UK Tech

Google Home Entertainment System

Guardian.co.uk | Melanie Hick | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Tech

Google is planning a major push into home entertainment with a new music streaming system controlled by Android smartphones....

Orville And Keith Harris "Unlock A Chicken" In Giffgaff Hip-Hop Video

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK

Keith Harris and his furry sidekick Orville have launched a rap single in a bid to help free battery hens. The pair have teamed up with SIM only pr...

To Patent or Not to Patent, That is the Question

Ellee Seymour | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK Tech
Ellee Seymour

I wonder how many other inventors would dare to follow Musk's lead. I guess as space travel is such a small and specialised market, it's a risk which Musk can take, though ultimately extremely lucrative.

Cue Songs, Peter Gabriel's Venture To Save The Music Industry

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Tech

Can Peter Gabriel save the music industry with his new digital music project, Cue Songs? EMI has just been sold for a handful of brass knockers, to...

Downturns: All Negative?

Priya Mahida | Posted 09.04.2012 | UK Tech
Priya Mahida

Is the rise in unemployment always as negative as it's portrayed in the media? In other words, is unemployment a threat or an opportunity?

Google Hearts You

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK Tech

Google is embracing the spirit of Valentine’s Day… with a nightmarish mathematical equation. But thankfully, the formula, if typed into the se...

Apple iPad3 Release Date Rumours

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Tech

Apple's iPad 2 was only released on March 2 2011, but the Apple iPad 3 release rumours and heating up. Naturally, Apple has nothing to add to the ...

Innovation Starts With Teaching That Matters

Pam Tatlow | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Pam Tatlow

It may still be a typical scene of university life - rows of students in front of a lecturer and Powerpoint slides - but it's also one many people want to see less of, including employers and the students themselves.

Twitmusic - Welcome to the Music Industries New Order

Andrew Telling | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK Tech
Andrew Telling

The music industry is changing. The old guard and a new order are curiously juxtaposed as one attempts to survive and adapt while the other evolves confidently on the periphery of an inevitable future. I am, of course, talking about the rise of social media and its continuing stronghold on how we learn about, listen to and buy our music.

3-D Laser Map Shows How Earthquakes Change The Landscape

Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.02.2012 | UK

Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape and how fault lines behave. In the latest issue of the journal Science, a...

Parents' Concerns Over Primary Children's Porn Discussions

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 09.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Primary school children have raised concerns amongst parents and teachers after they were caught discussing a pornographic website at school, shortly ...

Get Your Skis On! Mars Avalanche Stirs Up The Red Planet

Caters News | Posted 09.02.2012 | UK Tech

It's avalanche season...on Mars, and this latest out-of-this-world photograph reveals 'snow' landslides on the Red Planet. As the snap shows, Mart...

Breast is Best

Caroline Argyropulo-Palmer | Posted 09.04.2012 | UK
Caroline Argyropulo-Palmer

Facebook's action puts photographs of breastfeeding in the same category as pornographic pictures. But breastfeeding is not a sexy thing to do. I have also never seen a woman try to sexualise it. They are discreetly feeding their child.

RAF To Get A New £200m Transport Plane

PA | Posted 08.02.2012 | UK

The Ministry of Defence is to buy a new £200m C-17 military transporter to move troops around and help with any future Libya-style evacuations, David...

Payments, but Not as We Know Them

Raconteur Media | Posted 07.04.2012 | UK Tech
Raconteur Media

Stephen Armstrong delves into a futuristic world of mobile phones in the form of jewellery, biometrics and cryptocurrencies. He discovers however that new trends will only catch on if there's enough to tempt both retailers and consumers.

Netflix: 'Please Don't Assume That British People are Interested in British Television'

Garry Lee | Posted 07.04.2012 | UK Entertainment
Garry Lee

Netflix, please do not assume that British people are always interested in British television. Giving me a sorting button to access exclusively British content and not a similar sorting button for exclusively accessing American television shows is only really adding insult to injury.

Swirling Milky Way Glitters Above American National Parks

Barcroft Media | Posted 08.04.2012 | UK

These stunning images capture the glory of the Milky Way and are taken with just a simple digital camera. Revealing the Earth's place in our swirli...

Emoticon Yourself

Jade Conroy | Posted 08.04.2012 | UK Tech
Jade Conroy

The emoticon got cool again. The simple and cheeky communicative zeitgeist that is the smiley face of the 21st century is no longer confined to the realm of teenage girls (perhaps because social media is no longer confined to the realm of teenagers).

Safer Internet Day and Fraping: He Who Filches From Me My Good Name...

Stephen Carrick-Davies | Posted 08.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Stephen Carrick-Davies

It's not just the new apps or terminology that is lost on parents, most are unaware that these new peer activities are wrecking teenager relationships and have massive psychological re-percussions. Teenage years are hard enough as they are without this added pressure of online mistrust and reputation assignation.

'A Breeding Ground For Terrorism': MPs On The Internet

PA | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Politics

The internet is a "fertile breeding ground for terrorism" and plays a part in most, if not all, cases of violent radicalisation, MPs said today. In...

Barton In Trouble Over Terry Tweets

PA | Posted 05.04.2012 | UK

Footballer Joey Barton could be in trouble with the Attorney General after posting a series of comments online about John Terry ahead of his trial for...

Facebook IPO Valuation: It's All About the Costs, Not the Revenue

Richard Stacy | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Tech
Richard Stacy

I have had a quick look at the Facebook prospectus. The thing I found really interesting was not confirmation of revenue and its dependence on advertising, but a very first glimpse of how Facebook's costs are structured.

Milky Way Creates Starry Night Over Wales (Photos)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 03.02.2012 | UK Tech

It may look like a Martian landscape but these stunning pictures are actually of the Milky Way, taken from the Snowdonia National Park in Wales . ...

VIDEO: Nasa Captures The Dark Side Of The Moon

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 03.02.2012 | UK

Nasa's Moon "Grail" mission has brought back pictures of the far side of the moon, in a bid to teach mere earthlings the unknown side of our lunar orb...

Facebook Graffiti Artist Who Took Shares Instead Of Cash In Line For $200m Payday (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 02.02.2012 | Home

A graffiti artist who took shares in Facebook instead of payment for painting the headquarters walls seven years ago is in line for a $200m payday as ...