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Mario Tennis Open Nintendo 3DS Review

The Huffington Post UK | Luke McGee | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Tech

Mario Tennis Open Nintendo 3DS Review All sport is more fun when seasoned with a sprinkling of Nintendo’s lunatic dust. Written by: Luke McGe...

SpaceX Falcon 9 And Dragon Lift Off From Cape Canaveral

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Tech

SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule at 3:44 AM eastern time in the US carrying the ashes of Star Trek's Scotty, ac...

100 Years Of Innovation - Human Genome Map

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Tech

How well do you think you can ever know other people? The complete map of the human genome, every chemical twitch that makes up our collective DNA, me...

Can You Definitely Spell?

PA | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Technology has left many Britons unable to spell words like "definitely" and "separate", a survey has found. It suggests that the UK has produced a...

Would You Pay to Post on Your Facebook Wall?

Mark Hillary | Posted 21.07.2012 | UK Tech
Mark Hillary

And one of the key questions is how Facebook will increase the amount of revenue they earn from advertising and other services. Which leads me to a little experiment they have been undertaking recently in New Zealand.

London 2012 - Sega's Official Olympics Video Game - WATCH

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Tech

Did you miss out on tickets for the Olympics like most of us? Come 26 June, you'll have a more intimate, and some might say better, way of enjoying Lo...

Consigned to History by the Smartphone

Andrew Kemshall | Posted 21.07.2012 | UK Tech
Andrew Kemshall

It might seem hard to believe but the mobile phone was first introduced to the UK in 1985. Just 27 years later and the device that we now love is hardly recognisable to those first Motorola handsets. And it's not just the size and battery life that's changed.

Improve Your Efficiency, Turn Off Your Smart Phone

Guardian.co.uk | Posted 20.07.2012 | UK Tech

One of the great cautionary adages of our culture is: "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it." And it applies in spades to the kind of i...

The Universe of Strings - A Contemporary View and Outlook

Henryk Frystacki, Ph.D | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK Tech
Henryk Frystacki, Ph.D

String physicists assume that energetic pieces of threads are the keys to quantum gravity and to everything else of our perceived reality throughout the universe. The basic elements of this theory are "strings" or membranes, i.e. subatomic one-dimensional energy threads and built areas.

The Hype Around Big Data - What's it All About?

Conrad Constantine | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Tech
Conrad Constantine

Why is everyone so hyped over Big Data?

Iran Threatens To Sue Google Over 'Omission Of Persian Gulf'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 18.05.2012 | UK

Iran is threatening to sue Google over the internet search giant's refusal to name a waterway on its map service. Google appears to have left the s...

Nasa Photos Of The Week

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK Tech

This week's extraordinary nasa photos include an amazingly psychedelic look at space. The image above, is a composite shot of 18 images captured b...

Met Police Will 'Hack' Phone Data Before Charging Suspects

BBC | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK Tech

The Metropolitan Police has implemented a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody. The data includes call history, texts ...

Ten Things You Might Not Know About Facebook

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Tech

Manchester residents are 9% more likely than the average UK web users to visit Facebook in a given month. 500 million hours are spent on Facebook ...

Facebook Shares To Sell At £24 Today

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Tech

Facebook shares are being offered to the public for 38 US dollars (£24) in one of the biggest ever US stock flotations. The social media giant is ...

Why a Woman's Femininity is Her Strength

Belinda Parmar | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Tech
Belinda Parmar

Recently I was lucky enough to talk to Lee Epting, Content Services Director at Vodafone. But how has she felt working as a woman in a man's world? Does she feel - like many women I've spoken to - that she has to sacrifice femininity in order to achieve strength in the workplace? At the end of the day, does Lee have to put on a 'man suit' and play by men's rules?

The Pirate Bay Hacked

BBC | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Tech

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack....

Video Games And New Medical Devices To Transform The NHS

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Tech

At-home video games and a remote, implantable blood pressure monitor wil revolutionise the NHS, according to the Wellcome Trust. Working with the ...

Facebook Set For $16bn Stock Flotation

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.05.2012 | UK

Facebook is preparing for one of the biggest ever US stock flotations on Friday, when it will sell off hundreds of millions of shares to the public. ...

Twitter is Like...

Ruth Dawkins | Posted 16.07.2012 | UK Tech
Ruth Dawkins

Joining Twitter is like suddenly discovering an extra room in your house. You're just walking from your kitchen to your living room one evening and you notice a door that you've never opened before. You decide to turn the handle and have a look.

US Leads The World At Hacking, UK Trails In Seventh Place

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.05.2012 | UK Tech

There's one thing that the US is clearly better at than the UK, and that's computer hacking. Our friends across the pond have smashed us in th...

World's First Tidal Turbines To Turn Off The Coast Of Islay

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.07.2012 | UK Tech

An underwater turbine destined to form part of a major green energy project is already using tidal power to produce electricity for homes on a remote ...

Our Friends Electric - I Drive the Chevrolet Volt

Jo Whiley | Posted 16.07.2012 | UK Tech
Jo Whiley

Having only previously been a passenger in the fleet of green taxis that shuttle you around London, I was intrigued to see what it was like to be behind the wheel of an electric car.

Ubiquitous Computing: Blurring the Mind and Machine Gap

Preetam Kaushik | Posted 15.07.2012 | UK Tech
Preetam Kaushik

When humans, machines and the internet get together, what will the future look like? Michael Chorost's fascinating The World Wide Mind takes us through a journey of all the possibilities.

Epic Time Lapse Map Shows Changing Face Of Europe

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 15.05.2012 | UK

A time lapse map of Europe showing the changing face of the embattled continent has racked up thousands of views on YouTube, with many claiming it's t...