US Navy testing electromagnetic catapult to fling fighter jets off aircraft carriers
Steam catapults have been used since 1950 but electromagnetics could make launches smoother and save energy.
BitWhisper: It's possible to steal data from air-gapped computers using heat
Ben-Gurion University says thermal sensors in air-gapped PCs can be compromised to leak data.
Is Mars One for real?
A Mars One finalist says preference is given to candidates who donate the most money, rather than astronauts
Boeing patents Star Wars-style anti-shockwave force field technology
Boeing has been granted a patent on a system that can prevent explosion shockwaves harming a target.
3D printing celebrities: Now you can have your very own Jeremy Clarkson or Paul McCartney
Sir Paul McCartney wants you have a miniature copy of him, or you could print out Jeremy Clarkson's head
NYPD cop arrested for hacking into FBI database to swindle traffic accident victims
Yehunda Katz faces 10 years in jail for hacking into NYPD and FBI databases to steal personal data
3D-printed mud houses use plant seeds inside to grow roots for foundations
WASP's 3D printer can print affordable mud houses embedded with seeds to grow root support systems.
FAA grants Amazon experimental certificate to test out drone delivery service in the US
The FAA has issued Amazon an experimental airworthiness certificate for a UAV flying within line of sight.
Pirate Bay can now be accessed by UK users as CloudFlare SSL service trumps ISP blocks
UK users of Pirate Bay will no longer need to use a proxy in order to bypass ISP blocks.
Cisco to help customers avoid NSA interception by shipping equipment to empty houses
Concerned about NSA backdoors being installed in routers? Cisco will deliver equipment to vacant addresses
Facebook is being sued for gender and racial discrimination
Former Facebook employee Chia Hong says she was discriminated against for being female and Taiwanese.
Lee Kuan Yew: 'Singapore will survive' - a look back at the country's founding father
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew transformed Singapore from a colonial backwater to an economic superpower.
New York state judge orders sheriff's office to release Stingray phone spying details
The judge believes the public should know how and why fake mobile base stations technology is being deployed.
Uber CEO charged over illegal taxi ring in South Korea while offices raided in Paris
Uber's in trouble in Paris while the CEO has been charged over an illegal taxi ring in South Korea.
Google to start flying giant plane-shaped 84ft-long wind turbines in California
Google X wind turbines fly to an altitude of 1,476 feet and each turbine sends 600 kW back to Earth.
Smart cities will have almost 10 billion connected devices by 2020
Gartner says governments and businesses need to explain sensors and Internet of Things properly to citizens
Google Play store adds human moderators and country-sensitive age rating system
Google has added a global content rating system and human moderators to vet apps, like the iTunes app store.
365 Watch: Here's a smartwatch that spouts a new Bible verse at you every day
365 Movement is seeking to make reading the Bible fashionable and fun with a verse-spouting wearable
Carbon3D: Amazing new 3D printing technique up to 100 times faster using light and oxygen
The CLIP 3D printing method grows objects from a pool of resin rather than layer-by-layer printing
California: DJI helicopter drone captures 4K video footage of 'UFO' hurtling across sky
A UFO flying over Silicon Valley in California almost collided with a DJI drone in broad daylight.
Argos trials 3D-printed silver and gold jewellery - but you can't try it on
Argos has launched a dedicated site for customisable 3D-printed rings, bracelets, cufflinks and pendants.
Chemistry revolution: 3D printer developed that can synthesise molecules from scratch
University of Illinois has developed a 3D printer to simplify chemical synthesis of small molecules.
Stop the Robots: Protesters descend on SXSW to campaign against artificial intelligence
Stop the Robots is a new organisation concerned about uncontrolled growth of artificial intelligence and robots.
Jamie Oliver website still serving malware to visitors a month after breach discovery
Malwarebytes identified malicious code on JamieOliver.com that continues to infect users' computers
Yahoo signals the end of the password by launching On-Demand service at SXSW
Yahoo's new sign-on method sends a time-sensitive code to your mobile number, removing the need for passwords
Mother's Day 2015: Tech gift ideas under £100
The Fitbit Flex, Kindle, selfie stick and Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 are among our top tech gift ideas
Windows 93: The joke operating system that lets you relive retro 32-bit computing
What if, between Windows 3.X and Windows 95, there was another OS, and it was full of retro memes?
Audi wants you to drive their cars to escape Amazon's scary drone delivery service
New Audi A6 ad is like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, only with helicopter drones
FREAK security bug does affect Windows users and spells trouble for unpatched cloud services
Many cloud services still have not patched the FREAK vulnerability, which affects lots of companies.
Isis Twitter account 'weeds': Up to 90,000 spreading jihadi propaganda in 2014
Pro-Islamic State Twitter suspensions have slowed the rate of accounts returning, but is it enough?
