Three new dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia: two giant, herbivorous sauropods and one carnivorous theropod, all from the mid-Cretaceous period.

Engineers are one step closer to developing an optical computer, following the successful creation of an optical transistor from a single molecule.

You have to ask whether they've really thought this through: using a giant robot rat to find disaster survivors. Victims might just decide to stay where they are.

Opinion: Let's imagine for a moment that we're in a strange parallel universe. Many things appear the same, but there are subtle differences. Today, for example, Microsoft launched the new version of its web browser, Internet Explorer 8…

By now we know that iPhone jailbreaking has become a popular challenge among a dedicated developer crowd and freeing the phone from Apple’s chains is a matter of “when”, not “if”. If you have the new iPhone 3GS, you can open up your phone now, less than month after the new model was announced.

Psystar, currently under legal fire by Apple and bankruptcy proceedings, is selling computers again, including a not so cheap Core i7 enthusiast system.

A survey of 2300 retail stores reveals that Apple has cleaned up in the smartphone market in Japan.

Sales of semiconductors worldwide rose by 5.4 percent in May, compared to the previous month.

Well, we knew about the ice caps, the coral reefs and the ozone layer - and now, apparently, climate change is making sheep shrink as well.

Search behemoth Google is under investigation as the US Justice Department probes its plan to publish the digitized contents of millions of books to see if it contravenes antitrust laws.

Dell is trying to appease Taiwanese consumers threatening legal action over a pricing mistake.

It's been stomped on by an elephant, dunked in mud and baked in an oven, so for once we're going to go with the PR hype and say, yes, it probably is the world's toughest mobile phone.