X86 processor market limps towards recovery

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

Google snubs Apple with web-based iPhone Voice app

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

What's the Apple Tablet? It will be well designed

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.

Girls' fear of math is learned from their teachers

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

Men don't feel guilty enough

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

HP takes on iTunes with MusicStation store

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

Four-winged bird sheds light on origins of flight

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

Ortery launches 3D photocopier

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.

Gates says malaria vaccine could be here in three years

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

Aussie websites go dark in protest at web filter plan

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

The end of the world is nigher than thought

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.

Apple's tablet: a developers POV

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

Get a job, you twit!

 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.

World's first movies made entirely by chimpanzees

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.

Apple caught playing games on overhyped tablet

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 claims massive PS3 hack

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

Pay it with Facebook

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 polishes Chrome with 1,500 extensions

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

Facebook caught in spammers' phishing net

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 censors swear words

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.”