‘Forget me’ requests flood Google

GOOGLE has had 12,000 requests from people taking advantage of a new service that lets them be removed or ‘forgotten’ in search results.



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Woop, Woop. Gangnam Style hits two billion views

WITH more views than the population of China and United States put together Korean singer Psy is still riding high on YouTube.



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Jailed for using ‘Allah’ on Twitter

A MATHS teacher in Turkey has been jailed after using the nickname of “Allah” on Twitter, which mocked Islam in a “humiliating” way.



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The fake money sponsoring a V8 Supercar team

DOGECOIN, the digital currency that originally started as a parody of the ‘doge’ meme, could soon be a major sponsor for Betty Klimenko’s Erebus Motorsport V8 Supercar team.



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A hilarious goat video to make your weekend

YOU’VE got to be kidding us. This is the most ridiculous video out today. A goat fetches a lift on his owner’s back — but where in the world are they going?



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ET deals: Lenovo Flex 2 14-inch Core i7 Haswell convertible touchscreen ultrabook for $669

Lenovo effectively gives you a laptop and a tablet in one with this 14-inch Flex 2 convertible touchscreen ultrabook.



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Why do we have a love affair for curved screens and devices? Because your brain finds curves beautiful.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why we seem to have such an infatuation with curvy things? Why do we think that a curved smartphone or TV is better than the planar version? Why did we go gaga for the Nexus S, which had a curve that can probably be measured in fractions of a millimeter? Why has the highlight of CES for two years running been a curved Samsung or LG TV? According to some neuroaestheticists (my new favorite word), it has nothing to do with improved functionality, or even some kind of rational response -- it seems our brains are just hard coded to find curvy things more beautiful.



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Amazon deploys 10,000 robot workers, a year after Obama’s famous Amazon jobs speech

Amazon isn't stopping at its initial 1,000 Kiva robots, with Bezos promising as many as 10,000 will be hard at work by the end of the year. That pales compared to the plans Foxconn has, likely helped by Google.



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Windows XP rises from the grave: Simple hack gives you five more years of updates

With a simple registry hack, you can net yourself five more years of official Microsoft updates for your aging Windows XP machine. Microsoft, though, says you really shouldn't do it -- and that you ought to be a good little boy and "upgrade to a more modern operating system" instead. Read on, to find out how to enable the Windows XP updates -- and whether you should do it or not.



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Scientists discover the reason that batteries lose capacity over time: Nanocrystals!

Too many charge cycles and even the most advanced lithium-ion battery will start to lose its edge. Researchers from the US Department of Energy might have figured out why that happens and what to do about it.



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Zuckerberg pledges $130m for schools

MARK Zuckerberg has donated $130 million to schools, part of a billion dollar investment by the Facebook founder in US public education.



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SpaceX unveils Dragon V2, the world’s first commercial manned reusable spaceship

SpaceX has unveiled what it hopes will be the future of manned, commercial spaceflight: The seven-seater Dragon V2 spaceship. It is very similar to the current, unmanned Dragon resupply spacecraft, but with the new ability to soft 'land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter,' rather than the normal method of parachuting from the atmosphere into the ocean. This will allow the Dragon V2 to be reused up to 10 times before needing a full service, massively reducing the total launch cost. NASA currently pays Russia $63 million for a seat in a Soyuz capsule; a seat on the Dragon V2 would cost just $20 million. Viva la commercial space travel!



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SpaceX unveils new Dragon V2 cargo ship - video

Elon Musk introduces SpaceX's new passenger cargo ship, the Dragon V2, at an event in California on Thursday. Initially Dragon V2 will run unmanned to take supplies to and from the International Space Station, but it hopes to carry passengers by 2016. SpaceX hopes to end Russia's monopoly on space travel Continue reading...



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A hilarious goat video to make your Friday

YOU’VE got to be kidding us. This is the most ridiculous video out today. A goat fetches a lift on his owner’s back — but where in the world are they going?



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‘Human garbage’: Vandals target Scott Morrison

FEDERAL MP Scott Morrison has been the target of an internet vandals after his Wikipedia page was changed to describe him as “human garbage”.



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China can’t handle the truth

INFORMATION on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is banned in China. So is using Facebook. You won’t believe how many people the Chinese government employs as censors to keep it that way.



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One number explains everything

WHEN a Soviet nuclear physicist first proposed this theory he was met with derision. Now many believe it holds the key to everything.



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One number explains everything

ROMANS venerated it; old wives’ tales warn of it; politicians and comedians love it. Now scientists believe one number rules us all.



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Nine men killed by their success

THEY loved coffee, flying or rolling around in barrels. But at the end of the day, what they loved killed them. These are the men who died for their obsessions.



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ET deals: Dell XPS 8700 Core i7 Haswell quad-core desktop for $750

If you need a computer for your small business or home office, you probably don't want to go through the hassle of building it yourself. You want a straight forward purchase, a powerful computer, and an affordable bottom line. This Dell XPS 8700 desktop tower has the horsepower you need to get your work done quickly, and it's currently on sale for 25% off the MSRP if you use our coupon code.



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Lian Li finally delivers the dream aluminium PC case that is also your desk… for $1200

What weighs 100 pounds (45kg), is covered in tempered glass, has eight fans, mounting brackets for three monitors, and space for two complete computers? Lian Li's new aluminium desk PC case, of course.



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How to fly a plane with your brain (but you really shouldn’t – not yet, anyway)

Researchers from the Technische Universität München and the TU Berlin have now demonstrated that a plane can be accurately piloted without touching either pedals or stick -- at least within a flight simulator.



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Apple confirms acquisition of Dr Dre’s Beats for $3 billion

In a rather adventurous move, Apple appears to have acquired Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion - the company co-founded by Dr. Dre in 2008 that in just six short years has sewn up the entire high-end consumer headphones market. In January, Beats also launched Beats Music, a streaming music service that's similar to Spotify. At this point, you are probably wondering the same question as me: Why? Why did Apple acquire Beats? Let's try and work it out.



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Safety fears over bogus car parts

CAR safety experts have warned counterfeit crash repair parts for complex modern systems — such as airbags — may be costing lives.



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Researchers create high-quality graphene with shockingly simple supersonic spray system

By using a supersonic nozzle more commonly found at the business end of rocket and jet engines, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have devised a very simple and inexpensive way of producing high-quality, defect-free sheets of graphene on a range of substrates (materials). Other methods at producing large quantities of defect-free graphene have so far been very elusive -- and, for the purposes that we're interested in (replacing silicon in microelectronics), anything less than defect-free just won't do.



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Snowden reveals his motives, spy training, and patriotism in first US interview

Conducted in secret on Russian soil, an extended NBC interview Edward Snowden revealed more about the man than the controversy he created.



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Nvidia’s Titan Z arrives: Titanic compute, but at $3000 the AMD’s R9 295X2 is a better choice

Nvidia's new Titan Z has launched with dual GPUs and 12 GB of RAM -- but will consumers or enterprise buy a $3000 GPU?



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How to protect yourself from hackers

ONLINE security expert explains how this week’s Apple hacking event worked and how customers can protect themselves in the future.



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‘World’s ugliest woman’ faces up to online bullies

BORN with a rare disease Lizzie Velasquez is defying online bullies and trolls by being the poster girl for an inspirational film about a better online world.



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How astronauts workout in space

WITH no Fitness First around the corner astronauts have to sweat at this space gym where they have to go hard to keep their muscles from withering away.



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An ‘asteroid of doom’ is not coming to kill us

THERE’S an asteroid the size of Manhattan flying towards Earth that’ll wipe out all life. Or is there? This wayward rock has caused some drama.



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Leaked emails show Snapchat CEO is a jerk

“F... bitches, get leid.” Leaked emails show Snapchat’s CEO was a jerky frat boy who spoke too much about urination issues.



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Baby Predator wins... well everything

IT wasn’t the new Godzilla movie that flipped everyone’s minds at fan convention WonderCon. It was a genius mini version of one of cinema’s most frightening creations - Predator.



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Twitter went bonkers for State of Origin

OVER the 80 minutes of football in last night’s State of Origin, more than 100,000 tweets were sent. These were the best of them.



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Staying safe in the outback: Australian iCloud users’ iPhones are being hijacked

Earlier this week, a number of iCloud users in Australia found themselves locked out of their own iPhones, iPads, and Macs. This is incredibly worrisome news, but you can easily protect yourself with a few simple steps. Even if you've already been hit by this attack, all is not lost.



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Done deal: Apple buys Beats

APPLE announces the Beats buyout is a done deal. The technology company spends $3b to buy trendy headphones, a small music streaming service and the elusive cool factor.



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ET deals: $475 off HP Envy 17t-j100 laptop with Leap Motion

The Leap Motion finger-tracking sensor is available for motion control enthusiasts, and it's now being built directly into laptops. HP is offering a 17-inch laptop with Leap Motion, and it's currently 31% off the standard retail price with our coupon code.



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Skype unveils ‘universal translator’

MICROSOFT has announced a new real-time Skype voice translation service it has compared to Star Trek’s ‘universal translator’.



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Adobe makes it easier to download old Creative Suite apps, dump your monthly subscription

Want to get off the Adobe Creative Suite subscription treadmill, but not sure how? Now Adobe makes it easy to re-install your older versions, from right within its Cloud application.



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NASA’s new InSight lander will plumb the depths of Mars in 2016

In just over two years, NASA hopes to have InSight on the surface of Mars to see what makes the red planet tick.



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Watch here: Google take its self-driving car for a spin - video?

Google showcases its latest self-driving car prototype, allowing members of the public to be taken for a spin. The small electric, two-seater car has no steering wheel, accelerator pedals or brake pedals. It incorporates laser sensors and radars for navigation and spacial recognition, with a limited maximum speed of 25mph for safety reasons Continue reading...



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New method of SSD garbage collection can boost drive performance up to 300%

A Japanese research team is claiming a storage efficiency breakthrough that could improve SSD performance by a huge margin.



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Microsoft shows off real-time universal speech translator for Skype, coming in 2014

At the inaugural Code Conference in California, CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that Microsoft's real-time speech translation technology will finally make the jump from the mystical, bottomless pit of its R&D department to a consumer product: Skype. On stage at the conference, Nadella demoed a beta version of Skype Translator, which performed real-time translation of English to German speech, and vice versa. Skype Translator isn't perfect, but it's tantalizingly close to the creation of a Star Trek-like universal translator -- or Babel fish if you prefer -- that allows everyone in the world to communicate, even if they don't share a common language. Suffice it to say that such a feature would be of massive importance both socially and economically -- and, of course, it could be a huge money maker for Microsoft, too.



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Google’s new self-driving car: Electric, no steering wheel, and incredibly cute

You are looking at Google's very own, built-from-scratch-in-Detroit self-driving car. The battery-powered electric vehicle has as a stop-go button, but no steering wheel or pedals. The plan is to build around 200 of the mostly-plastic cars over the next year, with road testing probably restricted to California for the next year or two. Compared to the fairly aggressive stance of other notable EVs, like the Tesla Model S or Toyota Prius, Google's new self-driving car is incredibly cutesy, closely resembling a Little Tikes plastic car -- there's even the same damn smiley face on the front.



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Valve delays Steam Machines until 2015 – but given how vague the term is, what does that mean?

Valve has announced that it's Steam Machines, previously scheduled to ship this year, will now slip into 2015. The implication is that the company is still hard at work on its controller design.



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Meet the world’s fastest textsmith

OMG! The record for typing out a text has been broken and surprise! It’s been done by a teen. [Sidenote: Texting is good if you have anger issues]



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Aaaaaaaaaaaargh! Mosquitonado!

YOU’VE seen tornadoes, sharknados and firenados. Now we bring you the scariest ’nado of them all. This thing is ridiculously horrible and nasty. It is also real.



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Australia is holding Twitter back

NEW data shows that Australia is holding Twitter back in the Asia-Pacific region, casting doubts over its future in the country.



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World’s most wanted cyber crims

THESE are the men who have hacked their way to steal secrets, empty bank accounts and scam companies out of millions of dollars.



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Google’s car drives without a steering wheel

GOOGLE’S latest self-driving car doesn’t use a steering wheel, brakes or pedals. It’s the latest step in the tech giant’s bid to get driverless cars on the market.



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What’s it like driving McLaren’s latest supercar?

MEET McLaren’s beastly new supercar, the asphalt-devouring 650S. It does 0-100 in less than 3-seconds and is nothing short of breath taking.



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What really happens when women refuse

WOMEN hit in the face with bowling balls, burned with acid, shot, stabbed, beaten and killed. Why? Because they refused a man’s advances.



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iPhone users need to take this security measure

A BUNCH of Aussie iPhones were hacked and their users were held to ransom this week, but if they used this security measure it could have been avoided.



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Does LG have the phone to beat Apple?

LG’s has finally launched its heavily leaked G3 handset, but does it have what it takes to rival the iPhone? Read our first review to get the lowdown.



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Nokia Lumia: tablet cost turn-off

THERE is much to like about Nokia’s first tablet/laptop, but price is not one, writes Alex Kidman.



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Blasting drugs into your brain with ultrasound: Is this the future of chemotherapy?

Phased array technology enables an ultrasound beam to be focused to pinpoint locations inside the body. Researchers from Chang Gung University in Taiwan have now managed to shrink tumors deep inside the brains of rats by using this technique to blast drugs in through tiny channels created within the vasculature.



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Solar Roadways passes $1.4 million in crowdfunding: Just short of the $56 trillion required, but not bad for a crazy idea

Over the weekend, the Solar Roadways project on Indiegogo reached its target of $1 million. At the time of publishing, that figure is now north of $1.4 million, with five days left to go. The concept is verging on utopian: By replacing the USA's concrete and asphalt roads with solar panels, we could produce three times more electricity than we consume, instantly solving just about every energy problem we have (geopolitical stuff, reliance on fossil fuels, CO2 production, etc.) It's not hard to see why Solar Roadways has attracted so much attention and money: On paper, it really does sound like one of the greatest inventions ever. In reality, though, where, you know, real-world factors come into play, it will probably never make the jump from drawing board to large-scale deployment.



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Iran court summons Zuckerberg

AN IRANIAN judge has summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer allegations his company’s apps have breached people’s privacy.



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ET deals: $270 off the Lenovo Y50 gaming laptop with GTX 860M

If you're a PC gamer, then you know how hard it can be to travel. Packing up a massive gaming rig is a hassle, and you're lucky if it survives the trip through checked luggage. Thankfully, gaming laptops are quite powerful these days, and Lenovo has the perfect gaming solution on sale. If you use our coupon code, you can save $270.00 off of the Lenovo Y50 -- a whopping 18% off the MSRP.



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Watch Dogs: Analyzing the impact of Nvidia’s GameWorks integration and AMD performance

Forbes has slammed Watch Dogs as the latest example of GameWorks optimization hurting AMD, but the situation appears to be more complicated than that -- and it's not helped by the generally wretched state of the game in general.



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Google - was it worth it?

THE world’s biggest brand has just undergone a revamp. But blink and you’d miss it. The online giant’s logo change will leave you searching.



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MH370 satellite logs released, but redactions by Malaysian government will only fuel further conspiracy theories

Malaysian authorities, working with British satellite company Inmarsat, has released 47 pages of satellite logs that were used to track flight MH370 to the southern Indian Ocean. The timing on this release is significant, as Australia today announced that the deep-sea search for flight MH370 has been postponed for three months, pending a complete bathymetric (topographical) map of 60,000 square kilometers of the seabed where MH370 is thought to have crashed. As the search for the missing plane moves into its eleventh week, we yet again have to wonder whether we are looking in the right place or not. With the release of the satellite logs, can we now check if Inmarsat is right about MH370's final resting place?



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B-52 receives first tech upgrade since 1961: Now with color screens and wireless networking

The B-52 Stratofortress, which first entered service as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War in 1952, has received its first ever technology overhaul. This overhaul, dubbed CONECT, brings the B-52H bomber kicking and screaming into the late 20th century, with a digital intercom system, color displays, a LAN for the plane's various systems, and other bleeding-edge upgrades. Previously, the B-52H was a mishmash of digital and analog systems, with monochrome displays and targeting systems that had to be manually programmed from pen-and-paper coordinates. You'll be glad to hear that, like the plane's original load-out, all of the new systems have been radiation shielded for nuclear apocalypse warfare.



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Watch Dogs: Bullets over broadband

REVIEW: Watch Dogs refers to hackers as modern-day magicians. That’s a good analogy for the bag of tricks we get to use, running amok in this huge and impressively-detailed map of Chicago.



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Samsung is bringing back the flip phone

REMEMBER those awesome clamshell mobiles? They’re being rolled out again but this time they’re being aimed at a surprising group.



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Hackers hold Apple users ransom

APPLE users have received sinister messages from a mysterious hacker named Oleg Pliss who held their devices ransom.



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Shocking secrets revealed online

HILARIOUS, scandalous and (just quietly) relatable. Here are the gobsmacking revelations to be found on new social media app Secret.



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Shoppers slam eBay after hack attack

ANGRY eBay users say they are only now receiving emails warning them to change passwords — a week after auction giant’s customer database was hacked.



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These are the world’s best police cars

WHILE our Ford Falcons are pretty quick, they’re nothing compared to some other high performance beasts sitting in police garages around the world.



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The weird, awesome things Instagram can teach you

WANT to learn a foreign language, or impress your boss with business jargon? How about a clever life hack or weird fact? Look no further than these super useful Instagram accounts.



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Game of Thrones could happen here

DRAGONS, giant wolves, ice walls and endless winters. It’s not all fantasy — this is the “magic” of GoT that could happen in real life.



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Warm, isn’t it. Is winter coming?

RECORDS have melted across the country as capital cities experience weeks of unseasonably warm weather. We ask the experts: Will winter ever arrive?



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Turn off the stove with your phone

APPLE is said to be joining the smart home market, by launching a system that can control everything from your lights and stove to your electric blanket.



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20th anniversary Pentium specs leak ahead of launch – will this be the modern era’s Celeron 300A?

The specs on intel's upcoming Pentium Anniversary core have leaked, and the new core is a solid offering -- but how well enthusiasts take to it will depend on its overclocking support. If this chip can scale, it could be the Celeron 300A of the new generation.



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Playing the sales game: Do game releases actually increase console sales?

If a platform is struggling, our first assumption is that there just aren't enough games available. Conventional wisdom has it that offering up a plethora of games is what matters most to any console, and everything else is secondary. By looking skeptically at snapshots of gaming history, I hope to find out if game releases actually impact console sales in any meaningful way.



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Kids confused by 1970s computer

KIDS have become so used to fast and user friendly technology that many can’t even recognise a 1970s computer let alone make it work. Watch the results.



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Tricks smart commuters use to save time

CLAW back precious spare time by ticking menial tasks like paying bills, grocery shopping, washing and vacuuming from the bus, tram or train. Here’s how ...



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New supercomputer to aid emergency workers

AUSTRALIANS will be able to better prepare for extreme weather events with the purchase of a new supercomputer by the Bureau of Meteorology.



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Black hole could be the Bermuda Triangle of space

JUST above Brazil, there’s a region in space where space computers crash and astronauts see strange flashes of light. Is this the Bermuda Triangle of space?



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Simple tips to make your TV picture better

THESE days there is no reason why you shouldn’t be watching your favourite game or show in crystal clarity so make sure your TV is working optimally with these simple tricks.



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Retro mobile fans bring back the brick

THEY fit in a pocket, have batteries that last all week and are almost indestructible: old-school mobiles are making a comeback — and fans are paying top dollar.



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10 life experiences you need to have again

GOSH, the ‘80s and ‘90s were great. So great in fact that there is no reason you shouldn’t relive the best bits. So here are the things from the Golden Years that you should do all over again.



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New tech could stop shark attacks

A NEW hi-tech buoy is able to detect sharks and warn swimmers before it gets near a beach.



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How to escape the nine to five grind

‘LIFESTYLE design’ guru Tim Ferriss tells how you can escape the rat race by shrinking your work down to just four hours a week. Yes, it can be done.



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Mystery donor tweeting clues for cash

A SECRET benefactor is hiding cash around San Francisco and tweeting photos with location hints as part of a “social experiment for good”.



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How Netflix is set to change your life

INTERNET streaming service Netflix is considering launching in Australia next year. Here’s six ways this development could change your life.



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Case closed: dinosaur ‘proves’ bible theory

THE Aussie man building a Noah’s ark in America will exhibit a fossil named “Ebenezer” that ‘proves’ humans lived alongside dinosaurs.



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Apple to unveil new ‘mystery’ product

JUST when Apple watchers figured the annual developers conference would be a snooze, there comes a juicy rumour that the tech giant has a new “mystery” product in store.



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@Youdidnoteatthat calls out food fakers

PHOTOS of cupcakes next to nail polish and Kim Kardashian carrying an ice-cream as if it’s a clutch bag are all over Instagram but one account is calling them out for being “contrived”.



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Case closed: dinosaur ‘proves’ bible theory

THE Aussie man building a Noah’s ark in America will exhibit a fossil named “Ebenezer” that ‘proves’ humans lived alongside dinosaurs.



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Facebook sorry for ban on Queer writer

HE’S one of the brains behind a hit television show, but what did he do to cop a 30-day ban on Facebook? You’ll never guess.



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Facebook sorry for ban on Queer writer

HE’S one of the brains behind a hit television show, but what did he do to cop a 30-day ban on Facebook? You’ll never guess.



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Twitter blocks ‘blasphemous’ tweets

TWITTER has blocked dozens of tweets and accounts in Pakistan because they were considered “blasphemous” and “unethical”.



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The futuristic dream of wirelessly charging your smartphone while you stand in line at the coffee shop may soon come to pass

A new company, called Energous, has devised a method of wirelessly transmitting power over long distances. Its prototype system can beam 10 watts, more than enough to charge your smartphone or tablet, over a distance of 15 feet -- and, rather importantly, it will track your device if you move around. The company hopes to commercialized its technology soon, with partner companies showing off the tech at CES in January 2015. It seems that the first generation of wireless charging -- those awful, short-range charging plates -- may finally be drawing to a close.



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Qualcomm, Oracle, Imagination team up to optimize Java, OpenWRT, Internet of Things for MIPS architecture

Imagination Technologies wants to reinvigorate MIPS with its own new collaborative effort but is there any room for the once-mighty titan of supercomputing? Open source or not, it's got a tough road ahead.



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Tonight’s brand-new meteor shower could turn into a 1,000-meteors-per-hour storm

Fellow Earthlings! We may be in for a stellar delight tonight. For the first time ever, Earth will pass through the tail of comet 209/P LINEAR, creating a brand new, never-before-seen meteor shower. Because we don't know anything about them, the Camelopardalids have the potential to be one of the most dramatic meteor showers ever -- a so-called meteor storm -- or, on the other hand, there might not be more than a few dozen shooting stars per hour. There's only one way to find out: Stay up late tonight and look to the skies!



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Twitter blocks ‘blasphemous’ content

MICROBLOGGING site Twitter has blocked dozens of tweets and accounts in Pakistan because they were considered “blasphemous” and “unethical”.



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Steam In-Home Streaming: At last, you can play PC games on the toilet (video review)

After a few months of closed testing, Valve has released a public beta version of Steam with In-Home Streaming enabled. In-Home Streaming allows you to stream any game from a host PC to a client (a Mac laptop or wimpy Windows netbook, for example). This will eventually be a key feature that allows for cheap, low-power Steam Machines in the living room that can stream games from a more powerful gaming PC. Read on for our hands-on impressions, and a video demo of me streaming Dark Souls 2 to my laptop while sitting on the toilet.



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UK military creates quantum compass that could be the successor to GPS

The UK Ministry of Defense is exploring the development of a quantum compass that could effectively replace GPS in submarines and other military applications. If it pans out, a quantum compass could end up in your smartphone one day too.



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NASA creates amazing global selfie

NASA have unveiled the world’s first interactive global selfie with more than 36,000 pictures of people. Zoom in. Can you see yourself or a friend?



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World’s most annoying ringtone has been fixed

YOU have almost certainly heard it before. The internet is going nuts over this ‘fix’ to the world’s most irritating (and weirdly popular) ringtone.



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Out of Steam: Upcoming Steam Machines won’t be very profitable

Hardware manufacturers remain committed to Steam Machines but are publicly grousing about the low margins and limited profit upside. Is Valve the only company that stands to make a profit on this new type of system?



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Flies ‘think before they act’

EVEN flies need a moment to reflect. Researchers have found that the insects gather information like humans to make rational decisions.



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AMD’s next big gamble: ARM and x86 cores working side by side on the same chip

AMD has already announced that it plans to build ARM and x86 cores on a common platform going forward -- but what if that's just the first step in the company's long-term plan? We examine the case for a future ARM-x86 combined processor family, with both architectures sharing space on the same SoC.



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ET deals: Dell XPS 8700 Core i7 desktop with 24-inch display for $900

If you're interested in video production, image editing, or high-end gaming, you'll definitely want to invest in a desktop and a high-res monitor. Dell is currently offering this pre-configured Dell XPS 8700 with a 24-inch monitor for just $900, so you can snag yourself an incredibly powerful desktop without having to go through the hassle of ordering every piece separately.



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Alien life exists and could be found within 20 years, with enough funding, astronomers tell Congress

Two of the world's preeminent extraterrestrial astronomers (as in, they research extraterrestrials, not that they're extraterrestrials themselves) have told US Congress that there is almost certainly alien life out there in the universe -- and with adequate funding, we should find that alien life within 20 years.



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Food flying fast via drone delivery

TALK about a quick delivery. A pizza restaurant in Mumbai has successfully test delivery by drone, something it says will be the norm in five years.



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2015 Volvo S60, V60 with Drive-E review: Faster, safer cars for Democrats

A four-cylinder engine with both a supercharger and a turbocharger boosts mileage by 20%. Volvo raised the bar on safety and infotainment, too. All told, this is a real challenge to the BMW 3 Series.



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Google’s Quantum Computing Playground turns your PC into a quantum computer

Thanks to some ingenious engineers at Google, you can now turn your desktop PC into a quantum computer. Well, OK, not quite: You can simulate a quantum computer on your PC by running the Quantum Computing Playground web app for Chrome. The Playground allows you to run famous quantum algorithms, such as Grover's, or even to write your own quantum script. Short of buying your own quantum computer -- which, despite what D-Wave says, you can't -- this is the next best thing.



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Snapdragon 805 benchmarked: Krait’s last hurrah, and the arrival of a new GPU king

Qualcomm has finally taken the wraps off the Snapdragon 805 SoC. The Snapdragon 805 is the mobile industry's last great hurrah for the aging 32-bit ARMv7 architecture, and also Qualcomm's Krait CPU swan song. Truth be told, though, the Snapdragon 805 isn't really about the CPU at all -- much more importantly, it's the vehicle for the introduction of the new and incredibly powerful Adreno 420 GPU, and some new buses and other logic blocks that allow for 4K display and 4K video capture. Just how powerful is the Snapdragon 805? Read on for more details and benchmarks.



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Holy cow, that’s grotesque

LOOK closely to see what’s odd here — and apologies if you find it gross. Yes, farmers are fitting their cattle with portholes.



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Chinese phones are about to change everything

THE next big thing won’t be from Apple or Samsung, it will be from China. The second mobile revolution is about to begin.



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Aussie cities could be shrouded in smog

IMAGINE living in a city where you can’t see the skyline. This is life in Beijing but did you know 3000 people die every year in Australia from air pollution? These are the country’s smog hot spots.



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The truth about island’s mystery glow

THESE bizarre lights filled the skies over Hawaii, terrifying residents and titillating UFO watchers. But the US Government reckons they are anything but strange.



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You can now withdraw cash using your veins

ONE country is rolling out ATMs which use your unique vein pattern to authorise a cash withdrawal.



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You can now withdraw cash using your veins

ONE country is rolling out ATMs which use your unique vein pattern to authorise a cash withdrawal.



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New SingStar uses your phone as a mic

SONY is finally bringing Singstar to the PlayStation 4, but doing away with the traditional microphone and replacing it with your phone. Good idea?



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Robots that sweat, breathe, and get goosebumps to manipulate your emotions

A technology showcase recently revealed just a selection of the life-like features in development for the next generation of civilian robotics.



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With a $6 million prize fund, Dota 2 is now one of the world’s biggest sports

Valve's annual Dota 2 tournament -- The International -- is now one of world's biggest sporting events. Thanks to the Valve's most excellent shepherding of both the game and the 5-versus-5 MOBA genre, an ingenious crowdfunding scheme, and the continuing growth of spectator esports, The International now has a total prize fund of over $6 million. The winning team will take home somewhere in the region of $3 million. To put that into perspective, that's more than all but the top sports professionals take home in a year. How did Dota 2, which only left beta testing last year, become one of the world's biggest sports in the world?



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Google admits it wants to put ads on ‘fridges, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches’

Google has admitted in an SEC filing that, in a few years, it 'could be serving ads and other content on refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities.' If you thought that Google's recent forays into driverless cars, wearable computing, and smart homes were purely about creating awesome, life-enhancing products, you were mistaken: As always, Google has its ever-watchful eye on blanketing as much of the world as possible in advertising.



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eBay urges password change

ONLINE shopping giant eBay has urged customers to change their passwords after it was hit by a massive cyberattack.



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New report slams Xbox One and PS4 power consumption: Inefficiencies still abound

A new report from the National Resources Defense Council breaks down console power consumption across the new generation -- and slams the Xbox One for its high usage in stand-by and while watching television.



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The Surface Pro 3 will replace your laptop. With a stylus? Really?

Watching the Surface Pro 3 event yesterday, I wryly smiled as Panos Panay finally revealed Microsoft's vision for the future of mobile computing: The damn stylus. Snap-in keyboards, friction hinges, and high-resolution displays are still there, of course, but it is the humble stylus that will elevate Microsoft from tablet also-ran to mobile computing greatness. Apparently.



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Microsoft launches Surface Pro 3 in New York video

Microsoft introduces Surface Pro 3 at an event in New York on Tuesday. The device is billed as a lightweight tablet with the power and performance of a laptop. Surface Pro 3 is 30% thinner than an 11-inch MacBook Air. It has a 12-inch full HD display and a new 'Surface Pen' for precise drawing and note-taking Continue reading...



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Will this kill the laptop?

MICROSOFT has just announced its latest Surface device, and it has its eyes on one thing — Apple’s Macbook Air.



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Seven signs someone is lying to you

IT’S hard to tell if someone is lying when you’re not speaking to them face to face. Hard, but not impossible. These are the telltale signs of dishonesty in emails and texts.



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Robohand’s cheap 3D-printed leg is set to revolutionize prosthetics

To lower costs and widen availability of prosthetic limbs, a team of people from around the globe have teamed up to create 3D-printable prosthetics under the name "Robohand." While the initial focus was on hands and fingers, the team has now set their sights on offering a 3D-printable leg at a fraction of the cost of traditional prosthetics.



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’UFOs’ crash to Earth in China

IT WAS enough to get any space nerd excited, but Chinese experts have revealed the truth behind these objects which fell from the sky and crashed into fields.



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Chinese government bans Windows 8 due to Microsoft’s retirement of Windows XP

China is claiming to be so worried about future software support from Microsoft that it is banning the use of Windows 8 on government PCs.



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Scientists work out how create matter from light, to finally prove Einstein’s E=mc2

Physicists in England claim they have discovered how to create matter from light, by smashing together individual massless protons -- a feat that was first theorized back in 1934, and has been considered practically impossible until now. If this new discovery pans out, the final piece of the physics jigsaw puzzle that describes how light and matter interact would be complete. No one's quite sure of the repercussions if matter can indeed be produced from photon-photon collision, but I'm sure something awesomely scientific will emerge before long.



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Paralysed woman walks with robotic skeleton - video

Sophie Morgan, who was paralysed from the chest down when she was 18, tries out a robotic skeleton which has allowed her to walk for the first time in 11 years. The machine, called Rex, is being made available in the UK after being used for paralysed people in the US and New Zealand. Morgan says 'having the opportunity to stand and walk again is the stuff of dreams" Continue reading...



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Lamarck’s revenge: The epigenetics revolution may redeem one of Darwin’s oldest rivals

Epigenetics is one of the fastest growing areas in science today, but it's still under attack as the ghost of a long-discredited evolutionary theory.



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