31st December 2011 Archive
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Jonathan Ive is knighted in New Year Honours list
Arise, Sir Jonathan of Chingford
Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive has been appointed a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. Ive said he was "both humbled and sincerely grateful" for the award for services to design, and said the news was "absolutely thrilling." He told the BBC: "I am keenly aware that I …
Public Sector 31 Dec 02:08
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Explicit pics of glorious rounded globes snapped in festive Saturnalia
Curvy beauties moon for the camera
While most of us were hanging up gaudy decorations on Christmas trees, or knocking over festive ornaments in festive befuddlement, space boffins were busy processing photos of our solar system's own gigantic baubles. NASA's Cassini probe has been busy snapping images of Saturn and its moons, highlighting the scale and beauty …
Space 31 Dec 10:00
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Next-generation materials for post-Christmas repairs: Reg investigates
Stuff of the Gods comes to aid tearful tots, hungover dads
Toys break, normally within a few days of Christmas, so most parents keep a tube of glue alongside the traditional Christmas battery selection, but that's old hat now. The with-it dad is packing flexible polymer, these days. Having torn the paper from colourful blocks of plastic found under the Christmas tree children move on …
Bootnotes 31 Dec 11:00
