Science and Technology

The Banque Postale has become the first bank in France to offer voice security technology to secure transactions.

 I would like UK TV in my holiday home in France. What is the easiest way to do this?

Telecoms giant Orange has been accused of deliberately running down the landline network in a bid to push people from cheap ADSL broadband towards faster and more expensive fibre optic cabling.

A French company has developed a vending machine which accepts those 1, 2 and 5 centime coins – known as pièces rouges - which we all collect but which seem to have no value. 

It was not a very subtle April Fool but it made a fine point. 
A Christian website posted a story saying Google had updated its translation software for believers so anyone “speaking in tongues” could have a translation done in the language of their choice.

A homeless charity has transformed the lives of thousands of street sleepers... by handing out free radios to fight loneliness and isolation.

The main thrust for now is not necessarily to live longer but to live better; to decrease the period of bad health and frailty to a minimum amount.
Biologist Oliver Bischof

Why spend money cooling giant computer servers when it can give residents hot water instead?

Sea Bubbles are a French invention and will be tested on the River Seine

Orange has been obliged to repay an internet customer more than €700 for bills he racked up unknowingly because he was automatically subscribed to its services Contact+ and Internet+.

Wifi is dead ... Long live lifi

Paris resident requests the use of anti-urine paint throughout the capital.

The French island off the coast of Canada is thought to hold the key to the mystery of a vanishing plane

Award-winning Nataliya Kosmyna hopes her success will inspire more women to work in the sciences

Breton towns to test internet replacement for the old telephone exchange - but rural areas may face problems

Three million people sign up for spam opt-out service but cold calls continue

A hospital in Marseille is using virtual reality headsets to treat conditions like phobias and anxiety.

Year-long experiment in heart of capital of Auvergne Rhone-Alpes is world's first long-term public trial of driverless vehicles

A NEW ultra-small and cheaper speed camera is being tested by police that could revolutionise the hunt for dangerous drivers – and not just those breaking the speed limit but those drinking while driving, using mobiles or driving without a seat belt.

While France headed for the beach last month scientists from Grenoble University were 4,260m up Mont Blanc in a race against time to remove a giant ice core which contains a unique centuries- long environmental record.