Nerd Insider

With it being the 15th anniversary of Gary Kasparov getting beaten by an IBM computer aka ‘Deep Blue’, I thought I would look back to the legendary event in gaming history along with two others in an ode to gaming just for Nerd Insider… 3 gaming legend stories that you have to know about… 1.   [...]

If you’ve read any of my posts before you’ll be aware that I have a healthy distrust of machines that are too smart for their own good (or should that be our good?) So as you can imagine the old spider-sense immediately started tingling as soon as I heard that Google were developing a self-driving [...]

Everything seems to be moving towards tablets these days. Desktops are rarely favoured in the home while laptops will eventually get to a stage where they are second favourite too. Tablets have exploded in popularity due to their portability which makes them the perfect travel companion, great entertainment systems for videos, games and music and [...]

The Raspberry Pi was launched earlier this year to a not inconsiderable amount of hype. The delicious sounding device was designed to be a low cost, bare-bones computer that could revitalise computer science education by returning students to the golden age of tinkering and wrestling with clever workarounds for memory limitations. Powered by a Cambridge [...]

There is no doubt that smart phones are everywhere. Chances are that you own a smart phone or at the very least you’ve had a go of one. With the constant developments taking place in this market it is interesting to think about what might be coming next. And from a little bit of research [...]

I really don’t know why I didn’t know this – and I don’t mean the answer, I mean the question. I had absolutely no idea consoles were banned in China. Did you? It’s ironic that young people in Chinese factories are churning out millions of Wiis, PS3s and Xboxes for their western counterparts, yet the [...]

I’ve just been reading about a new business venture that’s been announced: a start-up company called Planetary Resources intends to shoot robots into space so they can mine asteroids. Oh and by the way, James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator, Avatar) is one of the major players in the project. !!!DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!!! This is such [...]

It is really exciting to hear that older generations, fondly known as ‘silver surfers’, are taking a more active interest in online platforms. From online dating to streaming their favorite TV programs online, you would be surprised how much your Grandma and or Grandpa are cooler than you… Spring Online and Silver Surfers Day Spring [...]

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple has rejected the idea of making a iPad/Macbook Air hybrid product as it would “wind up compromising” both. This view is contrary to that of rivals Asus who are already marketing their Transformer series and Intel have also expressed interest in the idea. Mr Cook said in an interview with [...]

Now that everyone is fighting against each other to see who takes the most desaturated photos using Instagram, it’s time to turn your iPhone into a retro gadget and be the coolest kid in the hood. The 80s mobile phone case is my favourite. I don’t have an iPhone but if I end up buying [...]