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“The ring-shaped machine on Loch Ness is one tenth of the size of the device that could eventually be generating electricity on a commercial scale.”
“Full-scale machines could be deployed in the sea around Orkney and Shetland following further tests in 2012.”
“In 2008, AWS Ocean Energy said it had set its sights on winning the world's largest prize for marine energy innovation.”
“As part of the restoration work, they were able to take X-rays using a mobile device.”
“Statistics suggest that approximately 12% of all websites offer pornography of one sort or another”
“and that 70% of men under 24 browse these sites”
“More than 90% of the 35,000 pornographic domains analysed in the study were free sites”
“About 3.23% of these sites were booby-trapped with adware, spyware and viruses”
“Analysis of the 49,000 visitors sent to their sample sites showed that 20,000 were using a computer and browser combination that was vulnerable to at least one known exploit”
“The researchers presented their results at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security held at Harvard from 7-8 June”
“Traffic Wales, the assembly government's traffic management service, said it monitored seven CCTV cameras on the second Severn crossing.”
“A new e-petitions system will be launched later in 2010.”
“As part of the reconstruction, a 30ft by 30ft section of the bow will be built to scale next week at the Graving Dock in Belfast,”
“Harbour seals may be able to detect fish up to 100m (328ft) away using only their whiskers, say scientists.”
“The seal was able sense and indicate the direction in which the fin travelled up to 35 seconds after the movement had stopped.”
“The trail left by the first seal was two metres wide, and the second, following seal was able to stay right in the middle of it, so it seems they can analyse the internal structure of a trail.”
“Throughout the ordeal, the three kept in touch with a series of telephone calls, each lasting less than a minute to save the battery on David and Brian's mobile phone.”
“All new and upgrading customers will have their usage capped at between 500 Megabytes (MB) and one gigabyte (GB) depending on their monthly tariff.”
“O2 has said that the changes will affect just 3% of its 21m customers, who will have to pay additional charges for their data use.”
“"That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of O2's network," said Mr Wood.”
“Currently, he said, O2 was spending around £1m a day to upgrade its network to cope with the "exponential demand" for data on smartphones.”
“The new charges will be brought in on 24 June, to coincide with the launch of the iPhone 4.”
“The network's cheapest tariff will cost £25 per month for two years and will allow a user to download 500MB per month.”
“After that, it will cost £5 for every additional 500 megabytes of data consumed.”
“O2 said that 500MB is two and a half times the average O2 customer's current use and would allow someone to browse 5,000 standard web pages.”
“The most expensive tariff - at £60 per month - allows users to download 1GB.”
“"That's a dangerous game to play, if that top 3% of users go to another network," he said.”
“That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of O2's network, said Mr Wood.”
“O2 currently has the largest installed base of iPhone users in the UK.”
“O2's CEO Ronan Dunne sad the move laid 'the foundation for a sustainable data experience for all customers'.”
“O2 had become the industry poster-child of the capacity crunch era,' said Thomas Wehmeier, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media.”
“BP says a containment cap system placed on the blown-out well last week collected 15,800 barrels of oil on Wednesday - slightly up on the 15,010 barrels collected in the previous 24-hour period.”
“"Securexam Remote Proctor enables schools, corporate training, and testing organisations to administer computer-based tests anywhere, anytime, while still maintaining the same exam room integrity as that found in a proctored testing centre…”
“The three shortlisted entries were all vying for the world's biggest technology prize, which is awarded every other year by Finland's Technology Academy.”
“"The constraint of solar energy has traditionally been its price. 'Gratzel cells' provide a more affordable way of harnessing solar energy," said Dr Ainomaija Haarla, President of Technology Academy Finland.”
“Professor Gratzel said that the €800,000 prize would benefit his research and go back into science.”
“Professor Sir Richard Friend of the University of Cambridge invented organic Light Emitting Diodes, which Finland's Technology Academy said was 'a crucial milestone in plastic electronics'.”
“And Professor Stephen Furber of Manchester University is the principal designer of the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, an innovation found in gadgets ranging from Apple's iPhone to Microsoft's Zune.”
“It said: "The ingeniously designed processor enabled the development of cheap, powerful handheld, battery-operated devices".”
“Previous winners of the prize have included Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is widely credited as having invented the web, and Professor Shuji Nakamura, who invented blue and white Light Emitting Diodes.”
“Ninety-six radio antennae have been installed at the Chilbolton Observatory”
“A further 5,000 antennae are set to be positioned across Europe”
“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has created a $10m (£7m) fund for mobile banking services in the country.”
“The first one to launch a service which meets certain targets in the next six months will get $2.5m, and a second firm will receive $1.5m.”
“Another $6m will be awarded to the firm or firms that process the first five million transactions.”
“The Foundation hopes at least one million Haitians will take up services in the first two years.”
“Manufacture a series of 30cm custom plugs, each tapered at the front like a bullet. Each plug must have the same diameter as the inner diameter of the tube (minus 2mm to prevent jamming on the way in). However, along the sides of the plugs…”
“It is designed to test the skin for alcohol every half hour by sampling a person's perspiration.”
“So far we don't see any impact on space and aeronautics,”
“Some 120m euros are being invested in the centre.”
“When it does go ahead, the part-Russian, part South Korean rocket will launch a 91kg (200lb) test satellite called the Science and Technology Satellite 2B (STSAT 2B).”
“The rocket stands 33m (108ft) tall.”
“When the Pentagon document was leaked, the site stated that none of its sources had ever knowingly been exposed.”
“Mr Assange said these were deliberately located in jurisdictions - such as Sweden - that could prosecute Wikileaks if it revealed a source.”
“He added that it was "a scandal" that nearly three million households cannot access even this speed.”
“Despite criticising Labour's commitment to providing a minimum 2Mbps speed to all UK homes, the current government will honour it, using some of the digital switchover underspend to fund it.”
“The UK is currently ranked 33rd in the world when it comes to broadband speeds, according to the OECD.”
“Details of these projects will be announced at an industry event in July and will be co-ordinated by Broadband Delivery UK, an organisation set up by the previous government.”
“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”
“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…”
