UK Tech

Is My Jam The Future Of Music Sharing?

NME | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK Tech

Over the past few weeks, we've been getting hooked on This Is My Jam, a deceptively simple new website where you simply pick your jam – just one son...

Grandma's Social Media Tips

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK Tech

Chacho Puebla's grandma is not the kind to warn you about going out in a clean pair of underpants or holding doors open for the ladies. Grandma Puebla...

Tumblr, Thinspo and Self Harm, is Banning the Answer?

Nick Watts | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Nick Watts

Tumblr is fairly notorious as a platform to go find your images for anything to do with self harm and so called 'thinspiration'. These kinds of resources have been labelled by professionals and campaigners as damaging for many years now and their consequences have been the base of much fierce debate.

HIP 11952 - The Oldest Ever Exoplanet System Discovered

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK Tech

An ancient planetary system from 13 billion years ago has been discovered in the constellation Cetus, 375 lightyears from Earth, that could determine ...

Win A Nokia Lumia 800 On Three With £50 Credit

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK Tech

We’ve teamed up with Three, the only network that gives you all-you-can-eat data on both contract and pay-as-you-go, to offer one lucky reader the c...

O2 Hands Customer Details To Pornographer

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK Tech

The personal details of more than 9,000 O2 broadband subscribers are to be handed over to porn companies Golden Eye International and Ben Dover Produc...

Add Enemies On Facebook With EnemyGraph

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK Tech

In the Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote "keep your friends close and your enemies closer". Now you can take the Chinese military general's ancient advice...

Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis Lights Up Alaskan Skies (PICTURES, VIDEO)

Barcroft Media | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK

Source: Barcroft Media Like a green ghost curtain in the night sky these epic shots show the northern lights at their most spectacular. Taken ...

How Entrepreneurs Do Entrepreneurship - in Bath

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech
Margaret Heffernan

Every time I go to a conference about creativity and innovation, I'm struck by just how uncreative and dull they are: hideous bland venues that are too big and lack emotion house stale formats and dreary presentation.

Mies Van Der Rohe Google Doodle

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German architect whose angular buildings transformed modern living, stars in the Google doodle of the day. On what w...

Friends Reunited Relaunch

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK Tech

Like a reformation tour of a once great boy band, Friends Reunited has whacked on the slap, shimmied into its old skinny jeans and re-launched as the ...

Microsoft To Shutdown Zeus Botnet

BBC | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK Tech

A global operation has been undertaken to disable a number of botnets believed to be responsible for the theft of millions of pounds, Microsoft has sa...

The New Friends Reunited, Fitting in by Standing Out

Matt Bushby | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech
Matt Bushby

Preceded only by Friendster in the US, Friends Reunited was at the forefront of social media, a phenomenon that would go on to be worth billions and become the framework for our online lives.

What Businesses Are Looking for in Young People Today

Jo Barnard | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Jo Barnard

The state of the economy means that young people have to work harder now to get that first step on the career ladder. While employers expect more, gaining the necessary skills to be considered for junior roles in today's fast-paced and demanding working environments actually benefits everyone.

The Fastest Adopted Gadgets Of The Last 50 Years

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech

If you had to list the most popular gadgets of the last 50 years, what would you pick? The wireless radio, laptop computer or PC perhaps? Would th...

Why Millions of Barclays Users Might be Exposed to Fraud

Benjamin Cohen | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech
Benjamin Cohen

I exposed that Barclay's contactless Visa cards can be read by newer Google Android phones using specially designed but devastatingly simple software, and the details can be used to make fraudulent purchases on Amazon. Thus far, we've had very little in the way of answers.

The Tricky Interview Questions That Google Has Banned

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech

With unemployment figures hitting a 17-year high at 2.64 million in the UK, what lengths would you go to to get a job? Google makes its new employe...

Millions Of Barclay Contactless Card Users At Risk of Fraud

Channel4 | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech

Barclays customers using contactless bank cards could have their data stolen without even knowing through readers in new mobile phones, Channel 4 News...

Troubled Video Games Retailer Game Could Be Saved

Huffington Post UK/PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech

Thousands of jobs at video games retailer Game could be saved if a last-ditch rescue attempt goes ahead. Game, which operates 600 stores in the UK ...

BT Releases RABIT To Catch Cable Thieves

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Tech

BT let the RABIT out of the bag on Monday when it announced a new burglar alarm technology designed to catch cable thieves. Rapid Assessment BT In...

FIFA Street Leads UK Games Chart

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 25.05.2012 | UK Tech

Which games developer is smashing the UK gaming charts in 2012? That would be EA sports, the publisher behind FIFA Street, this week's number one, and...

Could RBS Save Game?

Telegraph | Posted 25.05.2012 | UK Tech

It is understood that RBS, one of the company’s six lenders, is leading a plan to buy a stake in Game after it is placed into administration today. ...

I Copy & Paste Therefore I Am

Kristin Knox | Posted 25.05.2012 | UK Style
Kristin Knox

I'm a full time blogger who routinely wakes up to discover a selection of her work - from images to text to ideas to coined phrases - ripped off unceremoniously across the internet, without even so much as a hint of citation. And I am certainly not the only one.

Astronauts Shelter In Escape Capsules To Avoid Drifting Space Junk

Nasa | Posted 24.03.2012 | UK Tech

Crew from the International Space Station have been given the all clear to return to the complex after taking refuge in escape capsules as a piece of ...

Cities of the Future - Beautiful Urban Metropolis or Overcrowded and Poverty-Stricken?

Phil Pauley | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Tech
Phil Pauley

According to latest predictions by the U.N., by 2050, two-thirds of the world population will live in cities. By then, the world's population will have risen by 30 percent to nine billion.