UK Technology News

Watch 25,000 Christmas Lights Flash To The Theme Of Angry Birds

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.02.2012 | UK Tech

You know its Christmas when someone synchs their entire street's lights to the theme tune of everyone's favourite commuter game. Feel the rhythm o...

No Flash, No Mirrors: The New Nikon V1 Review

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.02.2012 | UK Tech

If you judge the quality of a camera by its weight, then the new mirrorless Nikon V1 is a high grade beast. The thing weighs about as much as five Ama...

Mario Kart 7 Review Round-Up

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.02.2012 | UK Tech

Super Mario is back, with Mario Kart 7. Who amongst you will put down Angry Birds and pick up the 'Kart? Here's what they're saying around the web....

Neon Night Surfing At Bondi Beach

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK Tech

Nevermind the sharks, or the fact that these Australians are celebrating summer while we freeze our bits off here in the UK, this is an excellent appl...

Siri Won't Find Abortion Clinics

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK Tech

In the UK Siri is a somewhat useless personal assistant which provides vaguely amusing answers to our purile questions. But in the US, Siri is tur...

Facebook 'Deceived' Users By Sharing Private Information

Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 01.12.2011 | UK Tech

Social networking giant Facebook was found to have “deceived” users by allowing their personal information to become public. Facebook was inves...

Crack The Code For A UK Spy Job

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK Tech

What do you make of this code? Can you see the solution already? Then most likely, you're already working as a spy for MI5 or MI6. If you're worki...

iDanger: Another iPhone 4 Explodes

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.12.2011 | UK Tech

Another iPhone 4 has exploded, this time in Brazil. An iPhone plugged in to charge overnight began emitting smoke and sparks, according to the Bra...

Spotify Announces New Platform

Melanie Hick | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK Tech

Spotify will open up its API to app developers, meaning the music streaming service can now be built into a huge range of apps. CEO Daniel Ek say...

Watch Mark Twain's Google Doodle

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK Tech

To honour Mark Twain's 176th birthday, Google.com has displayed a panoramic scene featuring The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, painting a picket fence with...

Watch Astronauts Play Baseball On International Space Station

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK Tech

It gets lonely in space, so as could be expected, astronauts end up playing with themselves. Satoshi Furukawa's one man baseball game on the internati...

WATCH - Nokia Lumia And DeadMau5 Illuminate Millbank Tower London

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK Tech

Nokia and deadmau5 illuminated the banks of the River Thames in London this week, with a sound and light show to launch the new Nokia Lumia phones. ...

Scottish Clans App Plus Five Great Scots Apps For St Andrews Day

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 30.11.2011 | UK Tech

You might have a drop of Scotland in your blood, but now you can have it in your pocket, with a new Scottish clans app released in time for St Andrews...

Wi-Fi Laptops 'Kill' Sperm

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK Tech

If procreating is important to you, time to sit up and pay attention. Sperm is significantly damaged by just four hours of exposure to Wi-Fi on a lapt...

British Library Puts Historical Newspapers Online - VIDEO

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.01.2012 | UK Tech

Scandal, weird animals, political incompetence and strike. The list reads like a normal November day in 2011, but they're just some of the headlines c...

Osborne's Faster Broadband To Fight Budget Blues

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK Tech

Faster broadband in 10 cities across the UK, including London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast and a £5billion increase in infrastructure spe...

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HTC Sensation XL Review - A Contender For Professional Phone Of The Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK Tech

The first thing you notice about the HTC Sensation XL is the size. The slimline beast of a phone is XL by name, XL by nature. In fact, it's so lar...

Are They Taking The Piss? World's First Urine-Controlled Video Game - WATCH

Melanie Hick | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK Tech

A bar in London is taking the proverbial, and turning it into a videogame controller. The bar has installed triggers in the urinals of their mens ...

Google Doodles Marks Egyptian Elections

Melanie Hick | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK Tech

Google's doodle of the day today honours the Egyptian elections, the first time the Egyptian people have been able to vote since the overthrow of Pres...

Robotic Legs Get Stroke Victims On The Move - WATCH

Melanie Hick | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK Tech

The bionic woman is one step closer, quiet literally. LOPES, the therapeutic robot leg system is helping stroke victims to walk again. Scientists ...

iPhone 4S Self-Combusts On Australian Flight

Melanie Hick | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK Tech

Things can get pretty hot at altitude - just watch the antics on Pan Am, or ask anyone who's tried to join the mile high club. But there's steamy,...

Biggest Online Shopping Day Of The Year? Cyber Monday Tech Deals

Melanie Hick | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK Tech

Black Friday might sound American, but shoppers, Cyber Monday is here and it's very British. Cyber Monday coincides with the last pay day before C...

Games Charts: Which Battlefield Is Still UK's Favourite?

Melanie Hick | Posted 27.01.2012 | UK Tech

This week in the UK games charts, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has done what Black Ops couldn't - held onto the number one position for three weeks ...

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Can You Believe Which Tablet Won Trusted Reviews Gadget Of The Year?

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.12.2011 | UK Tech

For gadget lovers, 2011 will go down as the year of the tablet. But which big brand took out gadget of the year according to TrustedReviews? Beati...

Who Loves iPad? Cats Love iPad - WATCH

Melanie Hick | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK Tech

Pugs hate iPhone, but cats LOVE iPad. Here we have indisputable video evidence of the fact provided by YouTube. iPad cat is the most famous of fel...