MITIE axes mechanical and electrical engineering arm
Outsourcing group MITIE will axe hundreds of jobs as it closes its mechanical and electrical engineering contracts arm.
Yahoo promises ‘not to screw up’ Tumblr
US tech giant Yahoo has confirmed that it has snapped up Tumblr in a $1.1bn deal as it promises “not to screw it up”.
Renewable heat incentives for households boosted
The Government has boosted the incentives for householders looking to install renewable heating systems.
Star Trek: real-world holodeck technology today
With a new Star Trek film due out this Summer, get ready for the regular slew of tenuous associations, philosophical and technological. Given that, let’s say upfront that the likely arrival of this concept, as just floated by chipmaker AMD, is years away.
AR for military, medical and education 
More than a techy fad or geeky fashion accessory, augmented reality could soon have a serious impact on the defence, medical and education industries.
Augmented reality peers out beyond Google's looking glass
Google's Glass project is synonymous with augmented reality, but the technology is already part of everyday life for many people.
An architect's impression of possible high-rise eco-city dwellings for China
A prime mover in the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, demonstrating in London recently
Artist Agne Kisonaite collected 5,000 lipsticks to make this sculpture, protesting against the waste of the non-recycled tubes
A mini version of Berlin's Brandenburg Airport, built from 100,000 Lego bricks by Legoland Discovery Centre Berlin
Electricians check an electricity pylon situated amid farmland in Chuzhou, China
Dutch nursery worker Thijs Glas checks hydrangea buds, sprayed with water to freeze them and protect them from night frosts
Architecture company Because We Can designed this "feline transport system" for its office cat to help keep it safe
The Pancake-omatic makes pancakes from eggs laid just minutes before. It took four design engineers more than 200 hours to construct
Anouk Wipprecht's Pseudomorph dress, with a neckpiece filled with 550ml of ink that decorates the dress when released
Deep Space Industries has announced a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft, utilising low-cost cubesat components, that will be launched into the solar system to hunt for resources to accelerate space development
The Hub01 modular and mobile student housing prototype, developed for KatHO Catholic University in Belgium
The concierge at the new Lego Hotel in Carlsbad, California. The three-storey, 250-room hotel will open in April
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Questions, Answers and Wonders: Summing Up Readers' Feedback
20 May 2013
It is a truism of course, but time does fly! It feels as if it was only yesterday that I asked you in this blog to share techno- names you have invented or may have come across; and only the day before yesterday that we invited E&T readers to fill tin he tenth - empty - square on our OneToTen England's Top Engineering Monuments spread, in which we reproduced the list of nine engineering marvels, as recently suggested by Visit England. Well, it could be the extremely cold spring in the UK that made the first four months of 2013 look like an extended Christmas period without days off. Yet the fact remains: both of the above mini-challenges were issued three months ago, so time has come to sum them up and announce the winners.
BT gives it away, YouTube charges: Part Two
17 May 2013
In part one of this blog, we looked at BT's Premier League 'giveaway'. This time, let's consider YouTube's decision to start charging for some of its content.
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Profile: Penny Gaines
Penny Gaines is chair of Stop HS2. In a former career she was a software analyst, before becoming a campaigner. She was an early adopter of the Internet and enthusiast for its potential to reduce travel.
HS2 is good for the national economy and will create jobs in the engineering and technology sector
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