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£5,000 Photography Competition – Enter Before Deadline Closes

June 3, 2015

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There’s just a few weeks left enter an international photography competition with a £5,000 prize. Lots of entries have already been received, but the organisers of the competition at the Guernsey Photography Festival have issued a final call for submissions before the competition closes. The award is open to anyone, professional or amateur, aged 18 and over, who has developed, or is developing, a coherent, artistically driven body of work in the field of contemporary photography. You can enter work…

Sony And Samsung Make Cash Off Apple iPhone, Reports

June 2, 2015

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Parts made by smartphone rivals Samsung and Sony are reportedly inside the iPhone. Sony’s reported $20 per iPhone Sony is the world’s largest supplier of image sensors in digital cameras and, according to the respected Wall Street Journal, two Sony-made image sensors and related parts are contained in each iPhone 6. It reportedly generates as much as $20 (£13.10) per phone for Sony. Sony-built components are also in Samsung’s Galaxy S6, according to the same recent report. Samsung-made chips inside iPhones?…

Windows 10 To Be Released ‘For Free’ On July 29

June 1, 2015

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Users of Windows will able to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system for free, says Microsoft. Windows 10 will be initially available for release for PCs and tablets, although you will need to be running the latest version of Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 update. And customers will be able to get an upgrade for free within the first year of release. Microsoft has promised Windows 10 will be faster than ever, work across different devices and bring…

Woman Throws Out Rare $200,000 Apple Computer For Recycling

June 1, 2015

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But E-recycling company says there’s a $100,000 (£65,492.17) cheque waiting for her. Silicon Valley based CleanBayArea is looking for the woman who dropped off the rare Apple 1 computer, produced in the 1970s, among a couple of boxes of e-waste about a month ago. She told them she had decided clear up her garage after her husband had passed away. The woman did not leave any contact information, and a couple of weeks later a recycling manager found the computer –…

Amazing Photo! Seagull ‘Photobombs’ Red Arrows – Flies In Formation

May 28, 2015

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Ultimate photobomb picture taken using an old mobile phone shows seagull flying alongside the famous Red Arrows aerobatic display team. This fantastic photo was taken by Lesley Jane Bond, a support worker for adults with learning disabilities, at the Llandudno Air Show in Wales last Saturday. She said: “There were loads of people with zoom lenses, etc, so I felt a bit ridiculous pointing my old battered Samsung Galaxy 3 Mini in the air!! “I just pointed it at the sky…

The First Digital Camera Was Invented In 1975

May 27, 2015

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It was the size of a toaster and captured images at a resolution of 0.01 megapixels. It weighed in at a hefty 3.6kg (8lbs) and recorded the first black and white image onto a cassette tape – a process that took 23 seconds. These specifications might seem meagre to a modern reader. But the invention of the digital camera by Steven Sasson at Kodak in 1975 launched a revolution that has turned us all into photographers. Film cameras have pretty much been swept…

Watch: Working Hoverboard Set New World Record

May 26, 2015

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Farthest journey by hoverboard (Guinness World Records/YouTube) Marty McFly eat your heart out! Canadian Catalin Alexandru Durum flies 275.9m (905ft 2in) on self-made hoverboard in his own case of back to the future. And it’s been declared a world record by the Guinness World Records, which has posted footage of the flight on its YouTube channel. The flight was achieved over Lake Ouareau in Quebec, Canada, on 25 August 2014 on a machine built and designed by the flyer, who said he was the…

Real-life Star Trek Enterprise‬ ‘lands’ in China

May 26, 2015

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Chinese businessman builds headquarters that look like the USS Enterprise starship. Definitely a case of make it so! Businessman and Trekkie Liu Dejian was granted a licence to boldly build where no one has built before, and spend a reported £100 million building the headquarters for NetDragon Websoft in China’s Fujian Province. Construction started in 2008 and ended in 2014, with the building featuring 30 foot metal slides between levels and automatic sliding gates. More Top Stories – Click Below Amazing Photo! Seagull ‘photobombs’ Red Arrows…

Space station to get ‘Death Star’ laser to blast space junk?

May 19, 2015

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Researchers have come up with a laser system to destroy space junk threatening the International Space Station. It may sound all a bit like the Death Star from Star Wars, but there is a serious risk to the space station from space junk. Even a metal screw could cause damage, which puts the fact that there could be as much as 3,000 tonnes of junk floating around the Earth into perspective. Japanese researchers are installing a new “Extreme Universe Space…

Goldfish Now Have Longer Attention Span Than Humans…

May 18, 2015

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Average human attention span is 8 seconds compared to 9 seconds for a goldfish, according to research. Apparently, the average human attention span in 2000 was 12 seconds but in 2013 it was 8 seconds – 1 second less than that a goldfish. The statistics have been highlighted in a new report from Microsoft, which draws on research into the digital lifestyles of Canadians and finds the ability to remain focussed on a single task – particularly in the non-digital world –…

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