Author: Tom Pritchard
Natwest and RBS are adding TouchID to their iOS banking apps
The Royal Bank of Scotland group, the owner of RBS and Natwest, has announced that from today iPhone users will be able to accessits mobile banking apps using Apple's TouchID fingerprint scanner. Setting up TouchID within the RBS and Natwest iOS apps will allow customers to access a limited number of mobile banking services without having to type…
Lenovo has been caught installing adware onto its computers [Updated]
Having bloatware installed on your devices is a sad fact of life these days, but Lenovo has just been caught installing something much, much worse. The Chinese technology manufacturer has been caught installing adware onto its own products, and then selling them on to consumers. Lenovo has been installing a piece of software called Superfish, a…
Art+Feminism announces its second Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Yesterday, Art+Feminism announced that its second announced its second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at New York's Museum of Modern Art on 27th March from 4pm to 10pm GMT. The event is designed to generate coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, as well as encouraging female editorship of Wikipedia's content. A survey in…
Apple has ordered 5 million Apple Watches ready for launch
As we get closer to the launch of the Apple Watch, it becomes more apparent that Apple is really gearing up for the final push that will put it into Apple Stores across the world. From the sounds of things it's going to be a big push, because Apple has apparently ordered between five and six million…
Pushbullet now lets Android users reply to messages on their computer
Pushbullet is one of those apps that I often wonder how I lived without, since it's so monumentally useful for transferring files and links between devices. Now, though, Android users are going to find that it's even more useful, because they canrespond to messaging apps from their computer. At the moment Pushbullet supports WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger,…
Ethertronics wants to ‘steer’ Wi-Fi to extend range
Heading over to the far end of your house and finding that the Wi-Fi signal is insanely poor is a terrible experience. Many devices, like range extenders or systems like Eero, are available to solve that problem, but it still means you have to buy new equipment. Ethertronics believes it has a solution that can be built…
Apple has a patent for an iPhone virtual reality headset
Virtual reality is massive, and it seems like everyone is getting involved in one way or another -- even Apple. The tech giant has just been awarded a patent for its own virtual reality headset, one that is designed to be powered by the iPhone. Officially named the "Head-Mounted Display Apparatus for Retaining a Portable Electronic…
VLC will be adding Chromecast support soon
Some of you may remember a time before VLC, a time when downloading a video file meant you had to find one that would actually work on one of the many media players you had installed on your computer. VLC changed all that with its universal approach to video playback, and it could be bringing that feature…
HTC confirms a new HTC One will be revealed on 1st March
After much speculation and countless rumours about what's going on, we finally know exactly when we'll be hearing about the next HTC One smartphone. HTC has confirmed that the phone is coming to MWC, and will be officially launched on 1st March. The announcement was made through HTC's UK Twitter account, confirming that the phone is…
The LG G4 announcement may be delayed to ‘make a bigger splash’
At this point in the year it's expected that the big phone announcements are going to take place at the Mobile World Congress at the start of March, but that's not always the case. Apparently LG will be forgoing the conference in favour of announcing the LG G4 at a later event. According to The…
