I may be dating myself here, but I was totally one of those kids who wrote in 1337-speak all the time in high school. I blame it on Largo from the webcomic Megatokyo. Do people even speak 1337 anymore? The “leet-speak”...
Google has added one of the most memorable locations of the Harry Potter films to Google Street View: Diagon Alley, the place where wizards and witches in the Harry Potter universe can find everything they need. Spell books, potio...
I just hope no one falls inside.
It isn't an actual rainbow but it is still a spectacular photo wallpaper.
Start using your smartphone to monitor your eating habits and you will quick kick your phone to the curb.
Nokia is preparing to wow the world with the official announcement of the rumored Lumia 909 or 1020 Windows Phone 8 device with a massive 41-megapixel Pureview camera at the back. We’ve seen leaked images of the handset that highl...
The title says it all.
When visiting a page on Microsoft's website about Windows 8 downgrading rights, a "false" message appears.
Live cam at Mozilla's FirefoxLive page shows a crash message for Internet Explorer.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a Roomba and vacuum the floors of people’s rooms? No? Well, with Robot Vacuum Simulator 2013, you can find out anyway! The game is surprisingly not the first of its kind in ...
CNN fails and Firefox still hasn't properly implemented silent updates.
According to European reporters from Reuters that have seen a recent a draft of an action plan compiled by Western governments, a number of countries are setting their collective sights on massive technology companies, including A...
Zurich scientists have been building and experimenting with super small robots that can be used to help perform incredibly delicate surgical procedures on humans. The body on these nanobots is just a quarter-millimeter in diameter...
If you haven’t checked out the App Store on your iOS device in awhile, now might be a good time to do so. Actually, it might even be the best time to, and you should probably head on over there right this second! In anticipa...
Six months after Spotify landed on the Windows Phone 8 platform, the popular music streaming app is finally coming out of beta according to Joe Belfiore, the man who heads the Windows Phone team. Users should expect to see an upda...
Even if you’re not a regular, chances are you’ve heard of Reddit at some point. Especially if you live in the United States, where around six percent of American adults say they’ve visited the social news site, a...
Some smartphone manufacturers are starting to see their sales numbers decrease steadily, since almost every person in the world that is able to afford an expensive, high-end smartphone (which provide many of these companies with m...
Today’s the 66th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident and Google wants to remind everyone of that in their usual Google fashion. If you head over to Google’s homepage, you’ll be greeted with a cutely-designed ...
Adblock Plus is the most popular adblocking add-on around. dotTech recommends it and I am sure many dotTechies (including myself) use it. Indeed in the day and age where some websites have more ads than content, Adblock Plus is on...
According to the German news website Horizont, Google struck a deal with Eyeo, the company behind the extremely popular Adblock Plus add-on for web browsers. It seems that Google, along with a few other unnamed companies, has been...
It’s safe to say that the NSA is pretty low on the list of most people’s favorite government organizations these days (if people even make lists like that), but recent reports are also calling into question Google̵...
Love is bittersweet, and that’s a lesson that Apple is learning the hard way when it comes to its relationships with iPhone owners. It seems that while the iPhone 5 is the best-selling smartphone in the world, a recent study...
The problem with many solar powered vehicles is that there are simply to small and are not practical for carrying anything more than the driver — forget about passengers. A solar powered vehicle known as Stella, designed by ...
If you are like me then at some point you have forgotten one(or more) of your passwords. Even if you didn’t forget, passwords can still be vulnerable if strong ones aren’t created. What if you could log in to your acco...
Three meerkats are on the lookout at Knowsley Safari Park, UK.
I spy a supercell in Texas.
"I just read from multiple sources that Apple is doomed!"
With the plethora of touch screen smartphones and the number of touches these screen receive each day, they are bound to be dirty and germy. However Corning — makers of the now well known Gorilla Glass — have developed...
On Thursday, Patently Apple published a patent application turned in by Apple in December 2011 for the creation of a flexible battery shape that is made up of a a number of different cells connected to one another through a lamina...
University Hospitals has recently announced a “bionic eye” which will assist persons suffering from an advanced stage of retinitis pigmentosa to see. (Retinitis pigmentosa is, according to Wikipedia, “an inherite...
According to an iClarified report, Apple is reported to be toying with the idea of an offline iteration of voice dictation in their upcoming iOS 7. Currently, Apple’s voice dictation is done using an app called Siri which de...
After what seems like forever, Microsoft has finally brought PDF support for SkyDrive, Outlook.com, and Office 365 using Word Web App. This has been a feature many users have been asking Microsoft to implement for quite some time,...
When it comes to smoking cigarettes, there’s nothing good about it as such practices are one of the leading cause of throat cancer, but who cares about that when the itch to have a smoke takes over the whole body. The world view s...
Recently I covered a pretty neat Windows program that added an Android Sense-like widget to the desktop called HTC Home. It’s a desktop clock that also shows weather updates, but it does have some quirks. What if you don’t want th...
Apps, apps, apps. Today’s handsets are all about the apps, and it only seems right. Mobile handsets are designed to get you in and out fast while you’re on the go, and that’s exactly what apps do- well, most of them anyway. What c...
