Canadian Taylor More has put his house on the market, which is not a particularly newsworthy event even in this age of ongoing housing crises. What's unusual is the asking price, which is $405,000 -- or the equivalent in online currency Bitcoins. Read More >>

Blah blah deficit debt cuts reform monetary policy gah. Words. Very important words though -- our new Twitter-friend George's budget determines what the government spends and where for the next year. That has a huge impact on technology, science, and almost everything we care about. Read More >>

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book; if you can't earn money, why not make it? With your printer. Now that doesn't actually work. Making counterfeit notes is really hard. But that won't keep idiots from trying it, apparently. A man took it a step further though, by trying to return his copier/printer with failed copies still inside. Read More >>

It's no secret that BlackBerry has seen better days, despite the recent introduction of new phones. But one of its bright spots is BlackBerry Messenger, and now, according to Bloomberg, it's looking into adding a money transfer service to this product. Read More >>

The best gadgets are expensive, but so are plenty not-the-best ones too. And regardless of how "good" something is, its only worth as much as it does for you. The best useless machine is, well, useless. Read More >>

PayPal, the infamously ubiquitous king of the online payments world, is moving into the world of real touchy-feely transactions in the UK, launching a chip-and-pin device which will enable retailers to nab money from PayPal accounts, as well as debit and credit cards. Read More >>

If you'd said about £600 million a year, you wouldn't be too far off. Apparently Google pays Apple some ungodly sum each year to stay put as the default search provider for the mobile Safari search box. Search really does cost the Earth. Read More >>

Check your change folks. Apparently the Royal Mint's been firing out some fancy new commemorative £2 coins via London Tube stations, celebrating 150 years of the London Underground. The first load has been given to select tube stations for doling out in change, before a wide release later this year. Read More >>

The Federal Reserve in the US said that one of its internal websites had been hacked today. It's unclear who did the hacking but the Feds say that the hackers were not able to do any serious damage. Reuters says that, "no critical functions of the central bank were affected by the intrusion." Read More >>

Amazon's got a new way to buy stuff for anyone who has a Kindle Fire. Amazon Coins are a virtual currency that will come out in May in the US, and work for all app and in-app purchases on the Kindle Fire. Read More >>

After what seemed like ages of hints and feints, Dell has finally, officially reached a deal to go private. It's going to be led by its founder Michael Dell, with a financial assist from private equity firm Silver Lake and PC enthusiast Microsoft. Will it be enough to make the company — and more specifically, its products — relevant again? Read More >>

It's time for another quarterly earnings, that kooky game wherein companies announce how much cash they've raked in, and then investors spank or hail them without much correlation to reality. Now up: Facebook, which has just entered crazy new territory. Read More >>

A big pot of Europe's money is being channeled in the direction of miraculous super future material graphene, with an enormous €1billion grant about to fund a decade of development work into new uses for the ingenious carbon product. Read More >>

Samsung's quarterly profits exploded by 76 per cent in the final three-month chunk of 2012, thanks to soaring demand for its smartphones and the many internal bits it supplies to other makers. Read More >>

It's generally a bad idea to base your budget on hypothetical money that may or may not end up in your pocket. It's a much worse idea if you're the state of California, and that money is wacky Facebook cash. Read More >>