UK Tech

Xboxes Can Be Hacked For Credit Card Information

Kotaku | Posted 30.05.2012 | UK Tech

You might not want to sell or give away your Xbox 360 any time soon. Not without taking a hammer to the hard drive....

BlackBerry - A Managed Decline?

Karan Chadda | Posted 30.05.2012 | UK Tech
Karan Chadda

BlackBerry used to set the trends, then they tried to follow them with the launch of touchscreen phones and tablet computers, now they're trying to fight them. I'm not sure they'll succeed.

Would You? Kieron-Scott Woodhouse Designs Bamboo Smartphone - PHOTOS, VIDEO

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK Tech

A London student has created the world's first ever bamboo smartphone. Kieron-Scott Woodhouse's stylish design replaces metal and plastic with slick, ...

Melanie Hick

Jealous Much? Google Campus London's Gorgeous New Offices - PHOTOS

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK Tech

Raw chipboard walls, industrial light-fittings and colourful cafe-style break-out areas are the new features of Google's new London start-up campus. ...

Google Tablet Is Coming Soon

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK Tech

Google will take on Apple, selling tablet computers via its own online store, The Wall Street Journal reports. The WSJ reports that the tablets wi...

BlackBerry Maker RIM Posts $125 Million Loss, Move To Business Focus

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK Tech

BlackBerry maker RIM has reported a quarterly loss of $125 million, £78m, and will focus on the business market. The mobile phone maker has suffer...

Can Neutrinos Solve the Mystery of the Matter-Antimatter Unbalance?

Nicola Guttridge | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK Tech
Nicola Guttridge

All evidence suggests that neutrinos have mass, but of such a small amount that it is assumed to be negligible. As they travel so fast, their mass must necessarily be tiny - this leads on to the physics controversy of 2011: the saga of the faster-than-light neutrinos.

Would You hand Your Facebook Password To Your Boss?

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.03.2012 | UK Tech

Would you hand your Facebook password over to a boss or potential employer? With unemployment at its highest for 17 years in the UK, desperate job app...

LG Flexible Plastic E-Paper Display Coming To The UK In April

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK Tech

It bends, it flexes and displays your daily digest. LG's astounding flexible electronic paper display (EPD) will arrive at the beginning of April. ...

Tim Cook, Apple Chief, Visits Foxconn Factory

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK Tech

Today Apple released official photos of Tim Cook, Apple CEO, visiting the new Foxconn factory and its iPhone production line in Zhengzhou. The photos ...

New Playstation 4 Will Be Called Orbis

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech

The highly anticipated new Playstation, the Playstation 4, will be called Orbis according to rumours stemming from Kotaku. Kotaku reports that it ...

A Billion Stars, One Photo

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech

Around one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together for the first time in an image captured over a decade by astronomers. Scientists pro...

Final Fantasy XI: The Beginning of Reality

Rollo Ross | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech
Rollo Ross

I became good in-game friends with an extreme variety of this Final Fantasy world's population from soldiers serving in Afghanistan, single mums from Dalston and unemployed Muslim kids in Leeds to convicted bank robbers, professional live-cam gay "models," and croupiers from Vegas.

How the 10% Rule benefits Broadband Users

Julia Kukiewicz | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech
Julia Kukiewicz

Clearer speed ads aren't just fairer. UK households have been slow to take up fibre products, stifling further investment in our infrastructure. If the ASA enforced rules which made clear the very real differences between the two technologies that might not be the case.

Has Internet Dating Killed Romance?

Lizzie Cernik | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Lizzie Cernik

In 1992 the lonely hearts section of the internet was dominated by the kind of socially inadequate wackadoodles that collect badger porn and stroke your bottom on public transport. Fast forward 20 years and these websites are fronted by attractive young professionals with long swishy hair and pearly white TV presenter smiles.

How Weavrs Can Destroy Your Online Identity

Wired | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech

Writer Jon Ronson is at war with himself on Twitter. In February, an organisation called Philter Phactory created a Twitter account called @jon_ronson...

The Guitar That's Travelled 50,000 Times Around The World

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech

A Larrivée parlour acoustic guitar has travelled 50,000 times around the Earth in the International Space Station, making it easily the most widely t...

Play In Hubble's Legacy Archive And Win Prizes

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech

Amateur stargazers, this is your day. Hubble is opening its archive for you to get your hands on their images, use their pro astronomy software and po...

A Tribute to Edd Gould (1988 - 2012)

Stephen Frizzle | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Comedy
Stephen Frizzle

This is such a loss to the world of comedy, but he has left behind such a legacy. To Edd Gould, a truly selfless and creative man.

Billions Of Potentially Habitable Planets May Exist In Our Galaxy

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.03.2012 | UK Tech

Billions of potentially habitable planets may exist in our galaxy, the Milky Way, according to a study. Around 100 "super-Earths" may be found on o...

Angry Birds Space Reaches 10 Million Downloads

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Tech

It's taken just three days for Angry Birds Space, the latest game from Rovio, to top a whopping 10 million downloads. Rovio could have made at lea...

The Budget's Focus Versus Reality: How Regulation is Damaging Innovation in Britain

Joe Cohen | Posted 28.03.2012 | UK Politics
Joe Cohen

Last week, the Chancellor released a budget designed, he said, for "reforming the nation's economy, so that we have enduring growth and jobs in the future." He lamented, "Britain has lost ground in the world's economy and needs to catch up.

Apple Offers Australians Refunds Over iPad 4G

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

Apple has refunded Australian iPad 4G owners because the iPad is not compatible with the country's 4G system. Australia's consumer watchdog, the A...

Amazon Kindle Touch Launches In UK

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.03.2012 | UK Tech

The Amazon Kindle Touch has launched today in the UK, a full six months after it was announced in the US. Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G are now...

Can Community Shares Save Local Pubs, Shops and Football Clubs?

Kevin Wood | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK Tech
Kevin Wood

Ethical finance schemes such as community shares have saved hundreds of local shops, pubs, cafes, transport schemes and broadband projects from closure. They are particularly popular in remote areas such as Cumbria because of the challenges involved in making rural businesses succeed.