Environment Agency to issue flood warnings to EE customers
Following a successful pilot, the Environment Agency’s Floodline Warnings Direct service is to be offered to EE mobile customers in low-lying parts of Yorkshire
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The British Museum uses Google Street View to boost online access to exhibits
The Google Cultural Institute has partnered with The British Museum to help make its collections accessible to people around the world
BDUK passing 8,900 homes for every million pounds spent
Government figures suggests the BDUK programme is delivering better value for money to the public as the roll-out continues
Track Your Heart with Your Phone, Even If Your Phone's in Your Bag
A smartphone may be able to measure your heart and breathing rates, even if you’re not directly touching it, researchers say. If you’re tired of wearable fitness trackers fighting for space on your wrist, it might not be a problem…
Get a Virtual-Reality Punch, Feel Real Impact
Researchers in Germany have developed technology for an armband that lets you feel impact from virtual interactions. Imagine playing a virtual-reality boxing game, complete with a menacing opponent aiming a haymaker at your head. You get your gloves up in…
Robot Makes Sure Stores Don’t Run Out of Doritos
A shelf-scanning bot called Tally will help make sure everything is in its place in supermarkets and other retail outlets. When customers can’t find a product on a shelf it’s an inconvenience. But by some estimates, it adds up to…
Using Virtual Reality to Save the White Rhino
There are four northern white rhinoceroses left in the world. Will a 360-degree documentary help us preserve them? In the basement of the San Diego Zoo’s laboratory complex sits a four-foot-tall, liquid nitrogen-cooled aluminium canister. This “Frozen Zoo,” as the…
To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
How one of the inventors of brain-computer interfaces ended up getting one himself. Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data. That was how one day he came to lie blissfully unconscious on an operating table…
Trade Pact Could Bar Governments From Auditing Source Code
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement could stop the government from auditing the source code of automakers and other companies. The post Trade Pact Could Bar Governments From Auditing Source Code appeared first on WIRED.
Spectre Proves James Bond Still Isn’t Obsolete
The 24th film in the Bond franchise wants to know: In this age of mass surveillance and oversharing, do we even need super spies? The post Spectre Proves James Bond Still Isn’t Obsolete appeared first on WIRED.