Everyone knows students need as much help as possible to function. I’m not even talking about work or college; I’m just talking about existing in general. All the stereotypes are true; they don’t eat enough, don’t sleep enough, drink far too much caffeine and alcohol, and even indulge in the odd narcotic or seventeen. Occasionally they just need to wave the white flag and head home to their parents to get square meal and a…
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The iPhone 7 is just around the corner, and that can only mean one thing…that’s right – streaks of snake-like queues coiling around every Apple Store this side of the third world! As well as that of course, it also means that many people are going to do the bi-annual migration of their old phone’s data to their shiny new iPhone 7 (or 7 plus, if you want to get fancy about it). But while…
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With iPhones and iPads, security is of a paramount importance. Smartphones and tablets are intensely personal gadgets with a lot of important information stored up within them. From photos to contacts and email to card details, people store up a lot of personal, sensitive information on their smartphones.Not only this, but the iPhone and iPad are gadgets that need to be protected from theft too. That’s why the market overflows with tons of security apps…
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Mobile messaging is a convenient tool for many people across the world. We use it daily, firing messages back and forth, usually for free. Everyone’s on it, from your best friends to your Mum. But what really happens to all those millions of messages that are sent every day? And not just messages; pictures and videos are prevalent too. There’s a good chance you’ve sent or said some pretty inflammatory stuff (who hasn’t), that taken…
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Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge, I’m trying not to lose my head. It’s like a jungle, sometimes I wonder how I keep from going under. Not my words but the words of ’80s hip-hop god Grand Master Flash in his hit song ‘The Message’. At the song’s inception in 1982, it was the first prominent hip-hop song to provide social commentary: they talked about class injustices, race and governmental hypocrisy. I…
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There’s a lot of things that the internet has improved; communication being the big one, enabling us to connect instantaneously with folks around us. But there are other areas too, niche areas (no, not those kinds of niche areas) for which the net has provided a better, faster system. One of those is gambling. Even before the dawn of the virtual age, gambling was big business; it ranks as one of the oldest and longest…
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I’ve just finished reading a book called ‘I Am Pilgrim’, which tells the story of a covert agent sent to Turkey in a last ditch attempt to stop a catastrophic terrorist attack on the US. Because it’s a spy thriller, there’s constant talk of the ‘secret world’, about how every phone conversation everywhere is monitored by a classified system called ‘Echelon’ and how everyone’s past lives and histories are there for the taking by hackers,…
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