HTC's said to be pushing out an update for its monstrously popular HTC One smartphone in Europe today, focusing on updates to the phone's camera system. The upgrade features camera sound, noise reduction, dynamic range and EXIF data fixes, plus HTC says users who install it should see "improved system performance and stability" as a result. An anonymous Samsung employee said it's still a pile of rubbish, though. [Slashgear] Read More >>

You know the much-ballyhooed theory that high national debt correlates to crappy economic growth? The one that's trotted out on a regular basis by politicians arguing for austerity budgets? Well, according to new findings, the study that austerity proponents cite more than any other is based on an Excel error. A big one. Read More >>

Microsoft's Office suite is a necessary evil for many of us. While we'd love to say we never need Word, PowerPoint, or sodding Excel, chances are you do, and quite often. Now a handy little hack lets you bag Office 365 free for a whole six months. Read More >>

Andy Rubin, the now-departed former boss of Google's Android division, has revealed that the OS was initially developed to power digital cameras, before the slump in snapper sales encouraged his team to turn it into a mobile phone system. Read More >>

A prolific Twitter tech spec leaker has published an image of a new smartphone going by the name HTC First, which, according to wild internet speculation we're happy to be part of, may well be the first proper Facebook phone to feature the social network's bespoke mobile software. Read More >>

If you're particularly paranoid about someone peeping your computer's password while working in a public place, Japanese researchers have come up with a clever solution to the problem. Instead of using your laptop's keyboard, you use an on-screen pin pad to type your password. But the cursor movement is completely obfuscated by a swarm of other randomly moving cursors. Read More >>

It is a primary job of any designer, illustrator, or artist to deal with choosing colours. Most software only provides cumbersome or inelegant ways of doing so. This utterly simple and addicting website will help you in your hue-rific journey with pristine, undulating tones. Ahhhh. Read More >>

This year's regeneration of Microsoft's Office tools will be locked to one computer. Once you've used your special activation password thing to activate it on one computer, that's it. No transfers, no hard drive upgrades, no shuffling it onto the laptop. Read More >>

Adobe may be trying its best to skirt the issue of crazy high prices in Australia, but it's going to be hard as long as news outlets like News.com.au keep pointing out that it is actually cheaper to fly to the US and pick up a copy of Adobe CS6 than it is to stay in Australia and buy it there. Read More >>

Apple started pushing out iOS 6.1.1 for the iPhone 4S this afternoon. You can download it here. Read More >>

One of the key drivers behind the Raspberry Pi project has said there won't be any new spec Pi hardware this year, as he doesn't want to abandon current users and make them feel like they've already been gazumped by newer models. What an amazing rarity in the tech world. Read More >>

Adobe's a nasty mean bully. It took our hopes of free Photoshop and violently sucker-punched them in the face. I felt picked on, and I wanted to go crying to Mammy. But I didn't. I kept my resolve, and grew from the ashes to be a bigger and better person. You can too. We don't need that meanie Adobe and its so-called 'software'. There's lots of perfectly good alternatives to Photoshop out there, and you know what? Their makers love us. I love them too. Read More >>

Yesterday a Chinese businessman pleaded guilty to selling pirated software—used by defense, space technology and engineering businesses—worth a retail value of over £60 million. Read More >>

If you were hooked up to your computer yesterday, you might've noticed that Adobe apparently released Creative Suite 2 to the public for free. I say apparently, because it turns out that although Adobe stuck the install files and serial numbers on the internet for anyone with an Adobe account to see and download, it apparently didn't want to have a big software give-away -- even though it would've actually been a really good idea. Read More >>

There's a certain aspect of human creation, a quaint sort inconsistent imperfection, that most of us tend to think is exclusive to us meatbags. Turns out it's not; computers can emulate that too, and these weird-looking cartoon faces you could swear were drawn by a five-year-old prove it. Read More >>