HP is squaring up to Apple and its iTunes music store with a plan to offer an unlimited music service in Europe.

A Chinese-American team says it's settled the long-standing question of how bird flight began.

Ortery Technologies is now shipping what it claims is the world's first 3D scanner, bringing new realism to pictures of people's butts at the office party.

Bill Gates says a malaria vaccine could be as little as three years away, with a prototype entering final trials.

Hundreds of Australian websites faded to black today in protest at the government's proposed internet filter.

Entropy: it's a bugger, innit? One day, the universe and everything in it will run down and die, making all human endeavour utterly worthless.

Colling Ruffenach of icodeblog.com takes an Apple developers journey through the possibilities of Jobs' Tablet.

 If you’ve got oodles of time to waste on services like Twitter, it probably means you need a job, and guess what? Tweetdeck wants to help you find one.

You could be mistaken for thinking Hollywood has finally given up pretending that it actually uses sentient beings to make movies but, that's not the case. The BBC is airing the first film shot entirely by chimpanzees as part of a natural history documentary on January 27, 2010.

A mobile apps tracking firm known as Flurry Analytics has claimed that Apple recently tested 150 games on its overhyped tablet device. 

Serial iPhone jailbreaker George Hotz claims to have hacked Sony's Playstation 3 in just five short weeks.

After years of trying to come up with a half decent revenue model to justify its billions of dollars of “worth”, it seems Facebook is turning to agriculture to make some moolah. And when we say agriculture, we mean, of course, Farmville.

Google has updated its popular Chrome browser with support for at least 1,500 extensions and a long-awaited bookmark sync feature.

Security researchers at the volunteer-based Project Honey Pot warn that spammers will increase their efforts to ensnare hapless Facebook users in nefarious schemes.

Holy s***! Google’s Nexus One was apparently designed by a team of puritanical engineers determined to fulfill the now-tired mantra of “do no evil.”

AMD has debuted its $99 dual-core 3.2GHz Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition processor for overclockers.

The Chinese government has denied any involvement in the attacks on Gmail earlier this month.   A Chinese industry ministry spokesman said that claims that Beijing was behind the cyberattacks were "groundless".   "The accusation that the Chinese government participated in [any] cyber attack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless. We [are] firmly opposed to that [and] China's policy on internet safety is transparent and consistent," the spokesman  told China's Xinhua news agency.

Humans could run at 40 miles per hour, according to scientists, who reckon they have established the theoretical limits of running speed.

He says he's hoping to gain useful information about the stratosphere for future astronauts, but we suspect it's all just showing off.