Tech and Auto

It's been said a thousand times or more over the last two decades, but every year the phrase "we live in an age of information" becomes more relevant. Now, unlike any other time in history, more people have access to more information, and that's changing almost every aspect of our lives. From the ways we socialise to the way businesses perform, technology's ability to give us new insights and a better understanding of things has changed the world around. Indeed,...

Running a WordPress blog seems so simple. You can just write articles, add images and create a lot of content. In theory, this is all you really need since we all love high quality content. The problem is that because of the huge competition in the industry at the moment we are faced with many problems in ranking the sites that you run. You need to do all that you can to increase the possibility to rank higher in search...

Faith Warner, 38, decided to flog the machine - which has been gathering dust in her garage for years - after she did some research on it. She discovered the huge computer originally sold for anything between £100,000 to £150,000 - but she has listed it on the online auction site with a modest starting price of £5,000. Faith said: "My dad, Paul Warner, used to run an engineering firm in Hatherleigh but in his spare time he wrote for...

Social media is hot right now – period. Each social media platform are falling over themselves to grab a share of the market, because finally we’re seeing better business tools and data analytics that can actually give some indication of how well business efforts are performing. What’s happening is social media and mobile Take Instagram for example. According to the Social Media Examiner, 48 per cent of brands are on the platform, with the figure estimated to rise to 70...

Last week I got my greasy mits on Nioh, the new 'dark samurai fantasy' from Team Ninja (the minds behind the  Ninja Gaiden series) and it’s safe to say the game has sunk into my conscious like so many poison shuriken. Twenty hours in, I'm traversing Japanese lands of legend, slaying Yokai (demons, scary demons) and yes, getting my face ground into paste over and over. 'Freed from this mortal coil' indeed. Nioh reviewed well, too, unexpectedly well for a title that could be...

It’s one of the sensations that every motorist dreads, a sudden clunk as one of your car’s wheels disappears down a pothole in the road, along with the nasty suspicion that it may have done some serious, not to mention expensive, damage. It’s a problem that’s even worse in the winter. That’s because it’s not simply harder to spot one of these perils when conditions are dark or foggy, it’s also when more and more potholes start to open up...

Thousands of jobs are at risk in Luton and Ellesmere Port after PSA Group, the owner of the Peugeot brand, has announced it is in talks to buy General Motor's European arm. General Motors employs around 35,000 people in the UK under the Vauxhall banner, including 4,500 staff at car plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton and 23,000 in its retail network. Significant job cuts could be in line after PSA, which has worked with GM in Europe since 2012, said it was...

Videogames in this day and age are something we take for granted – where else can you be placed in massive 3D worlds, spend a human lifetime exploring landscapes, meet cool new creatures, and achieve more than you ever will in the real world? And now we even have virtual reality systems making their way into our lives. Feel guilty children of the noughties, for you know not what you have. We recall the early days, as wee ‘90s kids,...

The first commercial flying car in the world has officially gone on sale this week after car manufacturer PAL-V unveiled the Liberty Pioneer and Liberty Sport. Following the successful test programs of their concept vehicles in 2009 and 2012, PAL-V started the design of the commercial products that have been launched today. PAL-V is now nearing an exciting phase for its continued business growth, namely fulfilling the first client orders. While other flying car manufacturers' concepts require modified regulations and in...