Eurocrats gang up on US firm

It is starting to look like Google's tax avoidance days might be coming to a close after France and Germany have joined the UK in demanding that the search engine start paying its share.

Apple loses the plot on accessories front

It appears that Apple's moves to take control of its accessories market moving from a 30-pin connector to the Lightning connector has backfired completely.

Tesla autopilot en route

Tesla’s next generation of electric cars might be getting an autopilot, courtesy of some clever Google tech. 

Hotmail is history

Microsoft has completed the move from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million accounts.

HiPerGator is Florida's most powerful supercomputer

The University of Florida has debuted the state’s most powerful supercomputer. According to university staff, the machine will help researchers formulate life-saving drugs, project decades-long weather forecasts and improve armor for troops.

Mark Hamill reflects on Return of the Jedi

So perhaps Return of the Jedi wasn’t the best of the original Star Wars trilogy, we all know that.

The worst (recent) superhero movies

It wasn’t that long ago that superhero movies were just dreadful, but the first X-Men and Spider-Man movies, not to mention the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, went a long way to change the dreary status quo.

Avatar 2 and 3 may shoot in 2014

So many people want to know when the next Avatar movies are due, but a James Cameron film never comes out until it’s good and ready.

Is chaos superior to order?

An international team of physicists, including researchers from the Universities of York and St. Andrews, has demonstrated that chaos can beat order - at least as far as light storage is concerned.

Tesla upgrades its flagship Model S EV

Tesla Motors recently unveiled some new options around its popular Model S electric sedan which could end up helping the vehicle get into the hands of even more would be drivers.

iMito QX1 is a quad-core Android TV stick with an external WiFi antenna

One of the biggest drawbacks to many of the Android-powered TV sticks currently on the market is poor Wi-Fi performance.

Putting planets in a petri dish with NASA's Spitzer

Our Milky Way galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun.

HERB robot discovers objects autonomously

A typical robot may struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. However, by taking advantage of all of the information available to it - such as an object's location, size, shape and even whether it can be lifted - a robot can continually discover and refine its understanding of objects.

Ming Mecca offers analog control of your digital world

A company known as Special Stage Systems has rolled out a rather interesting product that will be sure to appeal to hard-core gamers and hobbyists alike.

Stream video from mobile devices to your TV with PLAiR

There are literally hundreds of PCs-on a stick crowding the lucrative Android market, including the quad-core MK809 III quad-core which first tipped up last month.

Off-grid glowing plants may be coming to a street corner near you

Before the world was wired, the day began and ended with the sun. Work had to be done efficiently so that not a moment of precious daylight was wasted. Now, with easy access to electricity, we light up the night so that life goes on, even in the dark.

Report: Wind, not water, formed mysterious mound on Mars

A roughly 3.5-mile high Martian mound that some scientists suspect preserves evidence of a massive lake might actually have formed as a result of the Red Planet's famously dusty atmosphere.
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Seagate takes solid state drives head on

Seagate has unveiled its first solid state drive product line, featuring a range of SSD drives for the consumer and enterprise market, along with a PCIe card in tow.

Intel ready to do harm to ARM

Intel is finally starting to take the mobile market seriously, three years too late for anyone to care. The chipmaker has finally revealed its next generation Silvermont microarchitecture, and although it is late to the party, it looks like an impressive piece of tech.

Bill Gates thinks iPad is an iFad

While you were probably not expecting this, Software King of the World and sworn enemy of the mosquito, Sir William Gates the Third, says he does not like the iPad much.