UK Tech

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.

Virtual Protesters

Stephanie Allen | Posted 21.05.2012 | UK
Stephanie Allen

Will the street protests and campaigns of the past become online videos that people can 'like' from the comfort of their desk chair, with a cup of tea in one hand whilst the other acts like an eager activist, just waiting to click on another link to a campaigning cause?

Bad Luck Machester: Top Ten Riskiest Online Cities

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

Bad luck if you live in Manchester. Yours is the riskiest city to go online not just the UK, but in the whole of Europe. A survey by online securi...

Mass Effect 3 - Why All the Attention?

Jamal Wright | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Tech
Jamal Wright

Mass Effect (ME) has been in the news a fair amount lately. I'm not really shocked at the reactions as I know how people become attached to certain IPs (plus the previous titles were no strangers to controversy).

Angry Birds Space Review

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

Launched from the International Space Station, with a huge installation on Seattle's Space Needle and a National Geographic special edition, Angry Bir...

Facebook Removes Image Of Two Men Kissing

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 23.03.2012 | UK

Facebook has come under fire after a picture of two men kissing was apparently removed from the site because it infringed publishing rules of posting ...

Is Apple Working On A Glass iPhone?

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Tech

Apple has filed a patent for a handheld computing device “that includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a glass material that can b...

Nasa Photos Of The Week, Mars Rover, Solar Flares, Spider Web Of Stars

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

New photos in from Nasa this week track the ongoing solar flares, show Orion as you've never seen it before and a self-portait of the Mars Rover. ...

Google Chrome: The Most Popular Browser In The World?

CNET | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Tech

Chrome has overtaken Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser, but Google's minimalist software only stayed on top for one day....

'UFO Fragment' Lands In Siberia, Russia (VIDEO, PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 23.03.2012 | UK

A chunk of metal the size of a car has crashed to earth close to a remote Siberian village. Russian media say the 31st 7lb item, which was discove...

Nintendo's Sponsored Tweet Fail

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

Nintendo has spawned a Twitter backlash today with a sponsored tweet to promote the new Kid Icarus game. The hashtag #aNewNintendoHeroRises design...

Juan Gris, Cubist Painter, Stars In Google Doodle

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 23.03.2012 | UK Tech

Juan Gris, the Spanish cubist painter, is honoured in the Google doodle of the day. Gris was a contemporary of Modigiliani, Matisse and Picasso an...

ATV Space Truck Blasts Off For International Space Station

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

Europe's Ariane ATV space truck has blasted off for the International Space Station, illuminating the night sky over French Guiana. The European S...

Is Apple Doomed? Yes - But Only as Doomed as Everything Else

Michael Rundle | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Tech
Michael Rundle

Yes, in a finite universe it is basically inevitable Apple will run into trouble. But it is a mistake to see in Apple's enormous recent success, or even in Steve Jobs' death, a set-up for its eventual total failure.

Smartphone News Apps Boom

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 22.03.2012 | UK Tech

One in two smartphone owners use their phone to read news, a figure that's almost double that of this time last year. New research from ComScore s...

Kinect Rush Review

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

Kinect Rush review Written by: Melanie Hick Date published: 03/22/2012 5 / 5 stars Kinect Rush could be the most fun you can have jump...

Pinterest Hires Facebook's Money Man Tim Kendall

Fortune | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Tech

Pinterest just hired Tim Kendall, who spent many years as Facebook's director of monetization, to build out the business....

Kim Dotcom Gets $48,000 Monthly Living Expenses

NZHerald | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Tech

A high court there has bumped up the accused pirate's monthly living allowance from $20,000 New Zealand dollars to $60,000, the equivalent of $48,500 ...

Pandora’s Tower Trailer For Wii: Most Stomach-Churning Game Premise Ever?

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

Could Pandora's Tower be the most stomach-churning premise for a game since Man Hunt? The new trailer, shown below, shows that the new game will f...