Author: Brad Lang

The days of doctors angrily shouting, “Pass me the scalpel, Andrews!” are seemingly in the past as robots have taken the next step forward in helping humans conduct some of the most challenging surgeries. Okay, it’s probably a bit more in-depth than handing over scalpels but they could probably also do that. Researchers at the Maastricht University Medical Centre in The Netherlands have been studying the effectiveness of robot assisted surgery and the results that have come out of the latest clinical study seems to indicate that our metal creations are more helpful than not. The biggest advantage of using…

Following the cancellation of MWC 2020, many are currently wondering how much money has been lost in deciding to call it quits. It’s not just GSMA that stands to lose a whole load of money but the MWC is also a huge source of revenue for the city of Barcelona. While the whole world mourns the cancellation of Mobile World Congress, our sadness at not seeing the next generation of smartphones isn’t comparable to the sadness GSMA is feeling at having to pay for a cancelled event the scale of MWC. Or will GSMA be the ones paying for everything?…

The mysterious device that many considered to be a myth has recently been put up for auction and collectors are already thousands of dollars in an attempt to get their grubby paws on this iconic piece of technology. Allow me to sit you down and give you a lesson on video game history. Back when CD ROMS were starting to be whispered about as the next big step in media technology, Nintendo wanted to get in on that particular venture. Having only used cartridges to in the Nintendo Entertainment System and the more powerful Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo was…

Ever played a competitive game of Starcraft? You’ve got to think incredibly fast to really excel at it. Dozens of things are screen, multiple targets, prioritising the correct routes to take to best outmaneuver. There’s a lot of strategy involved and clearly the US military is started paying attention. Researchers at the University of Buffalo will soon be conducted detailed analyses of professional gamers’ decisions, eye movements and brainwaves as they play strategy games. This data will then be coded into an AI that will control autonomous air and ground robots. To obtain this data, the subjects will sat down…

One of the biggest (and most evoked) selling points of an Apple Mac has always been their ability to avoid unwanted programs and viruses. Yet as their popularity and accessibility has increased, so to has the community that develops adware for the platform. Beyond the aesthetic design, ease of use and general benefits for creatives working in any kind of design fields, Apple has always prided themselves on selling machines that have remained clean and sparkly from the disgusting dirges of malware. It used to be that finding a Mac with a virus was a real challenge yet it appears…

In a move that makes a lot of sense considering most of the big attendees have already withdrawn their show plans, Mobile World Congress 2020 has been cancelled according to an emailed statement provided by GSMA, the organisation running MWC Barcelona 2020. Given the growing concern for the widely spreading coronavirus, it seems that GSMA has come around to the same decision as Amazon, Nvidia, Nokia and a host of other companies that had previously announced the cancellation of their MWC plans: That the annual consumer tech conference will no longer take place this year. In an emailed statement, John…

As appears to have become a trend due to fears of the spreading coronavirus, Nokia has issued a statement in which they have specified that they will no longer be attending Mobile World Congress 2020. This comes just days after Amazon pulled out of MWC and a week after LG and Nvidia cancelled their plans. It’s a terrible time to be hosting a worldwide convention, apparently. Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus many people have become wary of travelling overseas for any reason whatsoever, including major technology companies. With Mobile World Congress just a few weeks away, I can…

Following the announcement that Nvidia would be challenging Google’s attempt at breaking into cloud gaming, Geforce Now is set to be the Stadia killer. Yet just a week after the service/platform’s announcement, Activision Blizzard is clearly not happy to have their game’s available on the cloud. Whether we like it or not, cloud gaming is the future of video gaming. The ability to not fork out thousands on a machine but rather pay a much lower monthly price to access an entire library of games, given you have the bandwidth to stream them effectively, is immensely appealing. It’s currently a…

Anyone who’s tried their hand at streaming on any platform, even if it’s only been for a few minutes, will attest to the fact that finding the right camera for the job can be a real mission. Finding something that offers both a quality image as well as not being a total headache to mount and operate can be a challenge. A challenge that Logitech is accepting. Launched today, the StreamCam is Logitech reached out to the streaming community once again and offering a gift of convenience and quality. Mountable either horizontally or vertically, the StreamCam boasts an impressive range…

Samsung has noticed that you’ve become a little pudgy around the middle. “No judgement, dude”, they say. “Happens to the best of us”. To help you out with that, Samsung has gone ahead and announced their latest in a range of peripherals to help you exercise. A very clever watch and some super effective earbuds.