UK Tech

Brooke Roberts: Knitting Brains Into Fashion

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.05.2012 | UK Tech

At first glance, it's just a pretty pattern. Swirls and curves follow the sway of the female form. But when London knitwear designer Brooke Roberts ex...

Parking Douche App Names And Shames Moscow's Worst Parkers

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.07.2012 | UK Tech

Bad parking is on par with aggressively standing on the left on a Tube escalator, drinking out of the milk carton at work and leaving one square of to...

Google To Help Change 'Catastrophically Boring' Computer Lessons

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 24.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Google is to fund computer science teachers in a bid to save the "sorry state" of computing education in the UK. Eric Schmidt, the company's chairm...

Neil Armstrong Rare Interview: People Love Conspiracy Theories

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.05.2012 | UK Tech

His unbeatable feat of being first man on the moon is rare, but landing an interview with Neil Armstrong is almost as historic. The man who shook ...

100 Years Of Innovation: IVF

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 24.05.2012 | UK Tech

IVF is a remarkable innovation, for the simple reason that without it, we wouldn’t have Louise Brown. Brown, the first ever test tube baby, w...

Let's Talk About Sex(ting)

Peter Watt | Posted 23.07.2012 | UK
Peter Watt

Quantitative research on sexting varies but the statistics suggest that between 15 and 40% of young people are involved in sexting, depending on their age and the way sexting is measured.

Have Women Rejected IT as a Career Choice?

Sheila Flavell | Posted 23.07.2012 | UK Tech
Sheila Flavell

I believe that one of the main reasons for the shortage of women in IT is due to the lack of female role models in the industry - what if Steve Jobs had been a woman?

Microsoft So.cl, The New Social Network Powered By Bing

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Tech

They brought us the first popular free email service in Hotmail. Now Microsoft is playing catch up to Facebook, opening up its So.cl social network to...

Jonathan Ive, Apple Designer, Knighted At Buckingham Palace

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.07.2012 | UK Tech

Sir Jonathan Ive, head of design at Apple, has been knighted at Buckingham Palace. The BBC reports that Apple's senior vice-president of industria...

Virtual Orchestra At London Science Museum

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK Tech

Love classically music, or did you never quite get into it? The London Science Museum has injected a philharmonia orchestra with a jolt of tech, to cr...

Eugene Polley, Inventor Of The TV Remote Control, Dies

BBC | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Tech

The inventor of the television remote control has died at the age of 96, his former employer has said. Zenith Electronics said Eugene Polley passed...

The Pulpable Singularity

James Poyner | Posted 22.07.2012 | UK Tech
James Poyner

I am a reader and a Kindle owner, I have seen the demise of music and book shops on the high street. Going digital is not the answer W is looking for. The nature of the Singularity, of any Singularity results in the eventual destruction of historical preservation of the former.

Play The Moog On Google's Doodle

PA | Sara C Nelson | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK

Today's Google doodle is more than a little special, and it comes in the form of an interactive musical treat that can be played using your mouse. ...

100 Years Of Innovation - The Satellite

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Tech

They study weather and climate, help you text your mum when you'r abroad and now even North Korea have one. Satellites are the orbital gadget bundles ...

Jonathan Ive: What Apple Is Working On Now Feels Like The Most Important Work

Telegraph | Posted 22.07.2012 | UK Tech

“It’s a really tough one. A lot does seem to come back to the fact that what we’re working on now feels like the most important and the best wor...

Jonathan Ive: What Apple Is Working On Now Feels Like The Most Important Work

Telegraph | Posted 22.07.2012 | UK Tech

"It's a really tough one. A lot does seem to come back to the fact that what we're working on now feels like the most important and the best work we'v...

Giselle's Copycat Fears

Nickee Todd | Posted 22.07.2012 | UK Style
Nickee Todd

When I have been faced with the possibly awkward situation of wearing the same get up as someone else, it can normally be brushed off with a simple "Clearly we both have good taste!" comment and made into a bonding experience as opposed to a polarising effect, with both fearing you will feature on "B*tch Stole My Look" on Joan River's Fashion Police.

Digital Shoreditch Festival Launches In London

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 22.07.2012 | UK Tech

A celebration of all things digital has sprung up in Shoreditch today. The Digital Shoreditch Festival has taken over a new, pop-up building called Ha...

Martha Lane Fox To Offer £159 Computers With Free Broadband

Telegraph | Posted 22.07.2012 | UK Tech

Get Online @ Home, a partnership between Microsoft, Talk Talk and Simplify Digital, aims to give millions of Britons who can't afford to get online th...

Foursquare Adds Olympics Venues To Check In

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

The London 2012 Olympics are about to get that much more social, as Foursquare announces that the Olympics venues will become check in points on Fours...

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.