Quick reality check: when you use eBay, you’re trading with a complete stranger. Whether selling or buying, it’s absolutely essential to get some measure of how reliable the other eBay member is. In short, will the goods/money arrive? This is why trading history is part...
Like many big businesses, eBay has a conscience. Rather than just generating loads of profit for itself, it also helps charities raise money too. Since eBay for Charity was launched in 2006, it’s raised over £65 million for more than 7,500 different charities. There are...
eBay is a brilliant tool, and like most tools, it can be used in a variety of different ways, depending on what you need it for. You might never use all of eBay’s features and functions; you might start off using it in one way...
Many of us wondering, Is it possible to control a robot with our mind? The answer is, Yes. The USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a brain-controlled prosthetic arm for upper limb amputees. As the user thinks about various movements, the arm picks...
It may look like a bunch of colourful pom-poms to the untrained eye, but this 3D computer model of a tumour may help researchers to develop more effective treatments for cancer. The model was developed by an international team of scientists working at Harvard, Edinburgh and...
Technology has certainly made doing things way easier than it was ever before. As a result, not only tasks but also the rate of technological crime has increased relatively. The easier it is to communicate nowadays, the simpler it is to fool someone around. An...
Traditionally, shooting star trails with film-based cameras relied on shutter speeds of minutes or even hours to capture the movement of the stars across the night sky. But these exposure times will produce too much noise on digital cameras, so it’s better to shoot a...
The usual LEGO game remit of destruction, reconstruction and pugilism fits the MMO template very well, it turns out – when you’ve got a property with as much variation as the LEGO franchise, you’ve got all the makings of a great MMO already programmed into...
The advent of autumn tends to signal the end of the year’s insect and flower photography, and nature photographers could be excused for thinking that their image-making opportunities were starting to dwindle. Cast an eye on an autumnal woodland floor, however, and the chances are...
Finally, we all have the chance to play a game where our timber trader gets robbed and murdered, we don’t have the resources to research three-field crop rotation and then a volcano erupts next to our most prosperous town. Games! Grand Ages: Medieval is a...
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