2014年12月29日 星期一

2014-12-30 U.K. Technology


USA TODAY
   
China Adds New Barrier To Gmail   
New York Times
BEIJING — The Chinese government appears to have blocked the ability of people in China to gain access to Google's email service through third-party email services like Apple Mail or Microsoft Outlook, which many Chinese and foreigners had been relying ...

Google's Gmail AND Search is being blocked in China   Daily Mail
UPDATE 2-Google's Gmail blocked in China   Reuters
China accused of preventing internet access to Gmail   The Times (subscription)
Irish Independent   
ABC Online   
New Zealand Herald   
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Fox News
   
Hacker claims you can steal fingerprints with only a camera   
CNET
fingerprint-photograph-chaos-computer-club.png In a YouTube video, Jan Krissler of the Chaos Computer Club demonstrates how he faked a fingerprint with just a digital camera and software. Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET. One hacker says he has ...

Researcher Steals Fingerprints Using Only a Camera   PC Magazine
Hackers claim they can reproduce fingerprints from people's photos   Daily Times
Hacker Clones Fingerprint from Photograph   Discovery News
Washington Post (blog)   
BBC News   
Mashable   
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Daily Mail
   
How exaggerating on Facebook can make you paranoid   
Daily Mail
To judge by their posts on Facebook, they are having the time of their lives. But almost two-thirds of social-media users lie to 'airbrush reality' and make their lives seem more interesting than they are, according to a revealing new survey. The findings have led ...

Told a fib on Facebook? You're not alone as research reveals people are ...   Mirror.co.uk
That jolly Facebook update may basically be 'indistinguishable' lie   Daily News & Analysis
Lying on Facebook leads to false memories   The Sentinel

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Metro
   
30 years on: First mobile phone weighed 11lbs and cost £4600   
Metro
It was the size of a breeze block, had 30 minutes of talk time and cost £1,650 – the equivalent of £4,600 in today's money. But the Vodafone VT1 Transportable was about as groundbreaking as air travel when it was unveiled 30 years ago. The first mobile ...

The battle behind Britain's first mobile phone call   Telegraph.co.uk
Watch reactions of children to the first mobile phone used in Britain in video   Daily Mail
How Ernie Wise (Almost) Made The UK's First Mobile Phone Call   Londonist
Mirror.co.uk   
Stuff.tv   
This is Money   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
War on speed should target miscreants only   
Telegraph.co.uk
Is Britain turning into a nation of speed demons? The number of speeding fines issued by the courts has risen to its highest level for four years – evidence, surely, that dangerous driving is on the rise. Except, of course, that it isn't. Far from taking our inspiration ...

Speeding fines in England and Wales hit four-year high   BBC News
Drivers see surge in speeding fines   Daily Mail
Increase in motorists caught speeding on Britain's roads   The Independent
The Guardian   
Metro   
Full-Time Whistle   
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Scottish Daily Record
   
Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion turns to petrol power   
Scottish Daily Record
THE first-ever petrol version of Volkswagen's Polo BlueMotion will cost from £14,730 when it hits the streets in March. Featuring the greenest petrol engine in the range, the newcomer is powered by a 1.0-litre BlueMotion TSI petrol unit emitting just 94g/km of ...

Order books open for first-ever petrol Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion   Western Morning News
Volkswagen's first petrol Bluemotion model on sale   Yahoo Cars UK
Volkswagen launches Polo GTI   Business Car Manager

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Crawley News
   
NAMED AND SHAMED: Sussex Police reveal names of another 15 suspected ...   
Crawley News
ANOTHER 15 motorists have been charged with offences after they were arrested as part of Sussex Police's Christmas crackdown on drink and drug-driving. Benjamin Freer, 21, was arrested at 2.30am on 24 December after officers stopped him in Marion ...

Crawley man charged with drink-driving on Christmas Eve   Crawley Observer
Pair arrested on Christmas Day for drink-driving   Eastbourne Herald

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Haverhill Echo
   
Don't drink and drive into the New Year   
Haverhill Echo
Police are urging drivers to make sure they can celebrate the New Year with a clear conscience – and not be tempted to drink and drive on the night. New Year's Eve (Wednesday 31st December) will see many people out partying to welcome in 2015.
Herts police warn of breathalyser checks on New Year's Eve to stop drink drivers   Hertfordshire Mercury
​Police warn New Year's Eve drivers in Cambridgeshire to avoid alcohol or they ...   Cambridge News

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RT
   
Plane with hybrid-electric engine takes to skies in test flight (VIDEO)   
RT
While for decades aeronautics researchers have been working on ways to make flying safer, they're now also trying to make air travel cleaner. A test flight of a hybrid-electric aircraft has been successfully completed in Britain. The step forward – or rather ...

Boeing hybrid electric aircraft completes successful trial run   Full-Time Whistle

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Firstpost
   
Twitter bug still causing chaos   
Herald Sun
SOME Android phone users are still struggling to tweet 18 hours after Twitter announced it had fixed the time warp bug which had Twitter jumping to 2015 a few days early. Echofon, the makers of a popular Twitter app, this morning apologised to its users who ...

Twitter error kicks Android app users out of their accounts, issue resolved   Economic Times
Twitter down: Network hit by more problems as Android users get locked out   The Independent
Time warp bug causes tweet chaos   NEWS.com.au
Sky News Australia   
Hindu Business Line   
Channel News Asia   
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