If you’re struggling to save cash for your holiday, perhaps the Pavlok wristband is the thing for you. This wearable device can be linked to your bank account and will deliver a 255-volt shock to your arm when your account drops below a pre-set amount, the BBC reports. “Willpower is great if you’ve got it …
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UK telephone and broadband provider TalkTalk has seen its profits drop to £14 million, from £32 million the previous year, following a high profile attack last October, which cost the company £35 million. “We have significantly increased our spending on security. We take this extremely seriously,” TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding explained to the BBC. About 157,000 of TalkTalk’s 4 million …
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YouTube is souping up its mobile app with a new feature — an instant messaging service that lets you share and chat about your new favourite cat video without having to leave the app. The existing share option on a video will allow you to share the video directly to a contact, Wired reports. You’ll then be able to see …
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No longer just the best place to watch birds dancing to metal, YouTube will soon play host to the Champions League and Europa League finals, thanks to BT. BT will be streaming the matches for free on its YouTube channel to those of you in the UK. On 18 May, Liverpool will play Spanish team Sevilla in the UEFA Europa …
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A loophole in BBC’s iPlayer service, which allowed you to watch on-demand but not live TV shows without a licence, is to be closed, culture secretary John Whittingdale has confirmed. Whittingdale set out his intentions to close the loophole back in March, but has today confirmed those plans in a white paper detailing the BBC’s future. “The BBC works on …
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“Rad moves, bro!” “Wicked flip!” and “Seriously, are you OK? Do you need an ambulance?” are just some of the things you’ll hear from your friends, thanks to LG’s new 4G LTE-enabled action camera. Creatively titled the LG Action Cam LTE, it allows all your extreme-sports fun to be streamed live to YouTube in glorious full HD. Much like GoPro’s …
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If you want extra clarity in your gurning selfies but don’t have the cash to hand for Samsung’s stunning Galaxy S7, Vodafone’s new budget offering might be worth a look. It’s called the Smart Prime 7 and it’s available now for only £75 on pay as you go. For that small bundle of cash you’ll get a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, …
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Apple Music is getting cheaper for young people. In a bid to compete with rivals Spotify and Google Music, Apple is offering half-price subscriptions to its streaming service for students. Students in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany Denmark and New Zealand will be able to make use of the discount, TechCrunch reports. A monthly subscription to the service currently …
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Signing up to Vodafone? Now you can tweet to your heart’s content on holiday this summer as the network has scrapped roaming charges across 40 European countries as of today. Vodafone previously charged £3 per day to use roaming calls, texts and data across Europe. The new roaming plan will provide unlimited calls, texts and picture messaging and “up to” …
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Up next in “terrifying things I don’t ever want to have done”: Google has filed a patent for a vision-correcting electronic device that has to be injected directly into your eye. The device, Forbes reports, is designed to help the focusing of light onto the retina, resulting in the correction of poor vision. It will contain its own storage, radio …
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