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UK ISP and television provider Virgin Media has finally confirmed the details of its partnership with Sweden-based music streaming service Spotify, offering unlimited music streaming over broadband, mobile and TV starting at £4.99 per month. MusicAllyobtained details of the deal, which indicates Spotify streams will be streamed via Virgin Media customers televisions via the company’s new TiVO set-top box.Customers will be able to sign up for Spotify Unlimited for £4.99 a month and get Spotify Premium for £9....

Leading UK internet service provider Virgin Media hastoday announcedit is to begin testing new cable broadband connections that will support speeds of up to 1.5Gb, choosing to partner with four companies in and around Old Street, an area you might recognise as London’s Silicon Roundabout. The four companies will be able to enjoy 1.5Gb download and 150Mb upload speeds, which will be served via Virgin Media’s existing cable infrastructure and technology....

Virgin Orbit launched a rocket from a plane — here’s how Launching from a plane Usually, a rocket launched from a launch site on the ground will have two or three stages, which allow the rocket to shed weight as it uses up fuel. The first stage is the part that ignites at launch, powering the rocket from the ground. When the rocket reaches a certain altitude, the first stage then separates, leaving the second to ignite....

Richard Branson’s Virgin Group could soon be entering the “daily deals” space, launching a service that will compete with established deal sites including Groupon and LivingSocial and also Google’s new deal service, according toThe Financial Times. Tim Bradshaw reports that a former Virgin executive approached Virgin last year to use the company brand to position itself in the email-based coupon shopping service. Virgin would launch a deals service if it was able to secure external funding for the initiative – its former executive has been actively meeting with potential UK and US investors in recent months, hoping to launch the service later this year....

It takes seven months to get to Marsin an efficiently engineered spaceship, covering the distance of 480 million kilometers. On this journey, a crew would have to survive in a confined space with no opportunity to experience nature or interact with new people. It is easy to imagine how this much isolation could have a severe impact on the crew’s well-being and productivity. The challenges long-duration space travellers experience are not foreign to regular folk, although to a lesser degree....