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“The nebula - which measures 1,000 light-years across”
“Trappist will join two other planet-hunting instruments at La Silla: known as Harps and Coralie.”
“Although based in Chile, the Trappist telescope will be operated from a control room in Belgium, 12,000km away.”
“The 0.6m fully-automated telescope will be based at the La Silla Observatory, on the outskirts of Chile's Atacama Desert.”
“The nebula - which measures 1,000 light-years across - owes its name to the arrangement of bright patches, which have been likened to the legs of a tarantula.”
“Seagate Technology is funding a£7.5m research centre A new £7.5m international research facility has been opened at Queen's University, Belfast. The facility, called ANSIN, has been funded by the computer company Seagate Technology, which…”
“"Twenty-five years ago," he said, "my music collection filled many shelves. Now I have 100 times more music and it fits in my pocket."”
“By the end of the decade, people will have the ability to carry a vast digital library of text, images, music and HD movies with them in the same way.”
“Seagate are also supporting a £1.7m collaborative research project at Queen's which is funding ten research posts at the university.”
“"ANSIN will initially be carrying out work for Seagate," Dr Allen said”
“In 1943, Captain Cousteau and the French engineer Emile Gagnan developed the aqualung, the breathing apparatus that first supplied oxygen to divers, allowing them to stay underwater for several hours.”
“30 megawatts”
“Half of it”
“It is putting in place 30 megawatts of generating capacity to ensure the lights stay on, and the broadcasting signal stays live.”
“Half of it is to go into a new type of low-emissions generators for the North American market”
“Television sales have already risen ahead of the tournament, partly on the back of well-timed discount deals, according to the British Retail Consortium.”
“The MacRobert Prize is awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering to recognise innovative ideas.”
“The £50,000 prize is split between four Inmarsat employees based at the firm's London headquarters...”
“The £50,000 prize is split between four Inmarsat employees based at the firm's London headquarters: Eugene Jilg, chief technology officer for Inmarsat; Marcus Vilaca, chief scientist; Franco Carnevale, director, space segment engineering; …”
“Inmarsat faced tough competition to win the award, which is co-ordinated each year by Britain's Royal Academy of Engineering.”
“The other shortlisted companies were Chas A Blatchford and Sons for the world's first self-aligning ankle-foot prosthesis; Cobham Technical Services for the Minehound dual sensor landmine detector; and Lucite International for its Alpha pr…”
“The revamped gadget has a stainless steel case, two cameras, improved display and is 24% thinner than the most recent version.”
“Other extras added to the phone include a gyroscope which, when coupled with the existing accelerometer and compass, gives it six-axis motion sensing.”
“Mr Jobs said the 570 wi‑fi hotspots in the room made it impossible to carry out some demos.”
“Mr Jobs said the 570 wi-fi hotspots in the room made it impossible to carry out some demos.”
“According to research firm Gartner, Apple's iPhone now has around 15% of the smartphone market, behind Blackberry and market-leader Symbian.”
“Google's Android operating system has around 10% followed by Microsoft's Window's mobile with around 7% market share.”
“The rise of Google Android over the last two years has been phenomenal and is allowing manufacturers to create appealing alternatives to the iPhone; critically at cheaper prices,”
“The 240-litre containers are equipped with a chip that identifies the address the bin belongs to and awards the home with points.”
“He explained that the researchers created a mechanism able to sense TNT-like molecules frequently used in explosives at extremely low concentrations - less than 10 parts per billion.”
“This sort of technique has been looked at in the past. But this is the first time researchers have used a polyfluorene plastic laser, said Dr Turnbull. This allows the detection of much lower concentrations of explosive vapours, he added.”
“It can be driven for 250 miles (400km) on a full tank of hydrogen and produces no emissions other than water vapour.”
“Adobe estimates that more than 95% of computers worldwide have Flash Player installed.”
“the number one reason Macs crash”
“version 10.1, which it said "does not appear to be vulnerable"”
“It doesn't really get any worse than a 'zero-day' vulnerability like this”
“There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against both Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat”
“Five roundabouts are being replaced with "intelligent" traffic lights that communicate with each other.”
“They said they decrypted it, but would not reveal who gave it to them.”
“The deal means that people who maintain profiles on Yahoo and Facebook can link the two pages and cross-pollinate both with one update. It will also mean that those who use Flickr, Yahoo Answers or the social site's video and music service…”
“For instance, Yahoo has struck a deal with social game giant Zynga which will see hugely popular titles such as Farmville and Mafia Wars work with its network. The games are due to be available in late 2010.”
“Four rural communities that struggle to get broadband - called "notspots" - are to get faster online access by the end of summer.”
“So far about 8,500 premises in Wales have since gone from notspot to broadband.”
“Fry, whose musings on micro-blogging site Twitter have attracted 1.5 million followers, announced the winner at the Hay Festival.”
“Organisers of the festival said the definition of the most beautiful tweet - a message no longer than 140 characters - fell into a number of different categories...”
“The Fermi nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Erie was shut down after high winds tore a side from one of the buildings.”
“In Michigan, the Fermi nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Erie was shut down after high winds tore a side from one of the buildings.”
“The county council project has seen 50 direction signs installed on 62 miles (100km) of paths.”
“Fifty stiles have also been replaced by gates to make paths more accessible for wheelchair and mobility scooter users.”
“Generators will partly run on bio-diesel”
“solar power will be used”
“Mariposa was made up of about 12.7 million computers.”
“The last 12 months have seen significant success in combating one of the main forms of cybercrime - botnets.”
“The first phase of the project is expected to take at least three years.”
“Ms Seymour estimated the cost to HP was in the tens of thousands but said it was a project that was worth being involved in.”
“Laura Seymour, from Hewlett-Packard, said her company contacted Bletchley Park in September 2009 after learning of its plight. The company donated a number of scanners and people to provide technical expertise to the charity.”
“American Airlines had just three such vehicles at Heathrow and the modifications would have taken seven hours and cost £1,000, the court heard.”
“Cambridge University Library said it wants to be a "digital library for the world" by putting its collection of more than seven million books online.”
“The first collections to be digitised will be entitled The Foundations of Faith and The Foundations of Science.”
“If successful, and following further funding, the collections of Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell, and Stephen Hawking could also be digitised, along with other major collections in the fields of humanities and social sciences.”
“Dr Hammel's team used the Hubble telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 to zoom in on the blemish near the Jupiter's southern pole and captured several sharp ultraviolet images.”
“This also shows that amateur astronomers now have the necessary high quality technology to capture such events that only last a few seconds.”
“Infosys meanwhile announced that it was setting up a "new facility" in Bangalore which would provide employment to nearly 20,000 engineers.”
“Digitisation of the records cost almost 4m euros and was carried out by the National Archives in partnership with Library and Archives Canada over the past five years.”
“up to 250 million global players logging on to various games each month.”
“Previous console Fifa games have retailed at around £30”
“The footballers making up each player's team are purchased in packs at a cost of £1 - £2 per pack.”
“the prototype garments were shown at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held in Montreal from 28 May - 3 June.”
“Hand-held computers are the latest tool being used by police to fight crime in Wiltshire in a £1m investment.”
“The force is the first in the UK to give the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to all operational officers.”
“And her 1.5 million followers on Twitter helped out again after her recent comments about touring.”
“160 wind turbines”
“The new building will be three times larger than the old theatre”
“Almost three times the size of the old theatre, the new building will have a 390 seat auditorium, a 150 seat studio theatre, a rehearsal room, extensive riverfront foyers and bar, backstage facilities and office accommodation.”
“Oxford-based businessman David Beesley has been driving one for six months.”
“Mr Beesley took delivery of his Mini-E in December 2009 as one of the so-called 'pioneers' who pay just over £300 per month to take part in BMW Group's electric motoring trial.”
“During sub-zero temperatures, the battery capacity dropped to a range of just 40 miles, compared with almost 100 miles during summer, he recalls.”
“BMW says it takes about three hours to charge the battery with a 30-amp fast-charger, which uses the same type of electric cable that electric cookers use, or eight hours when using an ordinary 13-amp socket.”
“I'm told it's about £3 for a full charge, but it never is a full charge because the battery is never actually empty, he says.”
“I now reckon my average journey is five to 10 miles.”
“Clearly, if you do 90 miles per day, then this is probably not the car for you, but how often do you drive more than 90 miles in one stretch?”
“I come home, I get out of the car and I plug it straight in. It takes about two or three seconds and it charges on low tariffs overnight.”
“Rather, he is furious because he will have to hand it back when the first part of the Mini-E trial comes to an end next week, on 11 June.”
“Mr Beesley took delivery of his Mini-E in December 2009”
“During sub-zero temperatures, the battery capacity dropped to a range of just 40 miles, compared with almost 100 miles during summer”
“BMW says it takes about three hours to charge the battery with a 30-amp fast-charger”
“or eight hours when using an ordinary 13-amp socket.”
“Clearly, if you do 90 miles per day, then this is probably not the car for you”
“I come home, I get out of the car and I plug it straight in. It takes about two or three seconds”
“80% of the skills at the Caithness site "overlapped" with those needed in the oil sector.”
“[Crowdsourcing] is an acknowledgment that 99 times out of a 100 the best person to solve a problem is an expert.”
“But one time out of a hundred the problem seems intractable.”
“Google had until the early hours of 27 May to hand over the data to Dr Caspar from the Hamburg Information Commissioner's office.”
“Google answered many of the Information Commissioner's questions in time for the 27 May deadline.”
“A consortium has unveiled plans to install a network of 700 electric car charging points across Yorkshire.”
“Electric cars have a range of around 100 miles - enough for most routine journeys to work, school and the shops.”
“Charging an electric car can take up to four hours, but the Yorkshire plan includes rapid-charge technology on main roads which cuts the time to 90 minutes.”
“CO2Sense said if its bid was successful it could start work by the end of 2010 and have much of the network operational within the year, when the first mass market electric cars are expected to be available.”
“and 'there have been two million hits on Twitter', the popular social network.”
“Facebook currently has nearly 500 million users.”
