UK Tech

Watch: Frans Hofmeester's Lotte Timelapse Video, Girl Grows From Zero To 12 In Two Minutes

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.06.2012 | UK Tech

Could there be a better use of the internet? Frans Hofmeester, a Dutch father and filmmaker, has made an incredible timelapse video of his daughte...

Win One Of 100 Double Passes To Grand Designs Live London

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.06.2012 | UK Tech

Are you mad about high tech homes? Got a little bit of a thing for Kevin "Grand Designs" McCloud? Then do yourself a favour and enter our competition ...

St George's Day Google Doodle

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK Tech

St George may not have even been English, and the dragon may not have existed either, but that's no reason not to celebrate St George's day Google Doo...

Troll Hunting

Junaid Alvi | Posted 22.06.2012 | UK Tech
Junaid Alvi

Trolling recently got a lot of media coverage after a 21 year-old Swansea University student, Liam Stacey, was jailed for 56 days for tweeting various racist and offensive comments following the footballer Fabrice Muamba's cardiac arrest.

Social Media. Friend or Foe?

Anne Look | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK Tech
Anne Look

The ability to change and roll with new developments has become the most pivotal aspect in our modern lives. Social media isn't only changing our working lives either - it's a pressure cooker for our personal lives that requires a constant maintenance and ironing out of bumps in the night.

The Week That Was: Changing Times

Carla Buzasi | Posted 21.06.2012 | UK
Carla Buzasi

'Ceeya Ceefax' ran the Sun's headline as this week's official switchover to digital TV spelt the end of the television-based information and news service. Checked weekly at its peak in the Nineties by around a third of the British population, the retro news pages updated its last flight details, that day's weather and then disappeared from our screens forever... Time for a little nostalgia? Barely. A straw poll round the office offered up the not-too-startling revelation that most of us presumed it had ended years ago. How on earth had it survived this long in the age of Google?

Nasa Photos Of The Week: Moscow At Night, Space Shuttles, Orion Test

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.04.2012 | UK Tech

It was a big week at Nasa this week. The space shuttle Discovery rolled into its autumn years, retiring to the US National Air and Space Museum after ...

Social Media - Friend or Foe?

Anne Look | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK Tech
Anne Look

If you don't have a website, a blog, Facebook (personal and company page of course), Twitter account, a running LinkedIn profile, updated Gorkana listing, Polyvore, Pinterest, A Small World, an Android AND iPhone (one for function and one for peer recognition), oh and Foursquare - we simply become irrelevant if we aren't in the 'scene' of a young and highly competitive environment.

Vote For The Winners Of Our First Ever Draw Something Challenge

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.04.2012 | UK Tech

The first week of our Draw Something Challenge has come to a close, and below are the outstanding pictures we've drawn for you, and you've drawn for u...

GCHQ Releases WWII Enigma Code Breaking Turing Papers

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.04.2012 | UK Tech

Papers written by the Nazi Enigma code breaker Alan Turing, have been released by the government communications office, GCHQ. The release marks the ce...

Apple To Create 500 Jobs In Cork

SiliconRepublic | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK Tech

Apple has confirmed it will expand its European base in Cork, creating 500 jobs over the next 18 months in the process. RTÉ news reports that Appl...

Sparx 3D Computer Game Beats Teen Depression

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK Tech

Playing a 3D computer game could be just as effective at treating young people with depression as face-to-face counselling, new research has suggested...

Are BlackBerrys Addictive?

Rupert Wolfe-Murray | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Rupert Wolfe-Murray

I got my first BlackBerry about three months ago. Immediately I was hooked. Then a few things happened that made me realise that perhaps I was being dragged into a vortex of addiction.

E-commerce is Where Growth Is

Eva Grzybek | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK
Eva Grzybek

E-commerce really does look to be the future of retail as well as many other sectors.

Draw Something Adds Social Features, Facebook, Twitter Sharing

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK Tech

The addictive drawing app Draw Something from Zynga has just got more social. Players can now share their Draw Something masterpieces on Facebook ...

Tech Smashes The TIME Top 100 List For 2012

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK Tech

Technology industry leaders took out a great chunk of spots in TIME's annual list of the top 100 most influential people, released yesterday. The ...

'Trolling' is Unacceptable But Are Celebrities Making Themselves Too Accessible?

Cynthia Lawrence | Posted 18.06.2012 | Home
Cynthia Lawrence

In recent weeks the news has been dominated with reports about cyber 'trolling' or in layman's terms, abuse or harassment posted on social networking sites. Celebrities in particular have become targets of such cyber 'trolls' from Ashton Kutcher to the lesser-known, former TV presenter Richard Bacon.

A Sticker On Your Mobile Allows Barclaycard Contactless Payments

PA | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Tech

Millions of Barclaycard Visa credit card customers will be able to make "contactless" payments using a sticker attached to the back of their mobile ph...

Goodbye Ceefax

Sam Sheppard | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Tech
Sam Sheppard

I have not used Ceefax in at least 10 years, and after today, I never will be able to again because it is going away. To make an inside joke, if you were to go to page 606 now, you would find it to be completely blank, a fact that has somewhat unnerved me.

Lucy Sherriff

Worrying 'Sexting' Trend On The Rise Among Children

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 18.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Children are unaware of the long-term consequences of sending sexually explicit images via text messages, known as "sexting", experts have warned as t...

Nasa Photos Of The Week: The UK At Night And Northern Lights

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Tech

The crew of the International Space Station clearly have the best views of any workplace. Flying around 240 miles above the eastern North Atlantic...

App Of The Day: Encyclopaedia Britannica For iPad

The Huffington Post UK | Luke McGee | Posted 18.04.2012 | UK Tech

Last month the internet was awash with nostalgia and sorrow when Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that they were going to stop printing their world ...

15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies

Melanie Hick | Posted 18.04.2012 | UK Tech

Austrian police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly hacking into 259 companies in just 90 days. The Austrian minor is accused of attacki...

Crystal Palace Tower Lights Up For Analogue Switch-Off

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.06.2012 | UK Tech

Londoners with a view across the south east of the city will be treated to the rehearsal of a light show at the Crystal Palace tower tonight, to mark ...

Halo 4 Launches On 6 November

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.06.2012 | UK Tech

It's official. Halo 4, the game we've been waiting for for four years, will be out on 6 November 2012. The Master Chief and his artificial intelli...