Sony Computer Entertainment has purchased the cloud gaming service Gaikai for $380m. The long-rumoured deal will see Sony build a new cloud gaming ...

Sony Computer Entertainment has purchased the cloud gaming service Gaikai for $380m. The long-rumoured deal will see Sony build a new cloud gaming ...

Apple has paid a Chinese company $60m over a dispute about who owns the name 'iPad' Court documents showed on Monday that Apple had agreed to the s...

Two drivers have broken a world record by hurling themselves around a real-life Hot Wheels 'Double Loop' stunt course at the X Games in Los Angeles. ...

The former leader of the hacking group known as TeaMp0isoN faces jail after pleading guilty to stealing Tony Blair's personal details from an aide's e...

Although not a hit with reviewers, Google's new Nexus Q media streamer has at least one secret feature which has people - and the device itself - talk...

A Reddit user who has spent every day of the last eight months posting photos of his roommate asleep has declared the 'end of an era' after the roomma...

A remarkable timelapse video of Earth from space has taken the web by storm. Tomislav Safundžić cut various clips by Nasa astronauts into the fil...

Mozilla, the foundation behind the open-source browser Firefox, have announced that several new carriers and handset makers are on board with its atte...

A screen made from the membrane of a soap bubble has become the world's thinnest display, researchers have said. The team including scientists at t...

Stephen Hawking recently gave a party - for time travellers. But while he told plenty of people about the date, sent out invitations and waited pat...

An American stunt man has carried the Olympic torch while flying past the National Space Centre wearing a jetpack. Eric Scott, famed for his exploits...

Twitter was asked 11 times by the UK government to deliver information about its users in the first half of January 2012, it has said. In 18% of oc...

A Twitter user has set up an account specifically to repost images of users' credit and debit cards. The account - @NeedADebitCard - has so far re...

There is now at least one place in the UK same-sex couples can be married: Facebook. The social network recently added the option for same-sex coup...

It's an open issue whether Apple's voice assistant Siri has gained mainstream adoption. The fact that Google has built a very Siri-like voice searc...

How To Make A Kid Shut Up About Plants Vs. Zombies...

Nasa has revealed the space capsule which it hopes will one day carry astronauts to the surface of Mars. The Orion space capsule might look like th...

Google has issued proposals to the European competition commissioner over concerns it abused its dominant position in search. But Google's response...

EU Rules Gamers Should Be Able To Resell Downloaded Games...

Scientists believe they have captured the elusive "God particle" that gives matter mass and holds the universe together. Researchers from the CMS a...

Scientists announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at Cern have slightly marred the most significant scientific advance in 40 years by ch...

The next generation of freeview has been unveiled - almost two years behind schedule. YouView, an online set-top box which includes apps, catch-up ...

The changes to F1 car design over the past 60 years or so have been vast. In fact, even over the past 16 months F1 cars have changed in ways that not ...

An ad-supported free mobile broadband service has launched in the UK for the first time. Samba mobile offers users cost-free 3G data for tablets a...