AS IT HAPPENS: Sandra Bullock kicks off awards season as she is named...
By George Stark | Kicking off awards season 2014 in hilarious style were 2 Broke Girls stars Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs at the The 40th Annual People’s Choice Awards. The ladies started things off...
View ArticleDirectors’ requests for ‘teardrop breasts’, ‘sexy nuns’ and ‘busty lab...
By Ruth Styles | Calls for ‘busty lab workers’, ‘sexy nuns’ and actresses who are ‘slim with teardrop breasts’ might sound distinctly 1970s in tone but, incredibly, they don’t come from vintage ads....
View ArticleTrainee guide dog saves choking woman’s life by knocking chocolate out of her...
By Kieran Corcoran | A heroic trainee guide dog saved a woman’s life by knocking a chocolate out of her throat while she was choking. Nell, just 17 months old, rescued Lesley Hailwood, 61, on New...
View ArticleThe bizarre $1300 one wheeled skateboard that claims to give you the...
By Mark Prigg | It’s not quite the hoverboard we all hoped to be riding by 2013, but a Silicon Valley firms has created the next best thing – a self balancing, one wheeled skateboard. Called the...
View ArticleFears over ‘two tier internet’ after appeals court rejects rules that all...
By Mark Prigg | Fears of a ‘premium internet’ where providers are forced to pay more for faster access were growing today after a U.S. appeals court rejected federal rules that required Internet...
View ArticleMassive trough deeper than the Grand Canyon found under the ice in Antarctica
By Mark Prigg | A massive ancient subglacial trough deeper than the Grand Canyon has been discovered under Antarctica. Part of a massive ancient mountain range, it was found buried under several km...
View ArticleEuropean Space Agency releases astonishing video showing how Rosetta probe...
By Ellie Zolfagharifard and Mark Prigg | The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed exactly how it hopes Rosetta probe will land on a comet later this year. The craft will perform a breathtaking...
View ArticleThe drone that lets anyone be a SPY: Pocket-sized aircraft lets people film...
By Mark Prigg | It is small enough to fit into a handbag, yet can give anyone the ability to spy from the air. The Pocket Drone this week smashed its funding target on Kickstarter. It can be...
View ArticleThe Aurora headband is real-life inception headband that lets you control...
By Mark Prigg | The Aurora smart headband contains lights and plays sounds that its maker says allows the wearer to influence their dreams. Software in the $175 band knows when you dream by measuring...
View ArticleThe Pocket Drone tricopter lets anyone be a SPY
By Mark Prigg | It is small enough to fit into a handbag, yet can give anyone the ability to spy from the air. The Pocket Drone this week smashed its funding target on Kickstarter. It can be...
View ArticleForget Glass, Google reveals the first smart Contact Len
By Mark Prigg | It may be best known for its interactive Glass specs, but Google today revealed a radical smart contact lens for diabetics. It analyses their tears, warning them if their glucose...
View ArticleStephen Sondheim sung into a satisfactory mush: Review of Putting It Together
By Quentin Letts | PUTTING IT TOGETHER (St James Theatre) Verdict: A Sondheim smorgasbord [reviewStars]Game old Janie Dee flings her armpits around to fairly good effect in an evening of Stephen...
View ArticleThe smart bed that can track your sleep
By Mark Prigg | It could finally end the morning rows over exactly how loudly, and how often your partner was snoring. A new gadget can turn any mattress into a ‘smart bed’ capable of analysing your...
View ArticleFacebook gets on trend: Launches topics section to compete with Twitter
By Mark Prigg | Facebook has launched a new trends section designed to tell users the site’s most popular topics of discussion. The new feature, which is being rolled out to all Facebook users, is...
View ArticleAS IT HAPPENS: Lupita Nyong’o and Jared Leto are left shocked after winning...
By Iona Kirby | The Screen Actors Guild honoured the finest performances in TV and film on Saturday. And things kicked off with a bang at the 20th annual SAG Awards, held in Los Angeles. The...
View ArticleNew ATM anti-fraud system uses colours, symbols and numbers
| If remembering your four digit PIN is confusing, things are about to get a lot worse. Researchers have unveiled a new, safer system using colours and symbols as well as numbers. They say it could...
View ArticleTeachers ‘are too poorly qualified’: Children’s education in maths and...
By Andrew Levy | Children’s education in is under threat in some subjects from teachers who fail to achieve top qualifications, an independent report has concluded. Barely half of trainee science and...
View ArticleCustomers’ fury over new cashpoint crash: Debit cards are left useless in...
By Claire Ellicott | Outrage: A quarter of TSB customers could not use their cards after two of the company’s seven servers failed Hundreds of thousands of customers were left unable to use debit...
View ArticleNew folding wheel car concept allows you to drive on normal roads or maglev...
By Mark Prigg | It is a concept car that really does deliver on the promise of being able to drive in the fast lane. Chinese designers have revealed their concept far a ‘fast track’ car that can drive...
View ArticleIs Facebook can making us MORE political:? Researchers find we take more...
By Mark Prigg | Facebook can boost our political leanings dramatically – and cause us to ignore friends we don’t agree with, researchers have claimed. A Georgia Institute of Technology study found...
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