Tag: london
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Lose Yourself In Gigapixel images
Gigapixel images are mind-blowing when viewing anything with a lot of detail. Not just your standard amount of detail either. How does a full 360 degree image of Rome grab you? Gigapixel images are digital images made of one billion pixels. That’s an amazing 1000 times the information captured by a 1 megapixel digital camera.…
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Deliveroo Will Now Courier Alcohol To Your Door
Let’s get one thing out of the way before we kick this article off: Please drink responsibly. Okay great, now that’s done, here’s a great new way to get booze delivered to your door, from the amazing food delivery team known as Deliveroo. If you live in a somewhat affluent area with a nominal Yuppie…
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Amazon Launches One Hour Delivery Service in London
After priding itself on a second-to-none next day delivery service (at cost) Amazon has now gone one better – offering delivery on many items within the hour in a new service called Prime Now. Prime Now has been in action in five United States cities for a little while now and, after success over the…
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Virgin Readying £3b Broadband Investment
Super fast broadband hasn’t taken off as fast as we’d have liked in the UK. Indeed it’s mostly limited to large urban areas and through rather expensive packages, both of which have hampered the numbers of people getting on board with the high speed offerings from ISPs. However, Virgin, one of the biggest providers of…
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Lutz Pod Is UK’s First Self Driving Car
Self driving vehicles are set for testing in a number of cities in the UK, with the first tests of their kind going on in Milton Keynes, London, Coventry and Bristol. recently we’ve seen pictures of one of the vehicles that will be being tested, the Lutz pod. additionally some of the onboard hardware on…
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Virgin Media turns on its 150th Wifi Hub in London Underground
Virgin Media has confirmed that they have completed the rollout of its Free WiFi services to its 150th London Underground station today. With the company now offering free to use Wi-Fi on the Underground transport network in 150 connected Stations. Over the past few years, Virgin Media has been steadily enabling more Underground locations but…
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EE Launches 4G+ Data Network in London
City life just got a whole lot faster for folks in London as EE has just switched on its 4G+ data networking in the capital. The UK’s biggest mobile operator and one of the early networks to board the speeding 4G train announce today that EE customers in Central London will be the first to…
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London Study Says EE’s 3G The Worst
If you’re a regular commuter to London you might already know that EE doesn’t have the best performance with regards to 3G data connections as you head into the capital. Now a study by Global Wireless Solutions, a network testing company, has released a study into the wireless signal quality for commuters as they travel…
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Sony Selling PlayStation 4 Anniversary Edition for £19.94 – Only in London
After yesterday reporting that those beautiful PS4 20th Anniversary Edition consoles had started popping up on Ebay at ridiculously high prices we’ve gotten wind that for a limited time only those willing to travel to London can pick one up for just £19.94. Like 1994, get it? And yes, that’s less than twenty quid! The PlayStation ’94…
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Motorola to Launch the Moto E on May 13th press Event?
Motorola have sent out some press invites for a new launch event on the 13th or May where the company promises to show off a handset that is “Made to last. Priced for all.” Our first assumption lands on the recently leaked Motorola Moto E mid-ranged smartphone that surfaced last week in a Portuguese leak,…
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Gaming Weekly Eurogamer Special: What to play, see and our Xbox One and PS4 hands on review
This week we at Gadget Helpline have had the pleasure of visiting the Eurogamer Games Expo in Earls Court London, which is taking place from September 26th-29th and has some of the biggest games and consoles set to come our way over the next few months. We had a traipse around the Expo, tried our…
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Vodafone and O2 launch 4G networks today in London, Bradford and Leeds
August 29th isn’t normally a date we have to save, but apart from it being the date that Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern (albeit back in 1997!), today is officially the day that 4G in the UK gets real as both Vodafone and O2 launch their 4G networks today. However, August 29th may…