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Future homes will comprise underground greenhouses and pet-sitting robots, claims study
Connected underground greenhouses to grow food, robots to look after pets and children, and drones to call people in for meals - these are all predictions for future homes, claim experts. A new report predicts that click and deliver homes – where houses will be designed from the comfort of your sofa and craned onto…
The government wants 3G and 4G in the London Underground
Pretty much everyone can access free Wi-Fi in a lot of Underground stations, but it's not really the same as having full mobile signal available to you. The government seems to agree, and has revealed it wants 4G and 3G services to be brought to the entire underground network. Nothing is confirmed yet, but the government has…
150 London Underground station now offer Wi-Fi
Over the past two years Virgin Media has been rolling out Wi-Fi across London Underground stations that is free for mobile customers on Virgin, O2, Vodafone, Three, and EE. Now the rollout has hit a pretty big milestone, because 150 stations have glorious internet connectivity. There's still a long way to go to ensue that the…
Contactless card payments are now accepted on the London Underground
Until now if you wanted to travel on the London Underground, Overground, or DLR networks, you either had to have an Oyster Card, or you had to queue up and buy a ticket every time you wanted to travel. But as of today you can get through the barriers with a contactless credit or debit…
Three UK are bringing WiFi to London Underground.
If you are a resident of London or travel here quite frequently you will know that the Underground system has WiFi now, for most mobile operators. When I say 'most', I mean Virgin struck deals with O2, Vodafone and EE, but Three customers were left in the cold, until now. Three has now signed an…
No Mobile Signal on the Tube after all – London Underground shelves plans
A matter of weeks after Transport for London promised mobile signal in London's Tube networks, they have shelved the plans saying that they were too costly and difficult to execute... It's a sad day for those of us who dearly hoped we'd be able to send text messages while sitting on the Northern Line or…
Shiny Poll: Mobile signal comes to the London Underground – are you in favour?
The escalators may not always work - but your mobile phone soon will. Travellers on the London Underground will get mobile phone signal by 2012 thanks to an initiative by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. Huawei are putting in a systyem worth £100 million which should be up and running by the time of the 2012…
TFL destroys hopes of a mobile phone/Underground relationship
Just when you thought you'd be able to imperviously annoy fellow commuters down in the realms of the London Underground with your conversation about that night, TFL goes and ruins the party before it's even begun. For those who don't know the background - here's a bit of history. In March 2007, TFL decided to…
Elon Musk launches ‘pro-humanity’ AI startup, xAI
Elon Musk (above) has launched an artificial intelligence startup that will be “pro-humanity”, as he said the world needed to worry about the prospect of a “terminator future” in order to avoid the most apocalyptic AI scenarios. Musk said xAI would seek to build a system that would be safe because it was “maximally curious”…
ShinyShiny snippets: Amazon may have to pay UK shoppers £900m compensation
Amazon shoppers in the UK could receive a share of £900m in compensation, once a legal claim is submitted against the technology giant. The proposed claim alleges the company breached competition law and caused customers to pay higher prices. It is being led by consumer-rights champion Julie Hunter, who alleges independent sellers are excluded from…
