Cern bombards LHC grid with data
News Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern [03 Jul 2009]
Surrey, London and Peking get a yuan for spintronics
Blog Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping... [02 Jul 2009]
Topological insulator is hot new discovery
Blog Bismuth telluride. That’s the latest material to spark interest among the physicists in their search for exciting new things to do with electrons. Recent investigations using high energy X-rays at... [22 Jun 2009]
LHC restart pushed back again
News Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected [22 Jun 2009]
Reports of GPS' death are greatly exaggerated
Blog The latest GPS satellite is in trouble, which has triggered another round of the "Satnav is going to die!" rumours we had a couple of weeks ago. But it turns out that the satellite - GPS IIR-20(M)... [19 Jun 2009]
Ad tech developed that can tell men from women
News Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has produced a system that uses sophisticated algorithms to differentiate facial features [18 Jun 2009]
IBM probe detects an atom's charge 
Photo Researchers have come up with a probe that can tell whether a gold atom has a positive, negative or neutral charge, which could lead to new computing devices [15 Jun 2009]
Twitter ye not
Blog We’ve had the hype of celebs I can’t even be bothered to name helping raise the profile of Twitter, and now we’re getting the research that says Twitter ‘aint necessarily all it is cracked up to... [09 Jun 2009]
Spintronics - new physics just keeps pouring out
Blog Innovation, eh? Does it really mean just another smartphone with a slightly whizzier interface? Yet another x86 processor that makes servers go a bit faster? A search engine that throws up restful... [07 Jun 2009]
Swedes to unravel the secrets of solar storms
News In a large-scale study at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Uppsala University, physicists and IBM will churn gigabytes a second to learn the sun's dangerous secrets [05 Jun 2009]
Why Bing is not the Wave of the future
Leader If Microsoft is so powerful, why does it leave it to Google to innovate? [01 Jun 2009]
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the US National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nano-scale transistors [28 May 2009]
- Reducing Noise - Microtan
Revived LHC could run through the winter
News Cern's particle accelerator, currently undergoing repairs, could have its operation extended beyond its schedule despite high energy [27 May 2009]
Air-based battery promises 10 times the power 
Photo Researchers at the University of St Andrews see promise in new battery technology using air as a fuel and say it could provide 10 times more power for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops [21 May 2009]
Smart meters promised for UK homes by 2020
News Enabling the real-time transmission of gas and electricity meter readings to the utility means companies can save on manual checks and customers can manage consumption [12 May 2009]
TfL to test speed-limiting tech this summer
News A six-month trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaptation tech will start this summer, with the aim of exploring ways of reducing road deaths [12 May 2009]
SAP acquires carbon management firm
News The enterprise software giant has bought Clear Standards, a software business with tools for tracking and reporting a corporation's environmental impact [12 May 2009]
Medieval secrets behind Microsoft Research
Comment Microsoft will spend $9bn (£6bn) on research and development this year. What it will get in return is harder to quantify [11 May 2009]
- Rupert, a question if I may... - conz
- I absolutely agree - brudinie
Inside Microsoft Research UK 
Video Chris Bishop, chief research scientist, talks to ZDNet UK about turning blue-sky science into commercial products, and whether he has ever told Steve Ballmer he is wrong [08 May 2009]
Qualcomm exec offers glimpse of mobile future
News In a recent conference keynote, Qualcomm's Andrew Gilbert shared his insights on the mobile industry's future, including TV, banking and the 'internet of things' [07 May 2009]
Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair
News The last of the replacement magnets has been installed for a section of the LHC that suffered an electrical fault and helium leak last September [01 May 2009]
Tech investment would boost jobs, says LSE
News A London School of Economics report suggests that a £15bn investment in broadband, smart grid and intelligent transport technology could create 700,000 jobs [29 Apr 2009]
Chancellor promises emerging-tech investment
News In his budget speech, chancellor Alistair Darling promised more funding for emerging technologies, but the CBI has questioned the funding allocation [22 Apr 2009]
ZDNet.co.uk Scoops BBC on Techie Survival Training
Blog I like to work with BBC World News on in the background over here in Budapest. Working on your own is fine but you get used to noises of a busy(ish) editorial office so its nice to have some buzz... [16 Apr 2009]
Noise emitted by ears used for biometric recognition
News Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a system that can authenticate your identity by eliciting and listening to specific sounds emitted by your ear [15 Apr 2009]
'Flying' micro-robot developed by researchers
News Canadian researchers have developed a tiny flying robot which can be moved through three dimensions using electro-magnets [09 Apr 2009]
Face login experiments
Blog Quite a lot of notebooks have integrated cameras these days. The cameras are good for video conferencing and taking photos, and if accompanied by appropriate software, also for face login. ... [23 Mar 2009]
Packing 2GB in your finger
Blog News web sites are reporting the story of Finnish software developer Jerry Jalava. He lost part of a finger in a motorcycle accident and decided to give himself a USB keydrive-toting... [18 Mar 2009]
Apple headphone DRM - what are these people on?
Blog Sometimes, a chap just despairs. Take Apple's latest Shuffle iPod music playing thingy. As everyone on the planet now has at least five MP3 players, Apple has had to come up with various... [15 Mar 2009]
A new spin on battery technology
Blog Researchers at the Universties of Miami, Tokyo and Tohoku have discovered a new form of battery. Charged by the application of a very strong magnetic field, the Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ)... [12 Mar 2009]




