The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers share the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for a series of stories on US electronic spying.

Researchers have developed a new type of pressure sensor - dubbed a "second skin" - which they say could prevent dangerous sores.

US Airways apologises after an explicit photo was sent from its official Twitter account in response to a customer complaint.

The founder of MtGox - once the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange - refuses to travel to the US to testify about losing large amounts of the virtual currency.

A new fibre optic network is to be created in York to provide ultra-fast broadband speeds throughout the city.

The struggle to fix problems caused by the Heartbleed bug could make web browsing speeds slow to a crawl, warns net monitoring firm Netcraft.

A facial recognition database being built by the FBI could contain over 52m images by 2015 causing concern to privacy campaigners