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Photos: Motor Show showcases the future of car tech
Photo This is the new Ford Fiesta ECOnetic - due to be launched in the UK in October - which uses a small capacity engine and aerodynamic refinements to produce a relatively paltry 98g/km of CO2. Another concept car on show was Vauxhall's Flextreme... [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Photo Hallie can also be used as a search engine interface, calling up news items on Google associated with 'inflation', for instance. Networking company Cisco has been showing off some of the technologies it's working on in its R&D division - including... [16 Jul 2008]
Caption Competition: Feeling a bit green
Photo The winning caption, from reader Janet McKitterick was: "Scientists have worked out that you can run a car on Fairy Liquid and it cleans the engine too! This competition is now closed. Photo credit: James Martin/CNET News.com [11 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Each ambulance has a Mercedes Benz engine and costs about $40,000 compared to $140,000 in the US. [30 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1847. [12 May 2008]
Photos: India 999
Photo Each ambulance has a Mercedes Benz engine and costs about $40,000 compared to $140,000 in US. The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance... [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Pictured above is the counting mechanism of the Difference engine - in perfect symmetry prior to its first-ever usage. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo This is the Renault V8 engine Red Bull Racing has been using since the beginning of the 2007 season. The car is designed tightly around the engine and gearbox using powerful CAD applications. This is the headquarters of Red Bull Technology in... [10 Mar 2008]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo The Spitfire engine was developed here by previous occupants, Vickers. A global team of IBM developers have created an internal virtual world called Metaverse, which is based on GarageGames' Torque Game Engine. [07 Aug 2007]
Photos: The secrets of BT Labs
Photo It has also been used to help test Rolls-Royce engines - wrapped in copper to shield the cable from the intense heat - by checking the engine is making the right noise. To show off some of the gee-whizz stuff being dreamt up by eggheads in its labs... [02 Oct 2006]
Photos: How GNER's on-board wi-fi works
Photo We have to cut into the roof of the back engine of the train to fit it in. The server can just about be seen in the picture above, housed in the small bubble at the left hand side of the roof of the engine carriage. [27 Jul 2006]
