Tech and Auto

The UK’s first trials of an autonomous CargoPod vehicle which delivers shopping to customers have taken place around the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The TRL-led GATEway Project together with Ocado Technology saw a self-driving delivery vehicle, called CargoPod, operating in a residential environment, delivering grocery orders to over one hundred customers. Taking place in the UK Smart Mobility Living Lab, the aim was to demonstrate the use of autonomous vehicles for ‘last mile’ deliveries and mobility, seamlessly connecting existing distribution...

Millions of people are at serious risk of been hacked and don’t know it – with fitness trackers, smart TVs and even children’s toys among the most vulnerable items, according to research. The full extent to which unscrupulous individuals can invade people’s privacy - and their home lives - through a few clicks of the mouse was revealed following a survey of 2,000 UK smart device owners. A third of respondents admit they have no idea if their smart tech is...

Britain's biggest-ever warship, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, made its maiden voyage last night at low tide. The 65,000-tonne giant, which cost £3.5 billion, will be the flagship of the Royal Navy equipped with 36 multi-tole Lightning II stealth fighters. Work on the carrier began in 2009 and has been dogged by delays and overruns in cost. But yesterday she inched out of her tight dockyard for the first time to begin a series of open water trials. The ship had just...

Ever since NASA's establishment in 1958, it has been more than a space research organization. From artificial limbs to freeze dried food, NASA has added a number of remarkable inventions to its kitty. In fact, some of the coolest technologies which we are using in our day to day lives are all courtesy NASA. Let us take for instance the spacecraft Juno that NASA launched to Jupiter, that too, entirely on solar power. Juno is the first spacecraft that has gone this far from...

An outraged spectator dialled 999 today - to complain that the Queen was not wearing a seatbelt. The un-named member of the public dialled the emergency number after watching the Queen and Prince Charles from the Palace of Westminster on TV. The caller complained to West Yorkshire Police that neither the reigning monarch or her son were wearing seat restraints as they travelled in a Royal Bentley. The news coincides with new research that finds one in four motorists have...

With the regular introduction of new mobile technology, you’ll probably end up replacing your smartphone every couple of years. But even the most cutting-edge designs can be upstaged by a cheaper model with the right accessories, which tend to perform two purposes: functionality and statement. Cover/Case Personalized cover designs are increasingly popular, whether you’re looking at a bunny-eared option or a branded cover to promote yourself or your interests. But the cover also performs a very important function in protecting...

This is the moment a driver had his car written off in a dramatic crash – an £80,000 PORSCHE. The crash involved four different vehicles – including a silver Porsche 911 that belonged to Steven Parr, 34 – at 1pm on June 10 (Sat). Mr Parr described the sports car as his “pride and joy” after it was destroyed on Pasture Road in Stapleford, Nottingham. Walking over to the wrecked red Ford Ka, he tells the young male driver: "You...

Diamond hunters will be searching for valuable gems at 140 metres below sea level in this state-of-the-art £122 million trawler. With Namibia's land supply of diamonds expected to run out within 15 years, De Beers and the Namibian Government are moving more and more into offshore exploration. They have now inaugurated the mv SS Nujoma - a 12,000 tonne, 113 metre long vessel described as the world's largest and most advanced diamond exploration and sampling vessel. It uses unique technology...

Printing can be traced back thousands of years, with first recordings reportedly in 3000BC. It depends what you consider printing to be, as print can either be defined as quite literally a mark printed onto a surface, or a text or picture created by a printing process. However, you can see a timeline of the chronological order of how the printing industry has developed here. We’ll be looking over the printing that has changed history, starting with woodblock printing. We...