Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday. “Drive-by attacks” in which hackers booby-trap legitimate websites with malicious...

A paralysed woman in the US has been able to use her mind to control a robotic arm, thanks to nearly 100 electrodes implanted in her brain. Cathy Hutchinson is unable to move her limbs or speak after a severe stroke 15 years ago, but was able...

The Big Apple may not have California’s weather, but tech fans at New York Internet Week say that in every other way the city is on course to become Silicon Valley 2.0. The sense of an east coast rising raged in Manhattan this week, where...

Evidence is mounting that the next generation of Apple’s iPhone will have a bigger screen than current models, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Apple had ordered screens measuring at least 4.0 inches (10.2 cm) diagonally...

The more colours you have the quicker you evolve – if you’re a bird. Australian scientists have confirmed a theory from the 1950s about the evolution of birds. They found bird species which have many colours in their plumage evolve...

Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that it is aiming to launch flat-panel TVs using new screen technology called OLED during the second half of this year in the domestic market. Samsung said the 55-inch TV using the ultra-thin display will...

A major revamp of Bing will allow users to see which of their Facebook friends know about a given topic. A new version of the Microsoft search engine will be rolled out in the weeks ahead and was to be widely available in the United States in...

Steve Wozniak designed his first computer “for fun” and resigned himself to being a “geek” with “almost no chance of having a girlfriend or a wife”. But where the late Steve Jobs was the visionary behind Apple,...

Lasers and reflectors are to be used to measure the methane emissions from cattle and other livestock. Scientists from the University of Melbourne lead a group of researchers from five Australian universities and Canberra teaming with the CSIRO’s...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has stunned a business forum in Perth with a personal admission that no one saw coming. Answering a question on Australia’s $36 billion national broadband network (NBN), the American computer wizard and engineer...