Future Echoes – 24 November 2009

This weeks highlights include the 787 flying, soon, maybe. Those clumsy scientists at CERN getting their LHC back online. Murdoch selling himself to Bing and a potentially very serious story about bad science in climate research. Click the title to read in full.

Have we found a Google killer? (and does it matter?)

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Martin: This week we are looking at a couple of search engines that have recently had high profile launches. Are they any better than Google and if not, why bother with them?

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Will the computer as we know it vanish?

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Martin: We’ve all got used to seeing grey boxes, monitors, keyboards and mice on our desks. We got used to carry laptops (or notebooks) around with us that recreate the grey box in a portable format too. Over the next few years we aren’t going to see them as much. This doesn’t mean that we will be moving back to the dark ages and using pens and paper again, just that the computer will be transformed into something else.

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Martin: Unfortunately, Thomas has been ill this week so I will be talking to myself. I thought I would cover a couple of the recent tech stories that may or may not become big, both concerning Microsoft.

Zune HD – Microsft have announced their Zune Touch, oops I mean Zune HD. I don’t think they [Read More →]

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Future Echoes: 14 May 2009

Martin: Here are some of this weeks future news stories.

Eurofighter – The RAF are to order another batch of Eurofighter Typhoon jets. I think the days of large orders for jets like this are numbered now that UAV technology is so advanced. Why send a plane with a pilot on board, that is so last [Read More →]

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