Internet: Hilarious video resurfaces showing the retro technology used to check your emails in 1984

A hilarious video from 1984 demonstrating the now retro-looking — but then cutting-edge — technology used to check emails when travelling overseas has resurfaced. Posted on Twitter by news anchor Jon Erlichman, the British TV clip features one of the first-ever notebook-style computers and an acoustic coupler-style modem. In it, the presenter undertakes two attempts … Read more

Internet: Hilarious video resurfaces showing the retro technology used to check your emails in 1984

A hilarious video from 1984 demonstrating the now retro-looking — but then cutting-edge — technology used to check emails when travelling overseas has resurfaced. Posted on Twitter by news anchor Jon Erlichman, the British TV clip features one of the first-ever notebook-style computers and an acoustic coupler-style modem. In it, the presenter undertakes two attempts … Read more

Picture of a little girl seemingly ‘stuck in concrete’ baffles the internet

Picture of a little girl seemingly ‘stuck in concrete’ baffles the internet – so can you solve the illusion? A mother’s clever photo has ‘melted the brains’ of viewers with optical illusion The woman’s picture shows her daughter seemingly disappearing into concrete People looked at the photo for hours trying to work out where her … Read more

Picture of a little girl seemingly ‘stuck in concrete’ baffles the internet

Picture of a little girl seemingly ‘stuck in concrete’ baffles the internet – so can you solve the illusion? A mum’s clever photo has ‘melted the brains’ of viewers due to an optical illusion The mum’s picture shows her daughter seemingly disappearing into concrete People looked at the photo for hours trying to work out … Read more

Thousands of Santander customers unable to use mobile and internet banking due to ‘technical issues’

Thousands of Santander customers are unable to use mobile and internet banking and its app due to ‘technical issues’ Santander says it does not have ‘any timescales at the moment’ to fix problem  Some people are unable to use their debit and credit cards in supermarkets  Internet, mobile and app banking is down and phone … Read more

Thousands of Santander customers unable to use mobile and internet banking due to ‘technical issues’

Thousands of Santander customers are unable to use mobile and internet banking and its app due to ‘technical issues’ Santander says it does not have ‘any timescales at the moment’ to fix problem  Some people are unable to use their debit and credit cards in supermarkets  Internet, mobile and app banking is down and phone … Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Google team up to provide customers with Starlink internet coverage

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Google have joined forces to to deliver data, cloud services, and applications to customers at the network edge. This new partnership will see SpaceX setup ground stations at the tech giant’s data centers around the world, enabling the secure, low-latency, and reliable delivery of data from 1,550 Starlink satellites in orbit via … Read more

Local elections 2021: Blackburn Conservative candidate Tiger Patel becomes internet sensation

Vote for the ‘Bojo of Blackburn’! Tory candidate becomes internet sensation after posting bizarre campaign video in vandalised children’s playground Tiger Patel is the Conservative candidate for the Audley and Queen’s Park ward  Mr Patel – whose real name is Altaf – filmed his campaign video in a playground Taxi driver’s videos have amassed thousands of … Read more