According to a survey of 1000 adults involved by tech support service Geek Squad, 87% named the television remote control. As the most over-complicated household gadget, with 94% admitting they don’t understand all the buttons. That’s perhaps not surprising, given the tens of tiny buttons on the average TV remote, along with their...

Microsoft says Space is the new frontier. Space is the “new frontier” of computing, says head of Microsoft Research’s Cambridge lab. Where computing has been 2-D, its future is three-dimensional. So says Andrew Herbert, head of Microsoft Research’s centre in Cambridge. Herbert sees a future dominated by highly context-sensitive,...

Facebook’s hottest next-gen games around. Gamers, pack your bags and grab your portable consoles, because you deserve a vacation. “Dear victim, you have been bitten by …” is a phrase all too familiar to Facebook users. It is both a challenge and an invitation to join the legions of werewolves, vampires and zombies lurking...

Space travel vital for UK’s future!! The UK desperately needs to rethink its refusal to fund human spaceflight, Jane Douglas argues. As a result, even though the UK is a member of the European Space Agency (ESA), and even though ESA has its own astronaut training programme (the European Astronaut Corps), Brits are not eligible for entry into...