Telefonica to put Europe at heart of tech innovation
The parent company of O2 is hoping to nurture and develop technological innovation in the UK and Europe by extending its Wayra programme to London
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Mu folding three-pin plug goes on sale
The Mu power plug, which swivels the live and neutral pins out of the way to save space, is now available for pre-order after a design prototype was turned into an adapter for USB-chargeable devices
ESA gives green light to Skylon spaceplane
There are no major barriers to the development of the UK Space Agency's Skylon spaceplane and the new Sabre engine that drives it, the European Space Agency has said in an assessment
NXP GreenChip connects light bulbs to the internet
The semiconductor company has launched two different versions of its IP-enabled smart lighting chipset designed for compact fluorescent or LED lights, each remotely controllable from any internet-connected device
Darpa crowd-sources anti-submarine tactics
The military agency has posted a simulation game featuring an underwater anti-submarine, in the hopes of gathering data on the best moves to make when hunting enemy vessels
Unmanned AUVs find Air France wreckage
A team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has found the remains of France Air flight 447, using a Remus 6000 underwater search vehicle
Cern hopes for proof of extra dimensions in 2011
Scientists have said that data collected by colliding particles in the Large Hadron Collider could lead to proof of extra dimensions and the existence of the Higgs Boson by the end of next year
SAS talks sentiment analytics and data limits
Deciding which data to keep and which to throw away is one of the biggest problems facing Radhika Kulkarni, vice president of analytics R&D at SAS
IBM and EU ally on solving e-services jigsaw
A European consortium led by IBM will develop a business process model to simplify the management of e-services from different sources, with the promise of saving time and money