CES 2022: The weirdest and most wonderful gadgets on display

Every year, the CES show floor is filled with the most bizarregadgetsand concepts you can imagine. Sure, big corporations announcebig TVs,flashy monitors, andfast CPUs— but for me, weird stuff is the best part of CES. Even though few people are attending the event in person, the joy of technology means we can still enjoy the strangest things on show. LG’s OLED fitness bike Can’t go on a bike ride? Worry not....

4 min · 680 words · Corey Miller

ChaCha brings its text-based mobile Q&A service to the UK

ChaCha, the US-based Q&A service for mobile phones, has today announced it’s launching in the UK. This means that if you’re looking for an answer to any question, including phone numbers, addresses, trivia and any other tidbit, you can text 85852 and receive a human-generated personalized response. As you may already know, the UK already has similar text-based Q&A services such as63336, which was launched initially as Any Question Answered (AQA) back in April 2004....

3 min · 531 words · Benjamin Hudson

Change.org latest victim of DDoS attacks after hosting online petition to release Chinese activist

Change.org, an online petitioning platform, is the latest victim of an organized distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack allegedly originating from China, believed to be caused by the site’s call to release artist Ai Weiwei from custody. Under theDDoStactic, malicious codes infect computers to trigger mass attacks against targeted websites. The attacks, which started late Sunday, have nearly brought down the site. According to Change.org founder Ben Rattray, “the current attack originates from an expanding group of computers primarily based in China, and has yet to stop....

2 min · 279 words · David Allen

Channel 4 iPad app concept points to the future of TV apps

UPDATE:Unfortunately, this great concept video has been taken offline. A shame, as we loved it. Still, read the description – we’d love to see an app like this come to fruition. UK broadcasterChannel 4has an online catchup and archive TV service called4oD, which launched aniPad appearlier this year. While the app that was released is usable and functional, it’s nowhere near as interesting as whatcouldhave been. London-based developerThe Noble Unionpitched for the job of building the app together withMobile IQbut didn’t get the gig....

2 min · 356 words · Deborah Watson

Chaos isn’t always a bad thing

Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox bysigning up for his newsletter! When it was time to pick a school for my youngest daughter, we visited a few to see which one would be a good fit. The first one was the most prestigious, and it showed....

4 min · 745 words · Lauren Jackson
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