United Kingdom Stories for 2010

Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? 571
World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought 338
Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair 59
London Neighborhood Tops Both "Healthy" and Binge Drinking Lists 3
London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day 280
UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication 162
'Eternal' Solar Plane Stays Two Weeks Aloft 37
British ISPs Respond On Filtering 163
UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default 642
Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility 112
UK Copyright Blackmailers Rebuked By Court 64
Chevron Got North Sea Contract Despite IT Safety Crashes 89
Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London 1060
Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet 431
British Aircraft Carrier For Sale On Auction Site 224
Cambridge Computer IDs World's Most Boring Day 186
Rights Groups Slam UK Government for RIPA changes 43
iRacing World Champion Gets a Shot At the Real Thing 168
UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout 606
UK Police To Get Major New Powers To Seize Domains 161
British MP Calls For Pornography 'Opt-In' 335
Botnet Spammer Gets Just 18 Months For Being Odd 83
Boy Finds £2.5M Gold Locket With Metal Detector 169
UK Law Body Targets RIAA-Style Settlement Letters 95
British Gov't Releases Spending Data 89
Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' 240
UK Seeks Stronger Partnership In Space Technology With India 47
Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete 177
Harry Potter Actor Sings the Elements Song 4
UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet 226
Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes 309
Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams 272
Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK 164
UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus' 213
Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum 66
Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back 158
Tetris May Reduce PTSD, But Pub Quiz Makes It Worse 65
UK Politician Arrested Over Twitter 'Stoning Joke' 422
UK Games Retailers Threaten Boycott of Steam Games 443
UK Terror Chief Blocked From Boarding Aircraft 237
Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites 113
Pee On Your Phone STD Test 208
Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed 114
UK Reviewing Copyright Laws 179
The Queen Joins Facebook 155
Americans Less Healthy, But Outlive Brits 521
UK Pressures the US To Takedown Extremist Videos 629
Man Dies of Caffeine Overdose 5
UK's National Rail Shuts Down Free Timetable App 145
Times Paywall In Questionable 'Success' 214
UK Police Get Guide to Arresting a Witch 1
UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online 158
Manchester's Self-Described 'Internet Troll' Jailed For Offensive Web Posts 321
British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence 122
British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests 335
LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux 452
All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England 347
UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls 286
UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water 191
Putting the Squeeze On Broadband Copper Robbers 282
Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down 725
Home WiFi Network Security Failings Exposed 161
UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter 66
Badgers Digging Up Ancient Human Remains 172
Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist 330
Dogs Can Be Pessimistic 99
Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes 373
UK Scientists Leave Labs To Protest Expected Cuts 315
Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves 130
Robot Controlled By Rat Brain 170
The Encryption Pioneer Who Was Written Out of History 238
New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch 214
BT Seeks Moratorium On Internet Piracy Cases 71
Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website 240
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Caught Pirating Each Other 131
British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law 121
UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality 225
UK ISPs Profit From Coughing Up Customer Data 59
Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff 413
UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details 315
UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats 200
Man Gets 12-Year Jail Sentence For Planting Child Porn On Enemy's Computer 448
UK Man Prevented From Finding Chipped Pet Under Data Protection Act 340
UK Goverment IT Chief Backs Open Source Suppliers 72
Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution 410
Two-Photon Walk a Giant Leap For Quantum Computing 112
Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband 298
UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs 255
UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email 555
£32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website 150
Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data 128
Tap Tech Brings Touch To Dumb Phones 70
UK's Royal Mail Launches First Intelligent Stamps 69
UK Music Industry Calls For Truce With Technology 209
The Last of the Punch Card Programmers 149
Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle 239
Court Bans Sandwiches Because They Could Be Thrown 4
New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory 284
Legal Threat Demands Techdirt Shut Down 346
'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines 426
Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900 139
UK ISP To Prioritize Gaming Traffic 196
Vodafone Backs Down In Row With Android Users 106
Four Men Go Bar-Hopping For 26 Years 1
MP Wants Official Email Address Kept Private 179
UK Switches Off £235M Child Database 198
Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle 83
Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes 383
Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic 615
Large Zeus Botnet Used For Financial Fraud 68
UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6 233
British ISPs Favour Well-Connected Customers 88
Churchill's Dentures Sold At Auction 0
UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal 254
The Story of Patrick 'Bomb Magnet' Hyde 1
UK ISP TalkTalk Caught Monitoring Its Customers 139
Microsoft Signs License With ARM 148
Digital Act Could Spur Creation of Pirate ISPs In UK 204
Obama Won't Intervene Over British Hacker McKinnon 268
Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? 423
UK Delays National Broadband For Three Years 140
Murdoch's UK Paywall a Miserable Failure 428
UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers 289
Microsoft Shows Off 'Milo' Virtual Human 270
Don't Stop File-Sharing, Says Former Pink Floyd Manager 243
Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students 279
Boeing, BAE Systems Show Off New Unmanned Planes 157
UK Designer Grows Clothes From Bacteria 93
After a Decade, Digital Radio Still an Also-Ran In UK 200
When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies 234
Major ISPs Challenge UK's Digital Economy Act 107
No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British 393
How To Build an Open Source House? 274
The Unstoppable 'Tech Support' Scam 312
Survey Says To UK — Repeal Laws of Thermodynamics 208
First Full-Sky Image From Planck Mission 56
'Robofish' Schools the Rest 57
Spectral Imaging Reveals Jefferson Nixed 'Subjects' for 'Citizens' 360
UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing 332
Boy Builds Wall-Climbing Machine Using Recycled Vacuums 96
In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable 349
Regular Domains Have More Malware Than Porn Sites 122
UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist 344
Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond 206
UK Video Game Tax Cuts Sabotaged? 123
UK Gov't To Review Hundreds of Websites, Axe Many of Them 92
WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband in UK 51
World's First Solar-Propelled Blimp To Cross English Channel 87
UK Video Game Tax Relief Cancelled 106
Young Shoplifters To Be Given Jobs In Shops 3
Schools, Filtering Companies Blocking Google SSL 308
"Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers 94
UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App 271
Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data 248
Spamhaus Fine Reduced From $11.7M To $27K 378
420,000 Scam E-mails Sent Every Hour In UK Alone 71
FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England 329
Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK 232
Open Data and a Critical Citizenry 50
O2 Scraps Unlimited Data Usage For Smartphones 272
Brick Shooting Shotgun Built From Lego By 15-Year-Old 70
College Offers Course in Wearing High Heels 31
British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War 275
America Versus the UFO Hacker 452
The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK 468
Plotting a Coup In the Internet Age 183
University Networks Block Student Project 167
UK Gov't Spending Details Now Online 56
Thumbprints Used To Check Books Out of School Library 355
UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range 192
Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy For UK ISPs 234
UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards 334
UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible 454
Recrafting Government As an Open Platform 233
Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus 393
British Man Becomes the First To Swim Under Mt. Everest 30
London's Mayor Promises London-Wide Wireless For 2012 Olympics 130
Men Cross 5 Mile Wide Lake In Inflatable Castle 17
In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition 349
Man Convicted For Driving Drunk In Toy Barbie Car 1
In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions 418
BT Gets Exclusive Rights To OnLive In the UK 128
Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels 663
UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects 205
UK Man Renames Himself "Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand" 13
Website Sells Pubic Lice 319
UK Election Arcana, Explained By Software 568
Google Resolves Gmail Name Dispute In UK 48
iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied 248
Couple Converts Public Toilet Into Home 3
The Fight to Remove Old "Home and Garden" Piece On Hitler 2
False Start For Cyber Security Challenge UK 18
IT Crowd (UK) Coming Back For Season 4 165
UK Docs Perform First Remote-Control Heart Surgery 142
UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It 179
How To Grow a Head 355
Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? 673
Former Nurse Charged With Aiding Suicides Via Web 168
Climate Researchers Fight Back 641
UK University Researchers Must Make Data Available 352
New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space 351
Rings From Woman's Amputated Arm Go Missing 11
Quantum Cryptography Now Fast Enough For Video 69
British Chiropractors Drop Case Against Simon Singh 182
Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul 262
DNA Cancer Codes Cracked By International Effort 106
Saturn's Strange Hexagon Recreated In the Lab 103
A Wireless Hotspot For Your Car — Why Not? 135
Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK 384
Stallman On the UK Digital Economy Bill 228
Stalker Jailed For Planting Child Porn On a PC 368
In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech 130
House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails 650
Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates 443
Newzbin Usenet Indexer Liable For Copyright Infringement 168
Newcastle Maker Faire 2010 27
Tiny Cube Drags Space Debris From Orbit 77
The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits 344
Could UK Tax Breaks Pave the Way For GTA London? 137
Balloon and Duct Tape Deliver Great Space Photos 238
UK Space Agency Launched 125
Tax-Free IT Repairs Proposed For the UK 102
Later School Start For Teenagers Brings Drop In Absenteeism 436
Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds 437
If ET Calls, Who Speaks For Humanity? 371
Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage 313
UK ID Cards Could Be Upgraded To Super ID Cards 197
Killer Convicted, Using Dog DNA Database 97
Berners-Lee Calls For Government Data Transparency 48
Nuclear Bunkers For Sale On eBay 7
Hospitals Ban Visitors From Sitting On Beds and Bringing Flowers 9
Jobcentre Apologizes For Anti-Jedi Discrimination 615
UK Internet Filtering Bill Watered Down 183
UK Intel Agency's Missing Laptops Might Contain Sensitive Data 51
CCTV In School Toilets 32
UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button 237
EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs 601
Law Prevents British Websites From Being Archived 107
DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK 208
Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control 721
BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services 246
UK Bill Would Outlaw Open Wi-Fi 250
Virgin Promises 100Mbps Connections To UK Homes 247
Space Exploration Needs Extraterrestrial Ethics 162
Web Heritage Could Be Lost 128
Simon Singh To Appeal In UK Court Today 213
NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee 507
Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force 311