Science & Technology
Motorola Mobility cuts 4,000 staff worldwide to return to profitability
Motorola Mobility is to cut 4,000 staff worldwide as part of efforts to return to profitability. The job losses are the equivalent of 20% of...
Google changes the way it calculates search results
Google has decided to change the way it calculates search results in an effort to make sure legal download websites appear higher than pirate...
Mark Zuckerberg topless picture leaked online
The internet is abuzz after pictures of Mark Zuckerberg emerged as we have never seen him before - topless and hanging out with a...
Perseid Meteors Shower 2012: spectacular sky show expected this weekend
The annual Perseid meteors are expected to put on a spectacular sky show this weekend. Glare from a waning crescent moon may interfere with viewing. But...
Wikipedia locks Mitt Romney page entries
The Wikipedia pages dedicated to US presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other members of the Republican Party who may run alongside him have been...
Texting Championship: Austin Weirschke wins US’s fastest texter title
Austin Weirschke, a teenager from Wisconsin, has out-tapped the competition to hold onto the title of being the US's fastest texter. Austin Weirschke, 17, beat...
Google Voice Search will now offer similar features to Apple’ Siri
Google is unveiling an enhanced version of Voice Search to its iPhone app that could rival Apple's inbuilt Siri software. Google announced on Wednesday that...
Pentagon supports worm warrior project Meshworm for a potential military use
US engineers have created Meshworm, a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body. The technique allows...
Pinterest stops invite-only policy
Image-based social networking service Pinterest has decided to relax its sign-up policy, opening the site to all. Previously, people needed invites to become members and...
Curiosity rover makes first color panorama on Mars
Curiosity rover has returned its first 360-degree color panorama from the surface of Mars. The robot used its wideangle science camera placed high up on...
Google to pay record privacy fine over Safari cookie row
Google has to pay the largest fine ever imposed on a single company by the US Federal Trade Commission. Google agreed to pay $22.5 million...
Facebook removes Australian page depicting Aboriginal people as drunks and welfare cheats
Facebook has removed an Australian page that depicted Aboriginal people as drunks and welfare cheats after a public outcry. The Aboriginal Memes page had allowed...
Homo rudolfensis: new human species discovered among fossils from Northern Kenya
Researchers have discovered that fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago. The discovery suggests that at...
Curiosity rover lifts its mast and uses its high navigation cameras for the first time
NASA’s Curiosity rover has lifted its mast and used its high navigation cameras for the first time. The robot vehicle has returned black and white...
Facebook allows app developers to advertise on its members’ mobile-device news feeds
Facebook will allow app developers to advertise their products on its members' mobile-device news feeds. The network will charge a fee for every time users...
Bingo Friendzy, Facebook’s first real-money gambling app, launched in UK
Bingo Friendzy, Facebook’s first real-money gambling app, has been launched in UK. Developed by London-based online gambling operator Gamesys, the Bingo Friendzy app allows users...
YouTube app missing from iOS6 Beta
YouTube app is missing from the next version of Apple's iOS6 operating system. Apple said the app had been removed because its license to produce...
Not being on Facebook is a sign that you’re abnormal and dysfunctional, say psychologists
Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists believe people who aren't on...
Mars images taken by Curiosity rover during descent
Images of the surface of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover as it made its historic descent yesterday have now been released. NASA has provided...
Alzheimer’s drug bapineuzumab shelved after trial failure
US pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson say they will stop development of Alzheimer's drug bapineuzumab, because it failed in two late-stage clinical...
Wikipedia goes down after two cables were cut in Florida
Wikipedia was knocked offline on Monday due to two accidentally cut cables near a data centre in Florida. The online encyclopedia and various associated services...
Gibson Guitar admits violating the Lacey Act after using illegal timber from Madagascar
The US government has settled its legal case against the iconic Gibson Guitar company over use of illegal timber from Madagascar in its instruments. Nashville-based...
Chemotherapy can undermine itself by causing a rogue response in healthy cells
A new study suggests that chemotherapy can undermine itself by causing a rogue response in healthy cells, which could explain why people become resistant. The...
Curiosity rover touches down on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just landed on Mars. The one-ton vehicle was reported to have landed in a deep crater near the planet's equator at...
Curiosity rover edges closer to the Red Planet
The Curiosity rover remains perfectly on course to make its Monday (GMT) landing on the Red Planet, NASA says. The NASA robot's flight trajectory is...
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