The Washington Post is reporting that the NSA has a simple way to work out if you're worth hacking or not: it just reads your Google cookies. Read More >>

There's no way 'round the fact that scanning millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities is a chore. But now DARPA is keen to get volunteers helping out—by There's now way 'round the fact that scanning millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities is a chore. But now DARPA is keen to get volunteers helping out--by turning it into a game. Read More >>

Move over Samsung and LG: Apple has been awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office that describes how they could manufacture a new breed of curved touch surfaces. Read More >>

Everyone's heard of DNA, genetics and genome sequencing, but you might not actually know exactly how scientists go about making it all happen. This TED Ed video explains, nicely and simply, how it works. Read More >>

Google's Street View is slowly covering more and more of the world's surface, but it still has holes. Now though, you can help fill them—and all you need is an Android phone or DSLR. Read More >>

Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, but it needn't be chintzy. This sleek nativity set, for instance, brings some simple good design to the festive period. Read More >>

If you feel like your ultrabook is limited in capacity, that won't be the case much longer: Samsung has just announced the industry's first 1TB mSATA SSD, which'll give any ultra-thin laptop a shot in the storage arm. Read More >>

Just like your choice of language in email and the frequency with which you use emoticons says a lot about you, so does the the format in which you send your attachments. Read More >>

You've probably never lent Mars's northern pole a great deal of thought, but you can explore it in wonderful 3D glory in this ESA video. Read More >>

For the NSA, you real life isn't enough. No, as well as reading your emails and monitoring your phone calls, its agents have been deployed inside MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Second Life, as well as Xbox Live. Read More >>

Today is the official launch of the "Hour of Code": a massive campaign to encourage programming and promote computer science in schools across the globe. Read More >>

On December 9th, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart—along with 17 researchers from Stanford -- gave a 90-minute live public demonstration of the technology they'd been working on for the previous 6 years. It changed the face of technology -- and you can watch it in full here. Read More >>

Eight of the largest companies in tech have joined forces to battle the NSA's spying, demanding sweeping reforms of the US Government's surveillance policies. Read More >>

Sometimes, something is so big that you don't notice it for a long time. You suddenly realise you're in a massive crater, say, or that a building is towering overhead. Or, in this case, a gaping security void in the internet. And someone's been siphoning massive amounts of data out of it. Read More >>

The city of Boca do Acre is a beautiful place to live, almost completely covered by the Amazon Rainforest—for now. Because you shouldn't be fooled by the pretty colours in this image: it actually reveals the rapid rate of deforestation in the area. Read More >>