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Web Porn Is Killing My Libido

Zounds! So this is what my ex-girlfriend meant when she said sex with me was akin to "carnal relations with an empty husk." Too much web porn! It's killing our libidos, lads, one frantically one-handed...

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97 Per Cent of Three’s Network Traffic is Data

UK mobile network Three has really been hit by the smartphone boom, revealing that a staggering 97 per cent of all the traffic through its mobile network is now internet data alone.

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Internet Explorer Desertion Continues as Usage Drops Below 50 Per Cent

Internet Explorer has long been declining in popularity, but it hit an abandonment milestone in October as its market share dropped below 50 per cent for the first time in more than a decade. What...

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Is Iran Going To Dump the Web and Launch Its Own National Internet?

Iran isn't a nation known for its liberal outlook on life. So maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise that the country may soon pull out of the internet and launch its own national network instead.

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Guy Creates Realistic Photoshop Simulator For the Web

Wow, I am blown away by this! A programmer over at Visual Idiot has created a perfect simulation of Photoshop that runs in your web browser. It's only been tested under Chrome, but it should work in...

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You’ll Never Believe This Was Made With Just WebKit

Wanna know who's got the most impressive web visuals we've seen in a while? It's a little site called Acko.net, written by Steven Wittens. Just head over there and slowly scroll down. You're looking...

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These People Will Make Any Movie You Tell Them To

I'm very impressed by Finite Films. They're a band of filmmakers who produce one Hollywood-level quality short film every month—and each of their short films works within the constraints that people...

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Warning: The Olympics Might Break Your Internet

The government and the London 2012 organisers have put together a guide designed to help businesses get ready for the Olympics, warning we may see slower web connections and the odd complete failure...

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The Internet Icon You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

This is Marc Andreessen. He’s not as rich as Bill Gates, not as inspirational as Steve Jobs, nor as well-known as Mark Zuckerberg — but that doesn’t make him any less important. Because, in his...

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Where You Will Waste The Rest of Your Day Staring At Enormous Gifs

Everyone loves animated gifs. They are the short attention span movies of the Internet. But they’re not big enough, or random enough, you dig? Which is why William Wilkinson created Maxgif, a big...

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Wi-Fi-Blocking Wallpaper Protects Your Web Fortress by Keeping Neighbours Out

Scientists from the institut polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier have developed a novel new product so gratuitous, it almost seems necessary: a silver-crystal coated wallpaper...

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How to Destroy the Internet

Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—could someone actually destroy the Internet? We...

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Bing’s Animated Homepage Is What the Face of the Internet Should Look Like

Bing’s homepage is wonderful today. Right now, it livens up your basic search page with an animated timelapse of concentric startrails at Mountain Valley in Utah (for us Brits to see it you’ll need to...

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Java Hack Will Bring About the End of the World

A rather huge exploit has been used to attack users of Java, which has been found to operate within browsers on PCs, OS X and even the more robust Ubuntu. Everything that runs Java is now vulnerable....

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Java Hack Gains Momentum as Firefox Advises All Users to Switch it Off

The recently discovered potentially apocalyptic Java exploit has been spreading, with the hack now part of a commonplace malware bundle that’s doing the rounds on the hacking scene. According to...

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Java Patched, New Java Security Holes Discovered

Just days after Oracle took the unusual step of releasing an unscheduled patch to fix the huge security flaw found in the most recent update of its Java platform, more ways to exploit the code have...

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Xbox 360 Isn’t an Unstoppable Porn Hub, Says Microsoft

One big provider of internet porn took the imminent arrival of Internet Explorer on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 to issue a press release, claiming the console was about to become every child’s favourite way...

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Microsoft Puts Tesco to Shame in Sheer Number of Stalker Points

You’d have thought that the supermarkets, what with their club card and electronic tracking of your every move, might be the biggest stalkers, but no. Apparently Microsoft’s the worst offender of them...

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This Cool Internet Toy Will Consume Most of Your Evening

This is Silk, an soothing web-based graphical toy that allows you to draw using swirly patterns in a two- and four-way symmetrical configurations, as well as totally freeform. Go play with it. It’s...

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You’ll Pick Up More than You Bargained for Guzzling Porn on Your Mobile

An online security firm has sounded the alarm about mobile internet porn, claiming you’re three times as likely to pick up a mobile malware STD on your phone when browsing adult sites as you are when...

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