In case you haven't "turned on" Google's homepage, it's basically celebrating Robert Moog's birthday with a fully-functioning analogue synth attached to an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape machine. OH MY GOD, this is incredible. There goes my day. Read More >

Since the start of the week, Facebook's stock price has been sinking like an anti-social stone. Despite NASDAQ's open admission about screwing up the offering, the Wall Street Journal is pointing its finger higher up the chain. Read More >

It looks like someone's been listening to the Angry Virgin Media man, as it's emerged today that some members of parliament are concerned BT might end up with too dominant a position in our telecomms world once again. Read More >

The man at Microsoft's helm, Steve Ballmer, is an optimistic guy. So optimistic, in fact, that he plans for a significant proportion of the world's population to be using Windows 8 by the end of 2013. Read More >

The long-running investigation into BSkyB's possible monopoly of film services in the UK is over, with the Competition Commission finding that Sky doesn't have an unfair stranglehold on distributing Hollywood blockbuster movies in the UK, thanks in part to the new wave of digital streaming services. Read More >

Everything Everywhere, the annoyingly named, pain in the arse to type, new network formed by the merger of Orange and T-Mobile, has completed its technical fiddlings, meaning users of both companies can now switch, seamlessly, between the two networks when using 3G services. They have now become one. Read More >

Every year it's the same rumour: "the new iPhone will have a 16:9 display." It even circulated before the first iPhone came out, and happened with the iPad too. This year isn't different. But does it make sense? Would the next iPhone really have a 16:9 screen? Read More >

Axel Yberg and his firm Akke make what he calls functional art. That translates to fun creations like his Pingtuated Equilibripong table, which may or may not be the most beautiful ping pong table in existence. Read More >

This week, IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT's Technology Review that Siri, best pal of Zooey Deschanel and oft-snarky gal-Friday of the iPhone, has been banned from the company's internal networks, over concern that spoken queries might be stored somewhere. Read More >

Actually, I can answer that for you: no. But, do you want a camera on your phone that can churn out 16-megapixel images? Perhaps! Good news, then, because OmniVision has just announced new high-resolution image sensors for mobile devices that can shoot 4K video. Read More >

It's tough being a dog the size of a cat. Not only do you have "toy" in your title, people try to carry you around like a purse—which is just demeaning. On the other hand, as a small dog, only you can fit in this awesome self-cleaning shark bed. Read More >

Not to be outdone by Usher's Saturday Night Live misstep last week, Will.I.Am took advantage of his free hand while carrying the Olympic torch to live tweet the moment. Read More >

Sometimes, even the science and studies can be wrong. Not because of an error, but because you didn't dig deep enough. About a dozen years ago we had some discussions at Apple about the placement of the logo on the back of Apple's laptops. As you can see in this Sex and the City scene, the Apple logo is upside down when the lid is opened. Read More >

Of all the exotic space-age materials you can use to build a robot, we never thought bubbles would be a viable option. But researchers at the University of Hawaii have done just that with a microscopic robot creation made from a single bubble controlled by a laser. Read More >

It's not the first attempt to put a new spin on Scrabble by adding another dimension, but while playing this 3DX Word Game you're not tied down by some overbearing board telling you where you can and can't place your tiles. Read More >