Microsoft’s latest games console and successor to the hugely successful Xbox 360 was revealed by the company today to much fanfare. It is called the Xbox One and has some very impressive specifications and capabilities. It is being billed as an all in one entertainment center for your living room. One thing that many gamers have been interested in finding out is whether or not the new console will be [...]

The global financial crisis is claimed by many to have begun back in 2007 and to have started primarily in America due to a huge housing bubble and the massive issue of sub-prime lending. People who were unable to buy a house were lent money to, even if they had little or no chance of being able to pay back these loans. This seemed okay while the economy was stable, [...]

If you’re cynical, and lets face it many of us are, then this story will hopefully go some way to restoring your faith in humanity. A story has emerged on the popular blogging site Tumblr about a waitresses’ amazing tip from a supremely generous stranger. Ironically this post came from the waitresses daughter, who’s username on Tumblr is Casual Cynic. According to Casual Cynic’s blog post her mother has a [...]

It seems everyone is using social media these days,so you probably think you know social. Did you know that not everyone uses the same social media sites though? According to user data and statistics, different sites have different appeals, depending on which demographic group you belong to. This includes which age bracket you fit into, your gender and even which racial group you are in. If you are in any [...]

There has been much publicity recently in both the U.S. and the UK regarding the tax practices of large multi-national corporations such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks. These companies have been accused of using various loopholes within the tax rules of the various countries in which they operate to avoid paying millions of dollars of tax even though they make billions of dollars of profit. This is all linked with [...]

Of course complete privacy is probably too much to expect in this day and age, especially if you use the internet regularly. We have all become accustomed to sharing content online, social media profiles, and interacting with others via instant messages/internet phone calls. You would hope though that a level of privacy would still be in place for your text and voice conversations though with friends and family. It seems [...]

  A man in Florida has managed to kill a 19 foot python which was on the side of a road. Jason Leon was travelling home when he spotted around 3 foot of the python sticking out of nearby bushes. It is not clear how Jason ended up in a battle with the snake, but it managed to wrap itself round Jason’s leg, and he was forced to pull his [...]

Initial reports suggested that 51 people had lost their lives in the Oklahoma Tornado, however BBC News has now stated that the death toll stands at 91. We are not yet sure if this is a typo, as they appear to be the only place making this statement, and all other sites state that the death toll is 51, including at least 20 children. UPDATE: Other UK news agencies including [...]

Flickr is a great service for saving all your digital photographs online, creating sets, sharing with friends, and checking out billions of images uploaded by users across the world. Free users have felt that parent company Yahoo! have neglected them though, as there was a fairly small limit on how many photographs could be uploaded each month. Also only a certain number of photos could be seen if you were [...]

The Oklahoma Tornado is big news today. So far 51 people have been reported killed, including at least 20 children. Images have been popping up all over the web of the tornado, but the following 10 images are what we found to be the most powerful, from photographers at the scene of the devastation. What has been the most powerful image you have seen of this natural disaster? Let us [...]