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A Cambridge University professor and one of Britain’s top ocean experts says that Arctic sea ice could melt away entirely by 2015, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Although the ice would reappear again every winter, its absence during the peak of summer would deprive polar bears of their summer hunting ground, which could put them at risk of extinction, said Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University. The vast mass of sea ice between northern Russia, Canada and Greenland waxes...
LONDON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedia® Affiliate Network (EAN) today announces a partnership with Telegraph Media Group (TMG) that will see EAN provide selected online content for The Telegraph's travel pages. Visitors to The Telegraph's travel pages will now have the ability to book hotel rooms directly through the website. With almost 140,000 hotels worldwide to choose from, customers can search the integrated TripAdvisor® ratings, Telegraph customers' reviews and the...
In an interview with the Telegraph on Sunday, the head of British microchip developer ARM touted his firm as the "most influential" company of its kind in the world, while dismissing U.S. based rival Intel as a "niche" player in the future of computing. In an interview with Technology Correspondent Christopher Williams, ARM Chief Executive Warren East said that his company's business model was the "best economic offering" and that Intel had been "very successful… but they've been very...
Facebook plans to build a new server farm on the outskirts of the Arctic Circle -- its first outside the US -- that will house all its computer servers and use as much energy as a small city, reports the Telegraph. Facebook confirmed Thursday that it picked the northern Swedish city of Lulea to host its data center partly because of the cold climate -- cool temperatures is a crucial component needed to keep the servers from overheating. It also chose the location because of access to...
The late Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and former CEO, introduced to the world the first iPod 10 years ago this week, changing how we listen to music and transforming the tech gadget giant forever. While the iPod was not the first mp3 player to hit the market, Apple was the first to get the technology correct, making a device that could hold a thousand songs and perform on a 10-hour rechargeable battery. Now, ten years later, the iPod has virtually replaced the mp3 player. “If ever...
Wilson Greatbatch, the inventor of the implantable pacemaker, died Tuesday at the age of 92, in Buffalo, New York. His cause of death is unknown, but family members report that his health had been intermittent. He was preceded in death by his wife, who died in January of this year and is survived by three sons and a daughter, another son predeceased him, the Telegraph reports. Greatbatch was not the inventor of the pacemaker or of the implantable pacemaker, he only improved on its design....
A Japanese language education firm is claiming that they have invented the first ever artificial intelligence "chat robot" designed solely to communicate with English language students, Danielle Demetriou of the Telegraph reported on Tuesday. According to Demetriou, these so-called "chatbots" were created by a company called SpeakGlobal. They can be accessed online, and use high-speech speech recognition software that allows them to speak directly to students, in real-time, the...
A 25-year-old British student used "considerable technical expertise" to repeatedly hack into Facebook's servers, legal experts testified at his trial, Andrew Hough and Christopher Williams of the Telegraph reported on Thursday. In what is being called one of the first cases of its kind in England, Glenn Steven Mangham of York is currently facing five charges, including an accusation that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program that would make it possible to...
Nearly twenty percent of British children have been the victim of cyber-bullying, with many victims saying the experience has damaged their confidence, mental health and school attendance, the Telegraph reported on Monday.Researchers at Anglia Ruskin University questioned 500 adolescents aged 11 to 19, and found that 18.4 percent had been subjected to cyber-bullying, in which a person torments or intimidates another via the Internet or a mobile phone.Girls were more affected than boys, with...
South African researchers are in the process of attaching satellite transmitters to young African penguins in an effort to track the endangered birds and perhaps one day discover a heretofore unknown breeding colony.According to the Telegraph, a total of five penguins are set to be part of the project, the first of which was released into the wild last month. The second--a six pound, 10 week old bird that goes by the name of Richie--was outfitted with a matchbox-sized transmitter on...
