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3D Printed Gun Downloaded Over 100,000 Times...

Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 09.05.2013 | UK Tech

Blueprints for the world's first 3D printed gun have been downloaded more than 100,000 times in just two days. Even more worryingly, the CAD files ...

Explosion in Mobile Gaming Drives Demand for New Accessories

Paul Williamson | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Tech
Paul Williamson

Over the past 12 months gamers have increasingly been using tablets and other mobile devices to play games. Consumers want to game anywhere and at any time, rather than being tied to consoles at home, meaning mobiles have now become gaming platforms in their own right.

Matthew Tucker

REVIEW: Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10-Inch Tablet

HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Tucker | Posted 25.04.2013 | UK Tech

As graphic tablets are shrinking down to a handy-sized 7" (iPad Mini, Nexus), so too are the prices of some 'grown-up' full-sized 10" tablets. At £24...

Reusable Hovering Space Rocket Completes Breakthrough Test

Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Tech

Space exploration is an expensive business - the average Space Shuttle launch cost a whopping £295 million. Private space company SpaceX is lookin...

Virgin Galactic Craft One Giant Step Closer To Space Flight

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Tech

Richard Branson's dream of ferrying paying tourists into space came a step closer last week with the successful completion of a "cold flow" test of it...

Is This The Next iPad?

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK Tech

This rather sinister gloved hand is holding what some claim to be the screen of the hugely anticipated iPad 5. Its slimmer bezel and lusciously bev...

Anonymous Promises Fresh Attacks On North Korea

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK Tech

Anonymous hackers have announced another round of cyber attacks on North Korea, as tensions in the peninsula continue to escalate. Last week the ce...

Giant Asteroid Skims Earth At 'Eight Times The Speed Of A Bullet'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Tech

An 150-metre wide asteroid has passed by Earth just 27,700km (17,200 miles) closer than many communication satellites, and just one tenth the distance...

Asteroid 'Capable Of Flattening London' To Skim Earth

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK Tech

An asteroid capable of destroying London will skim past the Earth on Friday, approaching closer than many satellites. Scientists say they are sure ...

Meeting the Global Challenge of SMS Spammers

Ciaran Bradley | Posted 16.03.2013 | UK Tech
Ciaran Bradley

Until recently spamming used to be limited to email and post. But increased competition, cloud messaging services and the growing availability of low-priced text bundles have made mobile an increasingly attractive and lucrative option for spammers.

Top Tech Trends To Make Family Lives Easier In 2013

Posted 15.01.2013 | UK Tech

Chris Sanderson, futurologist and co-founder of trend forecasting consultancy The Future Laboratory, presents his top tech trends to make family lives...

Revolutionising Wireless Audio

Paul Williamson | Posted 22.01.2013 | UK Tech
Paul Williamson

In the past few years, the demand from consumers to go wireless has increased rapidly, driven in part by the convergence of mobile devices and the increasingly demanding, tech-savvy users who have connected devices at their fingertips in their smartphones and tablets.

PICTURES: Fin-Tastic Site

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 08.11.2012 | UK Tech

Want to track Great White sharks? There’s an app for that. Well, an online GPS tool, anyway. The Ocearch Global Shark Tracker allows you to f...

Tall Tax Paid On Venti Profits

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.10.2012 | UK

Coffee giant Starbucks has reportedly paid just £8.6 million in corporation tax in 14 years of trading in Britain and nothing in the last three years...

Top Five Internet Companies Pay Minimal Corporation Tax

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.10.2012 | UK

While the headlines are concentrating on the minimal amounts of UK tax paid by Facebook, the social networking monolith is far from alone in generatin...

Starting a Dotcom Dream - Part Four

Anna Bance | Posted 22.09.2012 | UK Style
Anna Bance

Two years after the launch of Girl Meets Dress, the first and leading online Luxury rental destination, founder Anna Bance recalls how progress is being made to fulfil her dotcom dream

Starting a Dotcom Dream - Part Three

Anna Bance | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Style
Anna Bance

Two years after the launch of Girl Meets Dress, the first and leading online Luxury rental destination, founder Anna Bance recalls how progress is being made to fulfil her dotcom dream

O2 Make Light Of Network Problems On Twitter

The Huffington Post UK | Brogan Driscoll | Posted 12.07.2012 | UK

As O2 customers struggled to adapt to life without their mobile phones, the O2 Twitter account appeared to make light of the situation. Hundreds of...

Starting a Dotcom Dream - Part Two

Anna Bance | Posted 22.06.2012 | UK Tech
Anna Bance

If I've learnt one thing building Girl Meets Dress, it's that the team is everything. Of course not everyone has a Co-Founder, but in the early days before and during your first hires, it helps enormously if most of the skills needed are split between the founders. For us it was Finance / Tech / Operations v PR / Customer / Product / Design.

Bytesize News: 1 June 2012 (LIVEBLOG)

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 30.07.2012 | UK Tech

Every day in the world of tech there are thousands of stories we'd love to cover, but don't have the time. And then there are those stories where a...

Today In Tech: (LIVEBLOG)

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 30.07.2012 | UK Tech

Every day in the world of tech there are thousands of stories we'd love to cover, but don't have the time. And then there are those stories where a...

Spotify iPad App Review

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.07.2012 | UK Tech

Spotify iPad app review Rich colours, full album artwork and intuitive navigation. Written by: Melanie Hick Spotify iPad app Date publish...

Tech Start-Ups Help Themselves With New Cambridge Tech Jobs Fair

Tom Adeyoola | Posted 09.06.2012 | UK Tech
Tom Adeyoola

The most time consuming, difficult and important task for any start-up is hiring great people.

New Tech Gallery For London Science Museum

Telegraph | Posted 03.06.2012 | UK Tech

London's Science Museum will launch a new £6 million technology gallery in 2014, to tell the story of 200 years of communication technology. ...

Solar Storm Passes Earth

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK Tech

A massive solar storm that could have shut down Earth's communications systems hit the planet's magnetic field yesterday, largely without damage. "...