Intel introduced wine-powered computing back in September 2013. Although the notion of a PC slumped in a corner with booze on its shirt is attractive, the reality is more prosaic: Intel has created a machine that requires so little power it can run off the chemical energy in a glass of Malbec.To be fair, that energy doesn’t get you much – only a CPU, accelerometer and wireless networking. A Nintendo Wii, basically.
While the idea sounds daft in isolation – who’d waste good wine on a computer? – Intel’s Genevieve Bell explained the potential for "computing solutions so low[-powered] that in the future we’ll be able to power them with the heat of our skins, or the ambient light in the room."Which is ironic, because if a PC powered by booze is anything like a human powered by booze, the ambient light in the room will be greeted with desperate pleas to shut the curtains.

What’s remarkable about Syrian hackers storming the BBC Weather Twitter feed is discovering that there is such a thing in the first place.We can only assume it’s run from a dusty corner of the BBC, manned by a forgotten soul who never looks anybody in the eye. We shall call this man Rupert Goodweather, whose work was interrupted back in March 2013 when Syrian hackers took over the feed and began, well, telling jokes."Earthquake warning for Qatar: Hamad bin Khalifa about to exit vehicle," ran one tweet, referencing a ruling member of the Qatari royal family. While it’s never nice to be mean about people’s weight, it is true that the then-ruling Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa appears to enjoy a pie or nine.Mind you, they didn’t only rain on Goodweather’s parade. The Syrian Electronic Army also claimed responsibility for attacks on President Obama’s personal Twitter feed and The New York Times, which tells you how highly they must rate BBC Weather. Strangely, most of BBC Weather’s Twitter followers found the new coverage to be a breath of fresh air, which begs the question why they were following it in the first place. It’s a mist-ery to us.

Did you hear about John McAfee’s death? He did, which must have been a little disconcerting for the wild man of anti-malware.After building one of the biggest antivirus brands, McAfee decided to relocate from the US to Belize in 2009, enjoying the freedom to live in almost utter isolation with seven women in an armed compound. "Living with one woman is horrific," he explained. "Living with two is nightmarish, but you get past five and suddenly they’re entertaining themselves, really."The more you use your laptop, smartphone or tablet, the more you have to lose if it's stolen. The material cost of the loss may be taken care of by your insurance, but consider the fact that your email is now in the hands of a stranger – as is your internet history, which probably contains details of where you shop and bank. The worst-case scenario is that your phone or computer will automatically log you in to sites such as Facebook, which is a treasure trove of valuable personal information.

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You can protect yourself by using passwords and PIN codes, but this won’t necessarily protect your data, nor will it help recover your property any faster. Fortunately, there’s a good chance that your stolen phone or computer will connect to the internet again – either automatically, or when a careless thief logs on. With the right software, your purloined hardware can be made to quietly phone home with information that can help you track it down. Alternatively, you can prime an anti-theft service to destroy all stored data as soon as the device checks into the internet.Some devices, such as iOS hardware, come with tracking and remote wiping capabilities preinstalled; you need only to activate the service. Others, such as certain Dell Vostro laptops, come with a year’s subscription to tracking and remote deletion services. If you’re using an Android device, or a laptop without preinstalled anti-theft software, however, you’ll need to install something yourself.

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The first thing you’ll likely want to know about a stolen device is where it is now. Devices with GPS can normally report their own location to a high level of accuracy, so long as they’re outdoors or near a window. However, even non-GPS equipped devices, such as laptops and Wi-Fi-only tablets, can often get a spookily accurate location fix by using Google’s location API. This works by mining the data gathered by Google’s Street View cars, which includes the geographical locations of wireless basestations. By querying which basestations your device can see, and cross-referencing this with Google’s data, you can arrive at a surprisingly accurate estimate – to within a few yards, in some cases – of the location of a device.

Wi-Fi-based geolocation can provide a surprisingly accurate estimate of your laptop's whereabouts
This approach works best when there are plenty of wireless networks around to survey. If there aren’t, another option is to try to guess your device’s location based on its IP address. This is a much less accurate method – an address might be located anywhere in an area up to several miles across – but it’s a starting point.There are plenty of tracking options out there, including some very high-end, expensive software aimed at IT managers with many devices to take care of. For consumers, there are a few high-quality packages that are easy to set up.For those happy to spend cash, you can opt for a service such as Absolute Software’s LoJack for Laptops, which will set you back less than £30 inc VAT for a year of coverage. In return, you get the ability to lock your laptop remotely and display an immovable message on the screen – perhaps your phone number, or details of a reward for the safe return of your machine.

Alternatively, you can declare your laptop stolen, which provokes a more dramatic response. In this circumstance, LoJack begins silently capturing screen grabs and logging keystrokes, and sends them back to the Absolute Monitoring Centre, along with geolocation data. This allows the company to build up a detailed dossier of evidence about the laptop’s location and the person in control of it, which is then passed to the police.Citing "sources familiar with the situation", Re/code didn't deny the possibility of the laptop appearing at a later date; however, it seems this may not be until next year.According to Apple Insider, the hold up could be as a result of problems in the supply of Intel's Broadwell chip.

While the lack of the MacBook Air with Retina Display in time for Christmas may disappoint Apple fans, there's still plenty to look forward to.The company's latest operating system, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, is expected to be formally released, and will be available as a free upgrade.On the hardware side of things, a new iPad mini and iPad Air are expected, although what they'll be called is up for debate - the second-generation iPad mini wasn't officially labelled the iPad mini 2, so it's doubtful the new one will be called the iPad mini 3.A new iMac is also expected to be launched. Rumours indicate it will have a new, slimline profile and, potentially, a 5K 5,120 x 2,880 resolution Retina Display, as well as hardware improvements such as a better Wi-Fi antennae.

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HP has unveiled a pair of hybrid laptops, the HP SlateBook x2 running Android and the HP Split x2 running Windows 8.The hybrids are laptops with detachable keyboards, leaving the display to be used as a tablet.Both will be launched in the US in August, priced at $480 (around £316) for the Android SlateBook x2 and $800 (around £526) for the Windows 8 Split x2, which includes the price of the keyboard. UK availability has yet to be announced.The HP SlateBook x2 runs Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) via an quad-core 1.8GHz Nvidia Tegra 4 chip and 2GB RAM, and features a 1,920 x 1,200, 10.1in, IPS display and up to 64GB of storage. It has dual cameras, an SD card slot, one USB 2 port and supports HDMI. It weighs 1.4kg and is 0.8in thick, both including the keyboard.With both devices, the keyboard attaches to the tablet via a magnetic hinge, with a battery in both parts of the device. The SlateBook x2 comes preloaded with the Kingsoft Office suite.

The HP Split x2, meanwhile, follows HP's Envy x2 as a hybrid Windows 8 device. The Split x2 is a 13.3in device, with a 1,366 x 768 IPS display, running an Ivy Bridge i3 or i5 processor, 2GB RAM and features dual batteries and dual cameras, including an 8-megapixel one on the back of the device.Alongside the up to 128GB solid-state drive storage, it features an optional 500GB hard disk in the keyboard base to expand storage capacity.It weighs 1.9kg for the whole device, and 1kg in tablet mode. It's 0.92in thick. It features a USB 2 and USB 3 device, plus a MicroSD and standard SD card slot, and HDMI.Microsoft and the Open Space Agency (OSA) have developed a 3D printed mini-observatory named Ultrascope, which will let users take photos of outer space using just their smartphone – assuming they have a Lumia 1020, of course.http://www.batteries-pc.com/fujitsu.html

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