a few weeks after the company released the first version of the software betas. Also it is only a week ago since Apple released the third beta of iOS 9.3.3, but this update has no new features just bug fixes to make it stable for release. OS X 10.11.6 and tvOS […]