A completely unknown guy in the world of maths has made a breakthrough discovery that will help us understand numbers better. Basically, a guy who once struggled to find a job and had to work at Subway, is helping maths geniuses understand the twin prime conjecture, one of maths' oldest problems. Read More >>

Prepare to be grossed out. You know how you go to the bathroom every day, cut your nails every few weeks and cut your hair every month? Did you ever think about what all that totals up to? What about all those times you've cried or drooled or worked up a sweat? It adds up to an embarrassing amount of fluid! Read More >>

In the big wide world of mental disorders, synesthesia is probably one of the most interesting and least harmful. It's like a sensory remix. But what's it really like? Alex from Bite Sci-Zed, who "suffers" from a flavour of the disorder where her numerals have very distinct colours, explains it. By the numbers. [Numberphile] Read More >>

When Phillip Bump heard about the recently discovered 17-million-digit prime number—the world's biggest!—he decided to celebrate. So he took it and, six digits at a time, converted it into RGB. The result is strangely compelling. [Phillip Bump via Boing Boing] Read More >>

When I hear that someone died in some freak accident that involves fireworks or pavements or parked cars or wild animals, I wonder to myself, what the hell are the odds of that freaking happening? The good thing? They're pretty high! The bad thing? It really, really sucks for that poor soul who's 1 in 50,729,141 to die from fireworks or 1 in 25,364,571 to die from a bee sting. Read More >>

Over the past three years, Wikipedia member West.andrew.g bas been analysing the weird and wonderful data traffic on the English-language Wikipedia. In the the latest edition of Wikipedia's community-managed newspaper, The Signpost, he's revealed the biggest traffic spikes on the site within that time—in the process proving that we're all morbid sports fan. Read More >>

It's still that part of the new year where you forget it's actually 2013 and not 2012 so we can still wrap up last year without feeling like it's too late, right? Anyway. If you were curious as to what happened on the Internet in 2012 in numbers, like how many e-mails were sent or how many people used the Internet, you can find that all out here. Read More >>

If you were ever curious to how many photos get uploaded to Facebook everyday or how many likes happen across the entire social network or the sheer size of data booking the face is responsible for, look no further. Facebook gave a state of the union (of sorts) that detailed just how big Facebook data is. Read More >>

Apple's John Browett, the company's senior vice president of retail, has admitted to getting things a bit wrong recently, after ordering changes to staffing rotas and shift patterns that left some Apple Stores undermanned and employees demoralised and in fear for their jobs. Read More >>

Android's big boss Andy Rubin has fired up his dormant Twitter account to address the world, informing them that he doesn't have any plans to quit Google, and saying the company now sees some 900,000 new Android devices register themselves every single day. Read More >>

Sales of IT gear in the UK grew by 14 per cent year-on-year, but this was achieved thanks to our amazing love of buying shiny new tablets. Take them out of the equation and tech sales would've fallen. Read More >>

Samsung's already counting the cash and planing a nice little holiday with the proceeds from the sales of its new Galaxy S III model, which has accumulated 9million advance orders from phone shops and networks around the world. Read More >>

Despite some weird hardware problems, a rather dubious battery life and the looming threat of Samsung's imminent Galaxy S III, quite a lot of people have opted to lock themslevs into using HTC's quad-core One X phone for the next year or two. Read More >>

PhonepayPlus, the UK body tasked with regulating the often shady world of premium text messaging, has warned of the dangers of putting your mobile number into web sites that promise you amazing free prizes and money. Some people need telling these things? Read More >>

You could be forgiven for thinking that Myspace is pretty much dead and buried by this point. After it got flogged off by News Corp. for a huge loss, the site went through a re-branding exercise, even Justin Timberlake got involved, and isn’t doing all that badly. Read More >>