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(VIDEO) Asteroid Watch: New Photos As It Passes Earth

Melanie Hick | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK Tech

The asteroid 2005 YU55 passes earth today, and here's its latest close-up. It's a little blurry, but you'd look blurry too if we took your photo from ...

Ten Great Call Of Duty Gameplay Videos

Melanie Hick | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK Tech

The latest Call Of Duty game, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, arrives tonight at midnight, and follows 17 other iterations of the game. Sev-en-teen. C...

Ed Vaizey: London Beats Silicon Valley, Gaming, Cloud-Computing Is The Future

Melanie Hick | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK Tech

London has the talent and lifestyle to lure investors, and businesses, away from Silicon Valley to the UK, says Ed Vaizey. The minister for Culture...

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Brad Goldpaint's Amazing Space Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK Tech

"Great heavens above" is the specialist subject of photographer Brad Goldpaint, who took these magnificent photographs on a trek across north America....

(WATCH) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Trailer

Melanie Hick | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK Tech

The game you've been waiting for, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, arrives at one minute past midnight November 8, on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Expecte...

Ed Vaizey To Launch Internet Week Europe Next Week

Melanie Hick | Posted 04.01.2012 | UK Tech

Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries will launch Internet Week Europe next week at The Hospital Club in central...

Anonymous Set To Bring Down Facebook Nov 5

Mashable | Melanie Hick | Posted 04.01.2012 | UK Tech

Anonymous, a group of hacker activists, have made a mysterious career out of big game hunting. The group, or hackers purporting to be part of Anonymou...

UK Government Could Use Malware To Fight Crime

Melanie Hick | Posted 04.01.2012 | UK Tech

The UK government could use trojans or malware to fight organised crime, according to the BBC. Following this week's London Conference on Cyberspac...

(WATCH) Nasa Finds Youngest, Brightest Millisecond Pulsar

Melanie Hick | Posted 04.01.2012 | UK Tech

Wondered where you'd left that millisecond pulsar of yours? Don't fret, Nasa's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found it and nine other equally imp...

Asteroid Watch: You Can Track Asteroid Passing Earth

Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK Tech

Asteroid 2005 YU55 is the not-so catchy name of the rock that will hurtle past Earth on November 8. If you're into space, then pay attention, because ...

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(WATCH) Men From Mars: They're Back From Moscow Carpark

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.01.2012 | UK Tech

The Russian mission to "Mars" will end today, when six cosmonauts will leave the mock spaceship they've been locked in for 520 days. The three Russ...

Free Wi-Fi In London

Huffington Post UK | Posted 03.01.2012 | UK Tech

London, long starved of Wi-fi hotspots, get a big boost this week. Nokia kicks off a large-scale trial of free Wi-fi in the capital, with plans for a ...

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Space Photo Of The Day: Mars Mud Reveals Water

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.01.2012 | UK Tech

Mars may once have been flooded with water, according to a Nasa study looking into mud minerals across the planet. These colourful photos (above) ...

Top Ten Best James Bond Gadgets

Melanie Hick | Posted 03.01.2012 | UK Tech

The latest James Bond 007 film, Skyfall, has just been announced and that means more wonderful gadgets from Q. Beyond the hot Bond girls, and the equa...

Apple Promise To Fix Battery Problems

Guardian.co.uk | Huffington Post UK | Posted 03.01.2012 | UK Tech

Apple has said that it will address shortened battery life on the most recent three iPhone models using its iOS 5 software 'in a few weeks' as it send...

Facebook Users Experience Privacy Fatigue

Press Association | Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Tech

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Facebook users are struggling to keep up with the "dizzying" number of changes to privacy settings made by the social network, a ...

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Asus Eee Pad Wins Stuff Magazine Gadgets Of The Year 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Tech

Bucking the trend against the gadget industry's feckless Apple adoration, Stuff Magazine has awarded the Top Gadget of the Year to Asus' Eee Pad. ...

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Space Photo Of The Day: Exploding Gamma Ray Burst

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK Tech

You may not spend a lot of time outside at night looking up at the sky for various reasons - knife crime, Downton Abbey or light pollution for example...

Top Five Creepy Robots

Melanie Hick | Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Tech

Whether they slink along like a human, jog like a dog, or slither like a snake, some robots are creepier than others. Our top five creepy robots i...

(VIDEO) Soldier Robot That Sweats

Melanie Hick | Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Tech

It sweats like a trooper and does press-ups too, but you won't see Petman the human-form robot take to the field any time soon. This peaceful bot ...

Watch Chinese Rocket Take Off

Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK Tech

China has taken the next step in its quest to become a major space power with the launch of the unmanned Shenzhou 8 vehicle....

Are You Connected? Ofcom Releases Nationwide Internet And Mobile Map

Melanie Hick | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK Tech

If you're reading this, you most likely don't live in the Scottish Highlands, Wales or the Outer Hebrides. Those are just three of the areas that Ofco...

Space Photo Of The Day: Eye-Shaped Nebula

Melanie Hick | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK Tech

The beautiful eye-shaped nebula is a cloud of faint green gas that Hubble scientists believe made up almost half of the star's mass for most of its li...

Cameron Wanted To Shut Down Internet During Riots

Telegraph | Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK Tech

David Cameron wanted to shut down internet services during the riots this summer, it has emerged, but the Foreign Secretary cautioned a blackout would...

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Hague: Governments Must Not Censor Internet, Full Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK Tech

William Hague today delivered an attack on countries that censor the internet at a cyber security conference in London. The foreign secretary's spe...