#Politics. UK Government turns to Social media to cut costs
David Cameron may well be joining in on the big discussion (hope he doesn't slip up and tweet #itsokaytocheatif), with a new government strategy for jumping into social media "to facilitate a two-way dialogue with citizens."
The plans come as part of yet another huge cost cutting proposal, to skim a cool £1bn off the budget as the Government implements a their new IT strategy.
'Take this lollipop' and realise what people can find out about you on Facebook
The words 'Facebook' and 'Privacy' cancel each other out, regardless of the myriad of Privacy controls the social network shows to you.
The fundamentals of the service are based around sharing information about you, and no string of content controlling options can stop that data getting out. If anything, they're adding a glaze to this bleak reality by adding the Timeline functionality.
MC Hammer launching his own search engine.
Don't type Hammertime into it, you could break the internet. News emerged at this week's Web 2.0 Summit that the rapper is crafting his own search engine.
Called Wiredoo, Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell) says his search engine "will not attempt to compete with mainstream browsers like Google or Bing" (even though people can't touch him, he isn't ready to take on that kind of a challenge). The differentiator is the service will "add keyword relationship information to search results."
The Gadget Show shoots back at FPS players with simulator
Everybody's looking for more realism nowadays in their video games, and this is done primarily through simulators. Since we've grown tired of racing simulators, The Gadget Show are looking beyond the traditional bunch of branded peripherals and teabaggings of the FPS genre to bring you the simulator you've been waiting for.
ASUS presents the 'Michael Bay' of Tablet ads
Honest to God, we were expecting either it all to blow up or a Transformer of some variety, as it seems that the marketing department at ASUS have just drunk a little too much Bay in a Can.
Google+ to add pseudonimity and app support
Taking the Facebook initative of a developer community, and treading on the toes of Anybeat, SVP of Social Vic Gundotra has announced that Google+ will support pseudonyms and add compatability with the range of other Google apps.
Hyson Green Flats project screening tomorrow
For many of you reading this in sunny Notts, Hyson Green is probably only known for either it's Asda on Radford Road or their crime rates (massively exaggerated in some cases). However, it was a landmark in the past, home to Nottingham's legendary Hyson Green Flats.
Appeals by Facebook rioters rejected. Sentenced to 4 years
Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan had their appeals to the court rejected, as they were sentenced to 4 years at her Majesty's pleasure, for the incitement of rioting via Facebook. Lawyers claimed for this to be "Manifestly excessive," whereas the Lord Judge saw it differently
The brainier you are, the more Facebook friends you have
The bigger it is, the more you have. Puns aside, a study concluded with a correlation between the mass of your brain size and the amount of Facebook friends you have.
In the time people have argued between Facebook and Google+, Researchers at the University College of London donned the white coats and spectacles to investigate whether having a hissy fit over the Internet being bad for humans is really necessary.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus UK pricing
So you've held off on the iPhone 4S to look for the Galaxy Nexus which was announced today? Great! Now see what UK pricing is available for when November 10th rolls around
PS Vita UK pricing and release date announced
So after finding out the impressive specs of the PS Vita, the bad news had to be somewhere. Sony have announced the UK pricing (it's more than a PS3) and a release date (next year).
Samsung Galaxy Nexus revealed
It was leaked by the Hong Kong press and the Samsung website; but Google took to the stage to officially reveal the Samsung Galaxy Nexus: the planet's first smartphone carrying Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich.'
Sean Parker at Web Summit 2.0
Spotify investor and ex-president of Facebook Sean Parker spoke out at the Web Summit 2.0 conference yesterday, raising interesting points about the music industry and social media as a whole.
Digital Expo for Lincoln at Frequency Festival
From digital art to our digital futures. These are to be discussed by some of the top thinkers and doers within the respective fields of media culture at the Lincoln Digital Expo on 28th October.
As part of the Enterprise-Debate-Connect series, Frequency 2011 is set to host a set of fantastic debates and seminars for those of you opinionated about the future of the digital lifestyle...which pretty much means all of you.
Galaxy Nexus specs, benchmarks and images leaked
Ahead of the Google and Samsung keynote presentation in Hong Kong (starts at 3AM for we nocturnal creatures in UK), two images have leaked.
Mayhem returns to Nottingham
Nottingham's creative quarters turn to the strange and scary as the Mayhem Horror Film Festival returns, with a myriad of extreme cinematic horror exultations.
From the BAFTA winning pictures to the best of disturbing Asian cinema, played at Midnight just to add that extra atmosphere, the Broadway cinema has an impressive selection for your perousal from the 27th-31st October. Same as usual: best costumes win prizes, talks with directors and outbursts of laughter and applause and the most implausible of deaths.
DeLorean DMC-12 EV announced for production in 2013.
An electric powered DeLorean production model? Damn straight.
Thanks to the anagramatical homage that is the DeLorean Motor Company of Texas (not to be confused with long defunct DMC), which is known for bringing restored versions of these beautiful machines into the modern age with modified original parts, you can expect to see an DMC-12 EV for a production release of 2013.