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The European Commission has given the UK Government the go ahead to offer EDF a guaranteed price per unit of electricity generated for a 35-year period for the purpose of incentivising investment. Ever since it was first proposed in October 2013, the proposed deal between the UK government and French nuclear power company EDF for the financing of a new nuclear plant has courted controversy.

BP has opened its first-ever UK centre dedicated to training and development via life-size simulators, augmented reality and 3D visualization capability. Offshore-Technology's Heidi Vella was invited to the centre to experience the centre first-hand. In July, BP opened the doors to its shiny-new Upstream Learning Centre built on spare land at its International Centre for Business and Technology (ICBT) in Sunbury-on-Thames.

Public cloud acceptance by the Enterprise means more not fewer challenges... Today in London Gartner held day one of its two day Data Centre, Infrastrucuture and Operations Management Summit. Here is what we learned this morning: 1) Public cloud acceptance by enterprise means more not fewer challenges 2) Asked if security breaches will slow public cloud adoption the consensus was that the answer was no.

Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project is a new natural gas liquefaction and export facility proposed to be constructed in Lelu Island near the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia (BC). The project is operated by Pacific NorthWest LNG, a consortium comprised of Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas 62%), Japan Petroleum Exploration Company (JAPEX 10%), PetroleumBRUNEI (3%), Indian Oil Corporation (10%) and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec 15%).

Norway-based Aptomar has partnered with several key industry players as part of a new research project to improve oil spill management via communication infrastructure and management systems.

Petronas Floating Liquefied Natural Gas - 2 (PFLNG - 2) Project involves the installation of a new FLNG facility at the deepwater Rotan Gas field located in Block H within the South China Sea, offshore Sabah.

Cloud to take up 90% of IoT data by 2020, says IDC. IDC's FutureScape report reveals the latest findings and predictions on the Internet of Things (IoT) between 2015 and 2020. CBR highlights 10 need-to-know predictions from the report's findings. 1.

Looking forward to next year, Intershop's innovation director reveals his predictions. What's going to happen in e-commerce in 2015? Lars Schickner, Director Innovation Lab, Intershop, shares his predictions with CBR. Omnichannel commerce remains a trend for 2015, and a challenge for retailers.

'Cross application' data sharing makes user vulnerable, says MWR InfoSecurity. Free mobile apps that use third-party advertising code are putting users in danger of being hacked, according to MWR InfoSecurity. The firm found that ad networks were inheriting the permissions of free apps, granting them access to the address books, text messages and emails of potential victims if the network was compromised by hackers.

Brand will re-launch in China following its acquisition by local vendor Lenovo. The Motorola brand will return to China, the company announced today on its official blog. Having previously withdrawn from the country in 2013 while under the ownership of Google, the mobile phone brand will re-launch there in early 2015 with three of its latest devices: the Moto X, Moto X Pro and Moto G.

Hype surrounding smartwatch exploited by cynical scammers. Hackers have jumped on the unveiling of the Apple Watch as a chance to phish for data through social networks, according to the security vendor Malwarebytes.

Net neutrality, women and data from the creator of the web. Since inventing the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee has been a tireless pioneer for internet rights, trying to extend his creation to as many people as possible across the globe.

Industry experts weigh in on all things cloud. CBR headed to this year's Cloud Expo at the Excel centre in London to ask those in the know their opinion regarding key topics in the world of cloud. "Disruption of most enterprises is no respecter of legacy and people that have been in the business for thirty years, a hundred years.

Interested in the open source OS but unsure what to try? Linux has always been the outsider's operating system. Even more hipster than Apple's iOS and completely off the radar of most Microsoft Windows users, the open source OS umbrella covers an ever increasing collection of mutations and flavours, known to its users as distros (short for distributions).

Internet of Things, broadband, renewable energy - the government is embracing technology and realising its economic potential. Between the jokes tailored to evoke the maximum jeering from backbenchers, Chancellor George Osborne delivered the 2015 Budget.

Supplying power to offshore platforms from land-based plants could have a major impact on the industry's carbon emissions. Norway is the world leader in the laying of subsea cables to power offshore facilities, but a recent disagreement over the electrification of the Utsira High region has sparked a new debate over how and where to make use of this promising technology.

From social media to mobile Wi-Fi, Google has most bases covered. Google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has become one of the most synonymous names in technology over the past 16 years. Starting off as a search engine pioneering the 'pagerank' method of retrieving results, Google has grown into many areas, six of which are detailed below.

The proliferation of wearable devices that connect to the Internet understandably has a great many people worried about the implications for security. Soon enough, hackers could have a direct line to anything from wristwatches to pacemakers, and the damage could be devastating. Here are the top five wearable threats which could have an impact on you.

Hybrid clouds combine a private cloud with a public cloud, alleviating data privacy worries from your company if sensitive or corporate data needs to be kept on premise, whilst placing less critical environments into public cloud. Hybrid clouds are also useful for scalability.