‘Being in a friendly old-fashioned unlimited ultra fast fibre broadband relationship makes me happy’, says Matt Heath. Photo / 123RF I recently broke up with my long-term telco.
Category: Cellphones
Inside DARPA’s Plan To Create GPS Systems For Undersea Submarines
GPS is one of those amazing technologies we use every day and kind of take for granted, allowing us to navigate our hometowns and any other destination without really having to think about it. But what many people don’t realize is GPS signals don’t penetrate seawater, making the already difficult act of undersea submarine navigation-and threat-mitigation-that much harder.
Dialling back time: Nokia 3310 ‘will be re-released this month’
It was one of Nokia’s most successful phones, selling around 126 million handsets worldwide when it was launched 17 years ago. And now it looks like HMD Global, owner of the Nokia brand, are bringing back the iconic Nokia 3310 mobile phone handset.
John Rosemond: No good reason children need smart phones Updated at
As regular readers of this column already know, I am completely, one hundred percent opposed to children, including teenagers still living at home, being in possession of smart phones.
‘Landline’: Film Review | Sundance 2017
Jenny Slate reteams with Gillian Robespierre, who directed her in ‘Obvious Child,’ for this look at adultery and dysfunctional New York families, co-starring Edie Falco, John Turturro, Jay Duplass and Abby Quinn. The core talents who helped to make 2014’s unwanted pregnancy comedy Obvious Child such a delight — writer-director Gillian Robespierre, writer-producer Elisabeth Holm and lead actor-executive producer Jenny Slate reteam here for Landline , a more ambitious effort with a crack supporting cast.
Trends with Benefits: CES 2017 with Dan Cogan of The UnLockr
Each week, we gather a roundtable of tech experts from the Digital Trends staff, along with the occasional celebrity guest, to discuss all things tech. Topics range from the big tech stories of the week to predicting the future, all while maintaining a somewhat civil decorum.
Want a hippo for Christmas? The story of a girl who got one
All a cute, curly haired 10-year-old girl named Gayla Peevey wanted for Christmas in 1953 was a hippopotamus. And amazingly enough, after “I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas” became the biggest hit song of that holiday season, she actually got one, a 700-pound baby named Matilda.