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A Tesco listing, which has now been pulled, declared the name for this year’s Call of Duty release ‘Ghosts’. The listing also leaked the cover art for PS3 and Xbox 360, pictured above. Shortly after, Target released an advert offer involving a discount for CoD: Ghosts reservations, that stated the release date to be 5th [...]

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In a letter to Prime Minister Cameron, signed by no fewer than ten academics in the cybersecurity field, HM Government is asked to drop the controversial Communications Data Bill. The Bill, which has been the subject of much debate and controversy, would – if passed – require telecommunications operators to record “communications data” for a [...]

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CrowdMed is an online tool that uses algorithms to analyse crowdsourced diagnoses for your illness, in an attempt to come up with an accurate diagnosis for you to cope with accordingly – it obviously cannot issue you a prescription. The startup is led by Jared Heyman of Infosurv, and is at present backed by several [...]

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The Leap Motion controller, which allows you to control your PC or Mac through wild gestures, is all set to launch next month, and now Google is ready to join the party with an update to Google Earth that allows gesture control with the Leap Motion controller. Earth will be available in Leap’s appstore ‘Airspace’, [...]

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Google has started shipping Glass to those lucky enough to be chosen as ‘Explorers’; given early access to the product we’ve all been waiting for. In order to get a nice database full of compatible apps in time for wider launch later this year, they’ve also released documentation for so-called Mirror API (geddit?) for Java, [...]

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Want the new iPhone every year, but stuck on a two-year contract? O2s latest initiative, dubbed ‘Refresh’, allows its customers to upgrade their phone before the end of their 24-month contract. They attempt to make the model work, by splitting the contract into two plans: Phone Plan, which covers the cost of your chosen smartphone [...]

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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into purchases made inside free games on mobile applications and the web; specifically aimed at children. The OFT is concerned that such free games may be misleading children who, naively believing the world is free, click a way purchasing gems, fruit, fruity gems, and coins; [...]

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For all the excitement across social media in anticipation for Google’s latest venture, Glass, each post is also awash with complaints from those to whom glasses are already a thing they can’t live without – unlike those of us who merely aspire to be reliant on a pair of spectacles. It has been widely expected [...]

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Google Glass is a really exciting product, at least to some, and I certainly include myself in that boat. Glass uses a small and transparent micro-emissive display to provide an overlay to your natural view, alert you of notifications from your smartphone, and render turn-by-turn navigation, right in front of you as you walk. Joshua [...]

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In January Facebook launched free calls from its Messenger app as a trial in Canada, and recently rolled it out to the US too. Now, Facebook has launched the feature within the main Facebook app (as opposed to purely the Messenger companion) – making Facebook the newest entrant to the VoIP game, but also the [...]

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