British architect Richard Rogers is known for putting the guts of buildings on display. In fact, his work has even inspired the scatological style known as Bowellism. This summer, Rogers' exoskeletal style is being writ large in London, where he's building a wedge-shaped tower called the Leadenhall Building. And lucky for us, the construction process is being filmed in high-def. Read More >>

Pretty much everyone has to buy a damned TV licence, which funds what's probably the best media powerhouse in the world, the BBC, but sometimes it's a bit of a ball ache. Here are some of the most hilarious excuses ever recorded by the TV Licencing authority. Can you do any better? Read More >>

If the music's anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the '60s -- and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-insane ideas that were seriously being kicked around by its 'crack' team of engineers, and they're both totally ridiculous and dangerously awesome. Read More >>

Inflation's a right bitch -- at least, that's what Sky'd have you believe. Come September, the price of all their TV services will be increasing by "up to 10 per cent", hitting you where it hurts the most -- the remote. Read More >>

Let's be clear: when Alienware say that the flagship of their new gaming laptop range is the 18, they're lying. The 18 is not a laptop. It is a leviathan, with two discrete graphics cards, 8GB of GPU RAM alone, and 4 -- count 'em, 4 -- SSDs. This is insanity. Read More >>

The Royal Engineers, a.k.a. the people who never got over their 4-year-old fascination with JCBs, have just got a new toy to play with. Named Terrier, it's a heavily armed tank/bulldozer combo that can be remotely commanded to smash through things at 45 mph. Lucky gits. Read More >>

Sometimes the best way to drive a point home is pure, abject terror. And that's the approach Leo Burnett London used in this latest "Think" ad that shows a rather extreme way to discourage drinking and driving. Read More >>

In addition to the recently-unearthed and scary PRISM, the US Government has also been spying on the users of one of its biggest phone networks, Verizon. And given the oh-so-special relationship between the two countries, it's no real surprise to find that data gleaned from phone records has been shared with British security services. Read More >>

In the wake of last night's revelation that everyone in the world has a creepy NSA-shaped stalker, defenders of online liberty and generally angry internet people Anonymous have gathered together a collection of NSA documents, including seemingly important stuff like the US Department of Defense's 'Strategic Vision' for controlling the internet. Read More >>

Good news for those scared of signing their lives away on contract (even for just 30-days at a time): EE's punting new 4G pay-as-you-go plans. Unfortunately, it's seemingly just data, aimed at tablets and MiFis, but it's a start. Who actually uses their phone for anything but data these days, anyway? Read More >>

Pushing the digital ticket to its logical Apple-themed extension, BA's finally added Passbook support to its iPhone app, meaning there might be something other than Starbucks to use with Passbook in the UK. Read More >>

It seems the government has given the go-ahead for a motorway-services pub, issuing a license to serve alcohol from 8am till 1am on the M40 at junction two. Genius or an absolute disaster waiting to happen? Read More >>

Back when a 'smartphone' was one that could play Snake and people actually sent SMSs, pay-as-you-go was the poor cousin of real phone contracts, stuck outside in the cold sending 12p-per-160-character messages while contracted moneybags partied it up with their 'unlimited' plans. Nowadays, though, rolling 30-day contracts and pay-as-you-go numbers offer all the benefits of contracts, without having to suckle on the 24-month-long corporate teat. Read More >>

The City of London Police has teamed up with the usual warriors against copyright theft to launch a campaign attacking UK-based torrent providers -- and is threatening them with up to 10 years in prison under the 2007 Serious Crime Act. Read More >>

Yes, it's an oh-so-sunny Friday afternoon, but before sloping off to the pub, take a moment to share the knowledge in this week's Chatroom+. Our question comes from a slightly butter-fingers reader, who wants to know how to get repairs and replacements for his smartphone. Read More >>