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Met Office Release Image Showing Summer Impact On Britain
Met Office Release Image Showing Summer Impact On Britain Yes, I know it’s a cliche, but we do love to talk about the weather in Britain. It’s the simplest go-to for small talk and avoiding the possibility of discussing anything even mildly controversial with friends of strangers. For anyone not from the…
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Flat Earth Theorist Suggests Australia Is A Fake Country
Flat Earth Theory Suggests Australia Is A Fake Country I would freely admit that Britain has a bit of a questionable past when it comes to the Empire and the Colonies in the world. We are in Britain a little more tolerant these days, but a Flat Earth theory suggests…
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Images Of Proposed British Spaceport Revealed!
Images of Britains Proposed Spaceport Revealed If we are going to travel into space more regularly, which at the moment could be possible, then sooner or later countries are going to need their own spaceports. This is particularly relevant when based on the progress of some projects such as Elon Musk’s…
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Britain To Be Fully Mapped in 3D by 2020
Britain in 3D When Google Maps launched, it was certainly an ambitious task and once completed, particularly at the street view level, it was highly impressive. A new project, however, has been announced which is set to cover the entirety of Britain in a 3D map. Before the end of…
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Britain Achives First Day of Coal-Free Power in 135 Years
British culture has revolved heavily around coal for well over a 100 years, for better and for worse. The first coal power plant went live back in 1882, and since then, we’ve been relying on this dirty power source extensively. However, efforts have been made to move away from coal…
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Do Not Pay Bot Cancels Parking Tickets For Thousands
Remember all those sites you browse and get greeted by a chat bot asking if you want help or support while browsing the site. The chatbots more often than not don’t help out other than redirecting you to forums or sending back automated responses to your keywords. The Do Not…
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UK Needs Faster Internet Says Business Leaders Group
Buffering, downloading, pausing, even trying to make out the shapes on a low-resolution video have become common place for so many people as their internet speed caps out, normally before they are anywhere near their advertised (and purchased) speeds. It seems that we aren’t the only ones annoyed by this…
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Wales Has First ‘Energy Positive’ House in Britain
Wales has become home to Britain’s first ‘energy positive’ house, so-called because it can generate a surplus of electricity which its owner can then sell on. The three-bedroom detached property in Cenin, South Wales, cost £125,000 to build, according to its designers from Cardiff University. The house is lined with…
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Software Developer Wants to Turn Rehab into a Video Game
A Romanian software engineer by the name of Cosmin Mihaiu and his colleagues have demonstrated a new way patients can recover from injuries at TED Conference in Vancouver. He came up with the idea from an arm injury he suffered as a child and he believes that rehabilitation exercises can…
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Tim Cook: Apple Watch Can Be Used as Car Key Fob
Tim Cook is still on his unannounced international tour, today stopping in London. He paid a visit to the flagship Covent Garden store, meeting with employees and customers (some even posed for pictures, as you can see below). He also took the time to give an interview to The Telegraph, offering some…
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GCHQ Launches Kids Cryptography App
GCHQ, the Government Communications Headquarters of the UK, otherwise known as Britain’s NSA, has launched a an app targeted at kids with the intention of teaching them about cryptography. The organisation that spends most of its time circumventing encryption has decided to teach kids the basics of scrambling data from prying…
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Dyson Makes £1 Billion Investment in Future Tech
Dyson, the company best known for producing hi-tech vacuum cleaners, fans, heaters and hand driers, has announced that it is investing £1 Billion in “future technology”. This comes alongside an earlier £250 million investment in a new R&D expansion of their current headquarters in Wiltshire. That particular project is scheduled to bring…
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UK Police Trials The World’s Fastest Face Recognition System
Britain is dubbed the most watched country in the world, with over 6 million CCTV cameras watching everything that moves. This is why the London police aims to further improve its CCTV network use by adding body-worn cameras to help identify ‘criminal activities’ faster. The new technology is said to…
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The UK Plans to Build its First Spaceport by 2018
The United Kingdom is said to have planned its first spaceport to be built and be up-and-running by 2018, while Virgin Galactic is preparing to become the first company launching space-tourism flights from within the country. The British government is said to have planned an official announcement this Tuesday, where…
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