UK Tech

Photos: Look Familiar?

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 04.04.2013 | UK Tech

Thirty-two years ago Bill Gates and Paul Allen celebrated licensing MS-DOS to IBM by posing for a photograph surrounded by what was then the very late...

Could There Really Be 100 Billion Earths?

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 04.04.2013 | UK Tech

Astronomers experimenting with new methods of searching space say they expect to find 100 billion Earth-like planets. That's 100,000,000,000. Th...

This Is The First Picture Of Earth Taken From Space

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 04.04.2013 | UK Tech

Whilst it may not be as visually spectacular as the legendary 'Earth Rise' picture, this month marks the 53rd anniversary of a photo with much more si...

PICS: The World Has A New Electric Car

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 04.04.2013 | UK Tech

The performance gap between electric and traditionally powered vehicles has narrowed again with the introduction of the SP:01, the world's latest fast...

Listen Up!

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education

Music is an essential part of student life, and, when you're studying hard in the library, having a pair of headphones which won't leak out noise and ...

Gaming Google Is No Longer an Option - Search, Social Media and PR Integration is the Key

Judith Lewis | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK Tech
Judith Lewis

For years, certain companies have made a living doing something akin to 'gaming' the Google search results. By focusing on a single distribution channel, they have built visibility in the search engine result pages in order to acquire new customers or new leads. Recent changes in the Google search algorithm have made this practice less useful

The Digital Reinvention of Comics

Dave Morris | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK Tech
Dave Morris

Comics have always been storyboards. In the absence of today's tech, writers and artists had to find ways to nudge the reader's attention to the right word balloon, to make them parse and run the images cinematically in their mind without the intrusion of a storyboard's zoom lines and motion arrows.

Victory For Video Games In Classic FM Hall Of Fame

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 01.04.2013 | UK

Classic FM's Hall Of Fame, the radio station's annual countdown of the 300 ‘best’ pieces in the classical canon as voted for by the listeners, boa...

Review: The Art of Dead Space by Martin Robinson

Alice Charles | Posted 30.03.2013 | UK Entertainment
Alice Charles

Even for non-gamer like me, it's engrossing to see just how much thought goes into creating a top-of-the-line game such as Dead Space. I might even check out the game itself.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Means More Than Just Neat Gadgets - It Could Mean a Greener Future for Everyone

Dr Alex Rogers | Posted 29.03.2013 | UK Tech
Dr Alex Rogers

Despite a number of false dawns, artificial intelligence (AI) is finally beginning to deliver on some of its early promise. Such human level intelligence is still some way off, if achievable at all.

Five Recession-Busting Apps That Will Help You Make Money

Chris Mayhew | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK Tech
Chris Mayhew

The phrase 'there's an app for everything' is used a lot these days but it is slowly becoming reality. This type of technology has come on in leaps and bounds since the development of smartphones and we are reaching a point where there almost is an app for anything you would want to do.

Imaginary Relationships: Games, Books and Interactivity

Dave Morris | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK Tech
Dave Morris

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think.

Linkedin Etiquette - Why Link and Not Shake?

Marco Bertozzi | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK Tech
Marco Bertozzi

In the last two days I have had discussions about how to use Linkedin. When I say use I mean the etiquette of connections, why you connect and how you should behave once you have. You always assume everyone is in it for the same reason, but that is not necessarily true as I have found out.

How to Use the Web to Research Property Investment

Ruth Harrison Roberts | Posted 22.05.2013 | UK Tech
Ruth Harrison Roberts

The banking crisis in 2008 has made getting cheap cash to deposit on houses harder to come by and I'm going to use ultra-conservative figures to see if we can still get into the game. Based on having to find a 25% deposit, which is what a lot of lenders are asking for lets see if we can invest in some property.

The Masters of Monetisation

Josh Graff | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Tech
Josh Graff

This was a jam-packed seminar and a jam-packed stage, with lots of passionate views. So congratulations to moderator David Pemsel for quickly popping the arguments over "who had the biggest data"... and focusing instead on data as an enabler.

The Best Advice Ever from James Caan and Annabel Karmel

Josh Graff | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Tech
Josh Graff

As best advice, that feels like a great way to sum up the session: confronting the fear of failure head on, having the courage to go ahead but having the connections (and the right questions to ask them) to make things work.

Tech: Progression and Innovation

Graeme Menday | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Tech
Graeme Menday

The world of technical innovation has exploded over the past five years and is still progressing at an amazing rate, with mostly younger people being at the forefront of this revolution. This explosion is going to become even more prevalent this year with one the last platforms to be opened up with the introduction of the Ouya games console.

PICTURES: The Young Entrepreneurs We're In Awe Of

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education

Nick D'Aloisio's just sold his company to Yahoo for tens of millions of pounds - and he's only 17 (way to make us feel good about ourselves). But h...

Teenage Tech Whiz Sells App To Yahoo! For Millions...

PA | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Tech

A teenager has sold an app he designed to Yahoo! in a deal believed to be worth tens of millions of pounds. Nick D'Aloisio created the tool at his ...

Students According To The Gospel Of Google

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education

Students are annoying, lazy and poor, says the gospel according to Google, while language students are nearing extinction and medical students are arr...

Data and Mobile Creative: Can't We All Just Get Along?

David Gwozdz | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Tech
David Gwozdz

In advertising, the ability to tell a compelling story that evokes emotions (humour, suspense, fear or compassion), engages audiences, pushes the boundaries of creativity and innovates through the use of technology often distinguishes a successful campaign from a "flop."

2013: A Transformative Year for Tech?

Lucy Hedges | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Tech
Lucy Hedges

2013 promises to be one of the most transformative in tech ever. In fact, it's already started with the industry's biggest annual circus, CES, which saw the introduction of curved OLEDs, 4K TVs and tablets, 1080p smartphones, a smorgasbord of smartphone-connected gizmos, self-driving cars and the evolution of motion control.

Mobile Revolution for Small Traders

Mark Little | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Tech
Mark Little

What we now carry around in our pockets are more like mini computers, equipped with the capabilities of cameras, jukeboxes, libraries and games consoles. In the space of time it takes to download an app, almost limitless functionality can be added.

It's About Creating a Virtuous Circle. The UK Is in One But the Public Just Doesn't Know It

Susie Hargreaves | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Tech
Susie Hargreaves

The ComRes poll told us that our mission is correct; 96% of Britons support the removal of criminal content from the internet. All we can do is continue getting better at it, do more, work faster and as the poll shows, actually tell people about it.

WIN White Bose AE2i Headphones Worth £149.99

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education

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