The premium rate regulator has uncovered two cases of smartphone apps charging users without their knowledge or consent.

A car modified to be powered on coffee grounds has been involved in an attempt on a land speed record for vehicles run on gas from organic waste.

The complete works of Shakespeare have almost been recreated by a few million virtual monkeys mashing the keys of virtual typewriters.

Researchers unveil a design for an "antimagnet" - a sort of invisibility cloak that undoes the effects of magnetic fields and which could find wide application.

A Perthshire firm looks to expand to meet the "staggering demand" for its mobile phone applications designed for theme parks.

Samsung and Apple have gone to court in Australia and Germany in their ongoing, tit-for-tat patent war.

Ultra-high resolution images of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now available on the web, after Google helped digitise the ancient texts.