Tonight marks a historical moment for the United Kingdom - the first ever televised election debate between the leaders of the 3 main political parties. This first debate will be televised on ITV1 and 2 more debates for this year's election will be televised by Sky and BBC. To make the debate 'approachable' to all, questions and comments will be allowed via Twitter & live chat. For more on this check out this article...

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If you use online forms it's likely you've used a 'captcha' (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) system that prevents a computer script from using the form to send out spam.

Google has acquired reCaptcha, the captcha system that not only prevents spam but at the same time uses the text you type as the digital substitute for that word - basically the words you see as an image have been scanned from books that are being converted to a digital format however some words cannot be recognised effectively by OCR (optical character recognition) and so the words you type are substituted in. Make sense? No? Ok, maybe the short video below explains it better...

Sony, the electronics giant, kicks off a TV scrappage scheme on August 21st. Following the popular car scrappage scheme set up by the government earlier this year, customers who buy a new TV from Sony can get up to £150 off when trading in their old one.

However, details, like how old your TV must be to qualify, are unknown and there are other issues buyers need to be aware of as mentioned in this article on the IT Pro Portal web site...

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There has been some speculation lately that Apple is due to launch 2 Apple tablets this year - could these be them? View the videos below...

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