Astronauts will step outside the International Space Station to install a new British-built terminal that will allow them to connect to the internet at broadband speeds. NASA’s Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will venture outside at 12:05 GMT to undertake a six hour mission to mount the suitcase-sized device to the European Space Agency (ESA) … Read more
When Firefox released the next generation version of their Android browser, there were a lot of good things that users enjoyed about it. But one thing that was not well received was that they removed support for most of the extensions and had only a handful available. Since then there has been improvement as they … Read more
Local councils are planning to install just 9,317 public charge points for electric cars between now and 2025, which threatens to cause a huge ‘bottleneck in adoption’ to plug-in vehicles in the coming years. An average of 35 chargers per local authority are due to be provided in the next four years with 126 councils … Read more
The AA has announced this morning that it will provide around 5,000 free directional road signs to temporary vaccination centres in Britain to help guide local communities through the Covid-19 vaccination period. It said the signs, which are made from 100 per cent recycled plastic, will help people navigate to vaccination locations that are not local … Read more
Some firmware updates are stable while some come with their share of glitches. A fine example of the second is the rollout of the Android 11 update for the Xiaomi Mi A3. Some early adaptors of the update have reported it of hard bricking their devices. So, if you haven’t already updated, it is recommended … Read more
Huawei creates the best smartphones as far as hardware is concerned but the recent US ban prevents the Chinese giant from using Google Mobile Services (GMS), which is unfortunate. For an average user, the only option out is the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core with the accompanying suite of Google app clones which are not … Read more
A father-of-two graphics designer launched a one-man war to stop speeders by setting up a fake speed camera outside his house. Alexander Booth, 48, was sick of the frequent accidents on the busy stretch of B2149 outside his home in Bedhampton, Havant. He decided to pull a ‘prank with a serious message’ by putting up a fake … Read more
Tesco becomes latest supermarket to install TRAFFIC LIGHTS system on its store doors so shoppers know its safe to enter – after Aldi and Home Bargains did the same thing A new traffic light system at Tesco will tell customers whether it is safe to enter Supermarkets have had to control number of customers since … Read more
Tesco becomes latest supermarket to install TRAFFIC LIGHTS system on its store doors so shoppers know its safe to enter – after Aldi and Home Bargains did the same thing A new traffic light system at Tesco will tell customers whether it is safe to enter Supermarkets have had to control number of customers since … Read more
Android provides a sublime experience on a range of devices in addition to tablets and phones, but PCs are a little distant. Developers though port that experience with custom ROMs to PCs running on x86 Intel and AMD processors. In the latest such move, developers behind the Bliss OS have devised a project called the … Read more