It's not all about threatening to tow people's cars away at the DVLA. They do have time for some fun, with the national numberplate registrar regularly adding rude or offensive number and letter combinations to its banned list.
Looks like that risqué Justin Bieber image your friend posted, wasn't really their handy work. A 'virus' has been wrecking havoc on Facebook, posting porn, photoshopped celebrities, violent and abusive pictures, all through a browser vulnerability.
Are you the type who likes to get sozzled and ride public transportation home late at night? Congratulations, you are a gadget thief's favorite target! The NYPost reports that New York's police department is training a new squadron of drunk-impersonators to bust them.
Sony, Samsung, Panasonic and 3D technology specialist Xpand 3D are moving forward quickly with plans to create a single format for active shutter 3D glasses, with many more TV makers joining the standards licensing scheme.
A survey that cobbled together the results of around two million broadband speed tests has found that, on average, our connection speeds drop by over a third during the peak evening Twitter/Facebook period.
This isn't the teeth of a machine; the chainmail shirt your cousin uses for larping, or the DNA sequence of Justin Bieber's love child.
The H1N1 flu pandemic killed 17,000 people across the globe between 2009 and 2010. Pretty terrifying. To prevent that from ever happening again, scientists have created a super-detailed computer model of the killer virus.
Chalk this one up as rumour, but Engadget's been sent a render of a new HTC handset codenamed 'Zeta'. The monster device is supposedly packing a beast of a 2.5GHz quad-core CPU besting the previously rumoured quad-core Edge.
TalkTalk is getting ready to launch the first finished YouView product, with a few thousand early adopters able to start trailing its new Freeview-based TV box from early next year.
Making your own set of Stormtrooper armour is a huge undertaking, but making it out of carbon fibre instead of plastic vacuum-forming techniques? You've just earned yourself a place next to Gene Roddenberry and Gary Gygax in nerd heaven.
According to wireless guru John Stanton, he and Steve Jobs repeatedly discussed the feasibility of creating a "synthetic carrier" over Wi-Fi connections—thereby squeezing out the networks—between 2005 and 2007. Stanton didn't elaborate on why he abandoned the idea. Further analysis is available at Computerworld.
We’ve been tracking the 4G 'messiah' in the UK for what feels like years now -- promises of streaming and downloading whatever we like, whenever we like, and faster than we could have dreamed. And while the promise is rolling through to reality thanks to finally getting trials from the likes of O2, it’s still a couple of years until we start living the dream of downloading SpiceWorld: The Movie in a minute in the centre of London.
The general manager of the French division of Nokia has just let slip one enormous great secret, revealing plans for a Nokia made Windows 8 tablet. And it'll be launching next summer.
There are lots of explanations for the gigantic structures built in China's desert. But the most mysterious thing is invisible: according to a former CIA analyst, there's someone who has ordered tonnes of satellite photos of this area since 2004.
Avid Motorola fans will be pleased to know that the kevlar-clad Droid RAZR is available now free on contract from £31 per month and SIM-free from £450. Grab your RAZR from Phones4U or Carphone Warehouse on the high street, or hit up Amazon.
For a couple of quid you get an app that lets you churn out retro looking photos from your iPhone. Orrrrrrrr you bring some analogue back in to the process with Holga's brilliant new iPhone case. It packs a rotary dial filled with nine plastic lenses and filters.
