Vodafone Connect: Broadband and home phone service launched to rival BT June 10, 2015 Vodafone is taking on BT's telecoms dominance with the launch of its own home phone and broadband service today. Read more: BT takes a shot at Sky with Champions League launch Vodafone Connect will offer new and existing customers in the UK broadband speeds of up to 76mb with "ultra-fast fibre", as it seeks to put itself [...]
“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls” – British Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt says men and women shouldn’t work together June 10, 2015 “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls,” British Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt said. "Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry." The 72 year-old won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [...]
Drunken monkeys: Chimpanzees are helping evolutionary scientists by getting drunk (lucky them) June 10, 2015 A group of wild chimpanzees getting drunk on palm wine are helping scientists understand more about evolution. Chimps in Guinea, west Africa, discovered they could extract alcohol – ranging in strength from 3.1 per cent to 6.9 per cent – from raffia palms that had been tapped by people. They used leaf sponges to [...]
Apple Pay in the UK: These are the retailers and restaurants signed up for the July launch June 9, 2015 Some of the UK's biggest retailers are lining up to start accepting Apple Pay when it launches in the UK next month. As well as being able to use your iPhone or Apple Watch to seamlessly glide through ticket barriers on the Tube, the Silicon Valley giant has its finger hovering over the button [...]
Startups in Soho and Clerkenwell rival those in Shoreditch and the City June 9, 2015 London startups are moving outside the Shoreditch bubble for their office space, new research has suggested, with Soho and Clerkenwell proving popular with tech firms just starting out. The area known for Silicon Roundabout and Tech City remains the most popular place for startups, but online searches for office space suggest that the majority of [...]
Everything we know about Apple’s new Spotify-killer: Seven reasons why Apple Music wins June 9, 2015 Tech giant Apple has finally gone and done it. Last night it revealed streaming service Apple Music. Here's why it's going to change the shape of the industry – and why it could end up killing off rivals like Spotify. * It launches really soon – June 30 – and will be available in [...]
Apple Pay at WWDC 2015: Commuters will be able to touch in and out of public transport using iPhones June 8, 2015 Commuters in London will soon be able to pay for travel on public transport by touching their iPhones at the barriers, tech giant Apple has revealed. Transport for London's director of customer experience, Shashi Verma, said: "With around one in ten of all contactless transactions in the UK now taking place on our transport services [...]
Talking behind people’s backs is the key to a long and healthy life, scientist claims June 8, 2015 Despite being frowned upon by society, gossiping is one of the best things you can do to improve your health. This was the message given earlier today by Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford University. He told an audience at Cheltenham Science Festival gossip is what “makes us human”, and that it [...]
The world is getting sick: Over 95 per cent of people have at least one health problem June 8, 2015 Nearly everyone in the world has at least one health problem and over a third have more than five, according to a study by the Global Burden of Disease. By looking at worldwide health changes between 1999 and 2013, the researchers revealed an alarming increase in the proportion of people with disabilities, with just one [...]
WWDC 2015: So what is Apple Cooking up now? June 7, 2015 Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference starts today, and it is a must watch for any fan of the brand It might be the shiny new gadgets and the “one last thing” moments that grab all the attention, but in terms of driving Apple forward, it is at the tech giant’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference [...]