iPhone accounted for 20 percent of UK smartphone sales in December
Apple's iPhone 6 accounted for 20 percent of smartphone sales in the UK in December. This is the first time that Apple has a...
Jupiter moon Europa’s life-seeking mission gets green light
The White House has proposed NASA receives $18.5 billion in 2016, which includes $30 million towards a mission to determine whether there is life...
Google Project Tango, 3D scanning camera, is a step closer to being unveiled
Google is a step closer to unveiling its highly anticipated 3D scanning camera. The company announced that Project Tango, its 3D scanning camera, has...
One ton rodent with a bite like a tiger’s related to modern-day guinea pig
The largest fossil rodent ever found was an animal that weighed 1,000 kilograms, had huge front tusk-like teeth, and a bite as powerful as that...
Twitter rolling out “instant timeline”, hopes to boost rate of user growth
Twitter is rolling out a new feature called "instant timeline" which allows new users to instantly see a stream of content from the social network without...
Tesco rewards disastrous ex-bosses with £2.1m Golden Goodbyes
Tesco plc, the world’s second largest retailer, is rewarding two ex-bosses who were at the helm as the company rapidly lost market share and...
UK construction activity picks up in January, but outlook falls
UK construction activity accelerated in January after December’s low, according to Markit Economics. However, job creation fell to a 13-month **trough while construction companies’ assessment...
Doubling distance of optical fibre communications with new technique
British scientists have managed to double the distance optical fiber communications can travel error free by eliminating the interactions between optical channels. This could...
Graphene means semi-transparent, flexible electronics is a real prospect
Thanks to graphene - the strongest and thinnest material currently known in science - semi-transparent, flexible electronics may no longer be just science fiction,...
What is Dark Matter? New fundamental particle may help
Nobody knows what Dark Matter is, even though 85% of the Universe’s mass is thought to be made up of it. Researchers from the...