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Hewlett-Packard's Mark Hurd gets job offers after being ousted

(UK) Telegraph - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 21:37
Former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard headhunted less than two weeks after being pushed out of technology giant.

Apple iPad: Strikingly realistic portraits of celebrities created with £5 app

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 20:51

'Painted' on the iPad, these striking pictures of celebrities are the creation of young artist Kyle Lambert.

Medal of Honour: Video gamers put in role of Taliban

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 18:24

Creators Electronic Arts have designed the game's multiplayer mode so players can either do battle as insurgents or as part of the coalition forces.

Police crack criminal conspiracy to make millions from stolen iPhones

(UK) Telegraph - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 17:53
Police have shut down a global criminal conspiracy suspected of milking millions of pounds from stolen iPhones through premium phone lines.

Lullingstone Roman Villa treasures reveal it was once home to future Emperor

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 17:43

Experts have re-examined treasures found at Lullingstone Roman Villa and say it was almost certainly the home of Publius Helvius Pertinax.

Google says Facebook users 'will have to change names to escape cyber past'

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 17:15

The chief executive of Google said the enormous quantity of detail left online by young users could come back to haunt them when they apply for jobs in future.

Nine held over global iPhone scam

(UK) BBC News - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 16:21
Nine people are arrested over a global scam which made millions of pounds by using fraudulently bought mobiles to call premium phone lines.

Sony revamps PlayStation 3 lineup

(UK) BBC News - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 15:33
The electronics giant unveils two new models of its PlayStation 3 console at the Gamescom video games conference in Cologne.

Foursquare updates privacy settings ahead of Facebook event

(UK) Telegraph - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 14:39
Facebook expected to launch its own location-based service on the same day that Foursquare has offered users more personalised privacy controls

Google shows off in-browser gaming

(UK) Telegraph - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 13:52
Google has showcased Chrome's in-browser gaming capabilities at a technology event in Cologne

Google boss warns on social media

(UK) BBC News - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 12:52
Eric Schmidt says people will change their names to distance themselves from embarrassing content on the net.

Architect creates tiny clones for photo montages

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:49

An architect from Indonesia has created a series of photographs, that take up to a week each to make, of himself with mini-me-like characters.

Perseids meteor shower thrills star-gazers

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:49

Streaking down towards Stonehenge across the path of all the other stars in the sky, this shooting star is hurtling to Earth at 135,000 miles per hour.

DNA fingerprinting 'can sometimes give the wrong results'

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:49

The incredibly small amounts of DNA in samples and pressure to gain a conviction can lead to bias, according to an investigation by New Scientist.

Apple iPhone 4 engineering chief quits in wake of 'Antennagate'

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:49

Mark Papermaster, Apple's senior vice president of iPhone and iPod hardware engineering, is leaving the company, according to an Apple spokesman.

Submarine that looks like a great white, soars 12ft into the air then dives under waves

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:49

The Seabreacher X is the ultimate millionaire's boy-toy: a James Bond-style craft that can dive under water, roll from side to side and jump 12ft into the air.

Scientists discover new species of monkey in Amazon rain forest

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:48

The new variety of titi monkey, which has the scientific name Callicebus caquetensis, is the size of a cat and has greyish-brown hair.

India considers BlackBerry email ban

(UK) Telegraph - Technology - 18. August 2010 - 12:43
The Indian government is undecided as to whether it will allow Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, to continue operating its corporate email service in the country next month

Did global warming kill off the woolly mammoth?

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:23

Some 21,000 years ago warmer temperatures led to a loss of grassland over much of the Earth’s surface.

Ancient sea sponge fossils could push back existence of animal life by 90million years

(UK) Daily Mail - Science & Tech - 18. August 2010 - 12:16

The tiny fossils measuring up to one centimetre across lived in ocean reefs off south Australia and were discovered in rocks dated at between 640 and 650million years old.