Published: 29 October 2025, 18:30 BST Author: AVE Services Microsoft Azure is experiencing a major outage this evening, with widespread disruption reported across the UK and beyond. Knock-on effects include problems accessing Microsoft 365 services (Teams, Outlook, SharePoint), Xbox, and Minecraft, according to multiple live reports and trackers. This incident lands just nine days after […]
Category Archives: Techs Corner
Assorted tech related blog
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Oct
Oct
Outdoor motorsport meets quiet, reliable tech. Here’s how we kept an RC car race day running completely off‑grid—charging lithium batteries and handling race control announcements—all without a generator. The Brief An RC car club needed two things for a day‑long outdoor event: Off‑grid event power to charge teams’ lithium battery packs throughout the day. Clear, […]
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May
May
6 Top Reasons to Use Solo Live Streaming Solution Start streaming within seconds: just plug in your camera and go live at the push of a button Keep more viewers engaged with a reliable, high-quality stream Send a high-quality stream from remote locations or in congested network environments such as heavy crowds Get out of the studio […]
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Feb
Feb
Ten years after Samsung released the Galaxy phone, it is launching its latest product, the Galaxy Fold. The fold which will be launch in the US on the 26th April for an eye watering $1,980 (Roughly £1515) and released into Europe a week later is a phone that can open up with a tablet sized […]
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Apr
Apr
Virgins VSS Unity had a successful first supersonic, rocket powered flight on the 5th April 2018. Virgins team has been testing atmospheric and extensive ground research for the last two years to make this day possible for the flight test. Take a look at their success: Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and with its sister […]
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Feb
Feb
If you have been living under a rock, you may have missed the Falcon Heavy launch by Elon Musk with a Tesla car attached to it. Here are some facts from the Falcon Heavy website: Falcon Heavy is the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two Has the ability to […]
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Jan
Jan
We posted about the new Amazon Go store opening in Seattle, so we thought we would show you one of our favourite YouTubers testing the store. Linus travelled over 2 hours to go and visit so have a look at what he had to say: Video credit : Linus Tech Tips
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Jan
Jan
Amazon Go Store Opens In Seattle on Monday 22nd January the first Amazon Go store opened its doors to customers for the first time. Staff have been testing and buying from the store for over a year to get it ready to launch to customers but they had some teething problems which meant delays. The […]
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Jan
Jan
The Misty I will be shipping out in February to a select developers for $1499 (£1109), the ‘affordable’ robot that you can program yourself, own personal advance robot from Misty Robotics. They then plan to release the Misty II a year later, which will target a wider audience. At the heart of Misty is the Occipital Structured […]
Hotels are getting smarter and this one in central London is trialing serval different new pieces of technology to improves its customers stay. Reporter Kit Bradshaw checks in and is greeted to a concierge chatbot where the staff can use earbuds to translate your requests into 27 languages. Take a look at the video below. […]
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Dec
Dec
Take a look at this amazing Christmas lights display in America from last year. I can’t wait to see what they do this year!
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Oct
Oct
The British supersonic car built to attempt a new 1,000mph land speed record successfully had its first public trial on the 25th October. The car was on trial and only doing a 5th of its capability of 200mph at Newquay airport in Cornwall. The Bloodhound has been nine years in development, combining technology from motorsport, […]
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Oct
Oct
The auto industry is going through a revolution that shortly will swamp our planet. Even though our estimates say that the breaking point will happen in 2023, when EVs will pass the moment of no return and start their dominance, but the 2018 that is just around the corner and the upcoming 2019 have already […]
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May
May
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/vSZfjtelFu0″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Early in 2016, Richard Browning had a vision. He wanted to build a viable anti-gravity jet-engine suit and inspire solo human flight. Throughout 2016 he designed, built, redesigned and rebuilt his prototype flight suit – Daedalus – testing, developing and reiterating for a year before getting to the working model you see today. His […]
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May
May
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Swarm man carrying multi-rotor airborne flight testing montage. It has 54 counter-rotation propellers, six grouped control channels with KK2.15 stabilization. The take off weight is 148kg, with a maximum lift of approximately 164kg. Endurance10 minutes. Power approximately 22KW.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/t5JgnMJzCtQ”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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May
May
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This interesting documentary on the Tesla warehouse, where they make and test the vehicles is an good watch. And for anyone who watches ‘how it’s made’ it’s the guy’s voice over from that.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/Rt0GkhVPjac”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Apr
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]For James Veitch, a British writer and comedian with a mischievous side, spam emails proved the perfect opening to have some fun, playing the scammers at their own game. Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure […]
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Apr
Apr
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everyone has heard of the Amazon Echo by now and if you haven’t then you need to take a look. So of course one of the other mega giants have taken a shot at producing another piece of technology that can help us in our homes. On the 6th April in the UK, Google will […]
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Mar
Mar
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cafe X was started by three college friends with a passion for robotics and an eye for efficiency. The robot barista uses beans from local coffee shops to create a variety of espresso drinks. TechCrunch visited the mechanized coffee shop at San Francisco’s AMC Matron. It’s predicted that in the future many typical jobs carried […]