Testimonial Reviews and Videos: August 2016

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Hands-on with Montblanc's £530 Augmented Paper that turns handwriting into digital text

By: Jeremy White

Nubia's bezel-less Z11 phone is heading to the UK and US

By: Matt Burgess

Day one at IFA 2016: Stylish speakers, silent mice and Bluetooth trackers

By: Matthew Reynolds

Lenovo's £449 Yoga Book has a virtual keyboard you can draw on and learns your typing style

When is a keyboard not a keyboard? When it's also a notepad and a graphics tablet

By: James Temperton

Holy cats! The Moto Z Play has a 50-hour battery life

Motorola's latest handset, announced at IFA 2016, is making a big battery claim

By: James Temperton

The innovators in experience design shaping how we interact with the world

These are the moonshots set to radically impact human progress

Hasselblad's £199 True Zoom turns Motorola phones into high-end cameras

By: Jeremy White

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

In pictures: Montblanc's Augmented Paper

Ancient skeletons unravel the secrets of how the Justinian plague ravaged its victims

By: Matthew Reynolds

Monday, August 29, 2016

Apple's iPhone 7 to launch at September 7 event

By: Victoria Woollaston

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Are biofuels really worse than petrol when it comes to climate change?

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Meet Dragonfly 44, the galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter

The galaxy is roughly the same mass as the Milky Way, but our galaxy has a hundred times more stars

By: Sarah Griffiths

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

'Second Earth' exoplanet found just outside our Solar System could harbour alien life

Proxima b has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface

By: Sarah Griffiths

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Zika 'clone' could finally lead to a vaccine for the devastating virus

Researchers have cloned an epidemic strain of the virus, which could lead to a cure for Zika

By: Sarah Griffiths

Why do we sleep? Scientists uncover how late nights can physically change the brain

By: Amelia Heathman

Kobe Bryant and the wild rise of sports venture capitalists

Kobe Bryant isn't the first: super-rich, business-minded sports stars have been investing in startups for years

By: James Temperton

Blizzard will fix Overwatch's console aim glitch

By: Matt Kamen

Hacking the hackers: everything you need to know about Shadow Brokers' attack on the NSA

By: Matt Burgess

People will lie to robots to avoid 'hurting their feelings'

By: Sarah Griffiths

Scientists are strapping sensors to the heads of seals to track Antarctic ice

By: Matt Burgess

Crash is back. Here's how Skylanders revived a gaming icon

By: Matt Kamen

Monday, August 22, 2016

Another billionaire goes all in on the “barbarous relic” gold

Billionaire Crispin Odey recently released a management letter to his hedge fund clients praising gold and explaining gold products constituted the next, great investment wave.

Ice Flow climate change game puts the fate of Antarctic penguins in your hands

Ice Flow models how the Antarctic ice sheet responds to changes in the environment

By: Matthew Reynolds

Humans and chimps are even more similar than first thought

Study suggests the roots of human cooperation are shared with other primates

By: Sarah Griffiths

Friday, August 19, 2016

From Bieber to K-Pop, how fanfic predicts popularity

Wattpad's army of enthusiasts don't just write - they know what teens actually like

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Facebook partners with Unity to build a PC gaming platform

Game development suite Unity has announced plans to integrate Facebook

By: Matt Kamen

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

White dwarf start caught exploding out of hibernation

A star was monitored over a 12-year period to gain insight into classic nova explosions

By: Amelia Heathman

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Gallery: the all new Final Fantasy XV

Monday, August 15, 2016

The brain has a 'generosity centre,' scientists say

The 'generous' brain area is more active in more empathetic people

By: Sarah Griffths

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Behind the scenes as Sky gears up to show the new football season in 4K

By: Matt Burgess

Innovating the beautiful game: how Man City is taking football from the terraces to the web

By: Victoria Woollaston

Friday, August 12, 2016

Nasa's Juno spacecraft snaps another 1,744 images of Jupiter

And you can view them all

By: Lee Bell

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Stretchy 'pad' turns your arm into the ultimate flexible touchscreen

By: Ben Woods

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Apple releases its latest iOS 10 betas and boosts iOS 9 security

By: Matt Burgess

Nasa's 'groundbreaking' camera captures incredible footage of a rocket test like never before

By: Matt Burgess

Uber warns new TfL rules will mean longer waiting times

A requirement for some drivers to pass a written English language exam will mean fewer drivers and longer waiting times, according to Uber

By: James Temperton

Journey into the depths of London's Crossrail tunnels in this exclusive video

By: Amelia Heathman

Volcanic eruptions can 'mask the true effects of climate change'

By: Victoria Woollaston

Solving the mystery of miscarriage: Scientists identify a possible genetic cause

The discovery will be used to better understand the processes of human reproduction

By: Amelia Heathman

Google denies deleting Palestine from Maps following online uproar

By: Libby Plummer

No Man's Sky players discover 10 million species in one day

By: Matt Kamen

Bizarre patent suggests Apple may be working on an articulated tank

By: Libby Plummer

Crows can make tools – and the discovery could rewrite what we know about animal intelligence

By: Libby Plummer

Meet the speakers at this year's first WIRED Security event

By: WIRED

Netflix to screen Amanda Knox documentary at Toronto Film Festival

By: Amelia Heathman

Does No Man's Sky live up to the hype?

By: Matt Kamen

Why the death of Moore's Law could give birth to more human-like machines

By: Aaron Frank

WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for August 10

SpaceX begins testing its Mars rocket engines, study links Zika with infant joint deformation

By: WIRED

Flash is (almost) dead, long live HTML 5: Chrome is finally ditching Adobe's software

By: Libby Plummer

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Carved under the capital: incredible underground photos of Crossrail