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Nerds, rally around your computer screens and pay attention.

Next week, on September 1st, Steve Jobs and the team at Apple are reportedly making a HUGE announcement in San Francisco. No one knows for sure what the announcement might be about, but there are 3 strong rumors:

1. Apple is instituting a new "cloud-based music service" that will allow you to stream music wirelessly from your Apple devices.

2. A brand new iPod that ...

Australians have been able to make free phone calls to landlines and mobiles using a new Google Gmail feature that was only meant to officially launch this week in the US and Canada.

In a loophole, Australians who have their Gmail language set to "English US" are able to use the Google Voice plug-in for Gmail to make calls using the microphone on their computer. The service throws down a significant challenge to Skype and ...

Considered the Mt Everest of hacking, the PlayStation 3 has reportedly been broken by a USB Jailbreak dongle produced in Australia.

We will find out for sure when we get our hands on one in a week or two, but supposedly, using a USB dongle as the delivery mechanism available from Australian company OzModChips.com, has broken into the PlayStation 3 operating system. All for AU$170!

The idea is to allow users to dump copies (or ...

Reddened cheeks in abundance as an Xbox advert for Final Fantasy XIII is revealed as using footage from the PlayStation 3 game. Naughty, naughty!

The Xbox iteration of FFXIII is famously not up to scratch compared to the PS3 game. Others have blamed differences in each console’s capabilities for that, although that’s still no excuse for trying to fool punters into believing that the two versions are on a par, visually-speaking.

Either way, an eagle-eyed ...

AN Indian youth was killed when the Nokia mobile phone he was using exploded.

Manoj Singh, 24, was found dead last night with burns to his left ear, neck and shoulders in a forest near Bandha village close to the city of Kota in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, The Times of India said.

Police believe the youth was killed by an exploding mobile phone after finding pieces of the Nokia 1209 handset, a ...

A recycling company has modified a Volkswagen Beetle to run on human waste. Called the Bio-Bug, it's powered by methane gas generated during sewage treatment.

The remarkable car drives and performs exactly the same as the standard Beetle, except it can achieve a year's average mileage - 10,000 miles - from the toilet waste of 70 homes.

Created by GENeco in Bristol, the Bio-Bug does not use any new technology - in fact, China ...

U2 frontman Bono is hoping to cash in on Facebook by almost doubling his stake in the social networking site.

The singer's private investment company, Elevation Partners, already owns $80 million in shares in the company, but has now upped its stake to a whopping $140 million.

He's hoping that the investment will turn around a series of terrible financial decisions made in recent years.

His California-based company lost millions after a vast investment in ...

Seriously, even the ticking sound gives me shivers.

So you’ve started watching the World Cup in South Africa, you’re enjoying the games, but the thing that’s spoiling it for many are those vuvuzelas. Until FIFA gets around to banning them, there is another way of reducing the sound on your television. Dr Sean Marlow, lecturer in DCU’s School of Engineering, tells us how.

Marlow Method A


Step 1: enter the sound settings for your TV, ...