A robot designed to help care for elderly people is invented at the University of Salford.

A mobile app that can analyse urine for 25 medical conditions has been launched at the TED conference in Los Angeles.

Piracy levels are falling, thanks to a combination of legal action and better legal alternatives, a market research firm says.

Fashion giant DKNY apologises to a US street photographer after hundreds of his photos were used in a Bangkok shop window display without permission.

Infra-red holography could be used to help firefighters locate people trapped in fires, researchers say.

A computer scientist shows off a see-through computer where users can interact with digital content, at the TED (Technology, Education and Design) conference in Los Angeles.

A Northern Ireland man launches a legal challenge to compel Facebook to stop his 13-year-old daughter using the site or publishing images on it.

Nokia has broadened its flagship Lumia range, offering less expensive models of its Microsoft Windows mobile phone.