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This teaser shot means the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active is almost here

Only a few days ago, Samsung leaked pretty much everything we wanted to know about the Galaxy S6 Active, so all we’re waiting to hear now is when we can actually get our hands on it. Thanks to a teaser tweet from AT&T, the US carrier expected to sell the new handset, it looks like that day is now very close. “Only one thing is missing from your workout,” reads

Innovators: Great tech innovators: Susan Wojcicki

Age: 46 Known for: Google, YouTube Quote: “Google is fascinating, and the book isn’t finished. I’m creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.” It seems that every great technology story starts off in a garage. For Google, that garage belonged to Susan Wojcicki. It was 1998 when Larry Page and Sergei Brin set up office in Wojcicki’s garage. At the time she was working as a marketing manager for Intel

40 Father's Day gift ideas for your hard-to-please dad

Introduction Our Father’s Day gift ideas are designed to give the tech-loving father in your life something to enjoy on his special day. You should also make sure he gets a nice lie-in and some coffee too. The big day, in case you didn’t realise, is on 21st June this year. Our gift ideas are intended to celebrate the man who has perfected the art of being both moody and

Week in Gaming: Why I don't think The Witcher 3 is sexist

Please stand by. Your weekly gaming column will appear in 3, 2, 1… HELLO! This is much less exciting than that Fallout 4 reveal, isn’t it? Despite being around for quite some time, I don’t really trigger the same kind of nostalgia or excitement in people as a well-loved game franchise – unless I have a box of donuts in my hands. I don’t. Sorry. This week, some people on

Data obtained in U.S. government hack dates back to 1985: U.S. official

Data stolen in the recent hack of U.S. government computers includes security clearance information and background checks dating to 1985, a U.S. official said, underlining the far-reaching scale of one of the largest known thefts of federal government data. This means that they potentially have information about retirees, and they could know what they did after leaving government,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Access to information from

Mac Tips: How to show or hide file extensions in Mac OS X

Got an Apple, Mac or iOS tech question? We have the answer. This time, we answer a reader’s question about file extensions in OS X. Some people like ’em, some people don’t – once upon a time, Mac files didn’t have extensions at all! So how do you determine whether they’re shown or not? Here’s the simple solution. Question I recently switched to a new Mac, and I’ve noticed something

Review: Drift Stealth 2

Introduction and design Action cameras generally follow one of two designs, box or bullet, but the small Stealth 2 is a mixture of the two. It looks very similar to the larger Drift Ghost-S with the same long rectangular shape, twist lock back, screen on top and rotating front lens element. This design made the Ghost-S exceptionally easy to mount, but the size and weight of the Ghost-S can be

A computer just solved a 120-year-old mystery – without the help of humans

A 120-year old mystery involving the regeneration of flatworm cells has been solved by a computer that was programmed to develop scientific theories – without help from humans. The machine, which was built by biologists at Tufts University, was able to explain the mechanism of how the genes of sliced-up flatworms are able to turn the sliced-up cells into new organisms – a process called planaria. To do so, it

TechRadar Deals: Best Samsung Galaxy Tab deals in June 2015

Welcome to the web’s repository of all the best Samsung Galaxy Tab deals. On this page you’ll find the best deals currently available for all models of Samsung Galaxy Tab, whether it’s the latest and greatest Galaxy Tab S you’re after or the Galaxy Tab 3 designed especially for kids! We’ll walk you through each model type so you can work out which one is best for you and then

This robot ninja is even more accurate and deadly than you'd expect

Teaching a robot how to use a sword seems like a terrible idea, given the inevitable robot uprising. And yet in this Japanese commercial, master swordsman Isao Machii does just that. The robot goes through several tests, from a simple diagonal cut to some basic fruit slicing familiar to anyone who’s played fruit ninja, all the way through to the “thousand cuts”. In every case it closely replicates the movements

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