The dream is over: Barak Obama's NASA budget proposal, due Monday, looks unlikely to make any provision for returning men to the moon.

Google has pledged to release a software patch that could help improve spotty 3G coverage on its flagship Nexus One smartphone.

The Chinese are no longer playing a game of whispers when it comes to mouthing off about Google’s smackdown two weeks ago, with the country’s media now openly dissing the Internet giant, and the US government too for good measure.

Hewlett Packard has crashed Apple’s noisy tablet party by offering a detailed glimpse of its own shiny Slate device on YouTube.

Think you know everything about the engimatic Apple tablet? Well, think again, because there is a lot you probably don't. And there a lot of people guessing the answers. Here's our roundup of the latest and greatest Apple tablet speculation.

Continental Europe, as every backpacker knows, aint cheap, and that includes its Android apps according to analytics outfit, Distimo, which found publishers in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Holland and Spain flogging their mobile wares for significantly more than their cheaper US, UK and Japanese counterparts.

Bioware's long-awaited Mass Effect 2 has received rave reviews from a number of prominent journalists, including Ben Kuchera of Ars Technia who described the game as "richly woven" and "utterly" fascinating.

The X86 processor market has begun to exhibit telltale signs of recovery from the devastating global economic recession.

Google has launched a mobile web version of its popular Voice application for the iPhone and Palm Web OS devices.

The New Scientist has an interesting take on the launch of Apple's by now very renowned tablet PC - it's pieced together a number of patents that suggest just what kind of a machine it is. Then we can add to the speculative mix all that stuff on Flurry yesterday about  the kind of applications that are likely to be used.

Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on their fears to the girls that they teach.

Men are insensitive bastards, according to a new study, which finds they feel much less guilt than women.

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.