NoFlyZone: Startup aims to stop helicopter drones flying over private property and restricted areas
Database of locations where drones are not allowed to fly is being compiled for the drone industry
Salient Eye: Turn your spare Android smartphone into a free home security camera system
Salient Eye aims to disrupt the home security market by giving users a purpose for their old Android smartphones
US Navy unveils a humanoid robot firefighter to save the day on its warships
SAFFiR robot is fire-resistant and uses a camera that can see through smoke to assess damage.
Valentine's Day 2015: Tech gift ideas for him and her
Need help with Valentine's Day gift ideas? Here are the best discounts, deals and unusual tech gifts online
Silk Road 2.0: Alleged programmer auctioning user details and source code on black market
Sensitive user information from defunct underground drug marketplace being auctioned off
20 porn films 'hidden' on YouTube for months using random Irish language words
Full length pornographic films were disguised on YouTube using randomly translated Gaelic words.
Jeb Bush emails published online exposed private data of almost 300,000 Florida constituents
Jeb Bush's efforts at transparency have also exposed his constituents' data for the world to see
RapidShare shutting down: Pioneering file-sharing website deleting all data from 31 March
Controversial file-sharing website RapidShare to stop its cloud storage services from 31 March 2015 onwards.
Pirate Bay: Swedish prosecutors keen to seize two key domains
Swedish prosecutors want two Pirate Bay domains to be cancelled or placed under state control.
Megaupload programmer Andrus Nõmm arrested in US might have struck a plea bargain
A top executive who worked with Kim Dotcom on Megaupload has been arrested in the US.
Don't want your photo taken? Flashback anti-paparazzi reflective jacket ruins pictures
Celebrities and people who hate their photo being taken should try out the Flashback Photobomber Hoodie.
KeyMe iOS app can 3D print replicas of any key photographed, but is it safe?
New York start-up offers instant key replacements made from a photograph of a key
Facebook fail: Native Americans keep being accused of using fake names
Facebook's real name policy has gone into overdrive, refusing to recognise native American names
Uber's left part of its lost and found database online for anyone to see
Uber has left part of its internal Los Angeles office records available on a publically accessible website.
Pepper, meet Watson: IBM and Softbank team up to bring cognitive computing to Japan
IBM's supercomputer Watson could soon be the brains behind Softbank's social robot Pepper.
Yellowstone: Hot spring colour changed due to pennies thrown by people making wishes
The Morning Glory Pool has changed colour due to the coins being thrown into it.
Skin transplants from dead people can heal wounds faster
Researchers say that human cadaver skin that has had its cells removed can help skin wounds heal faster.
Third occurrence of world's rarest sea turtle washing up on UK beach in two months
A British man is keeping a dead Kemp's Ridley sea turtle in his freezer after finding it on a Devon beach.
Type 1 diabetes originates in the gut but probiotics could offer cure
Researchers say the gut is where the cause and cure for type 1 diabetes originates
Singapore: Flying helicopter drone waiters deployed to deliver food and drink to customers
Drones introduced in Timbre restaurants as a solution to manpower shortages and improving customer service
Israel: Biblical Libnah Iron Age settlement from Kingdom of Judah 'found' in Tel Burna
The fortified site is in Shephelah, the ancient borderland between Philistines and ancient Israel
US: Cornell University students invent insect-based tofu made from mealworms
University students have developed C-fu – a tofu substitute made from 100% mealworm meat.
Nasa's New Horizons probe beams back its first images of Pluto
In a birthday tribute to Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, researchers release photos taken by LORRI.
New Zealand: Geologists solve tectonic plate mystery by exploding rock
Geologists discovered a narrow, lubricating layer of rock that helps the Earth's tectonic plates shift.
E-cigarettes can increase risk of flu and pneumonia by compromising immune system
E-cig vapour compromised immune responses in mice and was found to contain free radical chemicals.
Isaac Newton understood how water defies gravity in plants 200 years before botanists
Isaac Newton proposed transpiration in a notebook during his undergraduate days, says researcher.
Earth's biggest gold hoard in South Africa was formed by ancient microbes
Researchers think the gold that washed up in the Witwatersrand basin came from microbes rather than sediment
World Cancer Day 2015: Terminally ill cancer patient cured by miracle drug Ipilimumab
Morgan Giles was told to put his affairs in order but four years later all his tumours have shrunk.
Eve: Meet the $1m robot scientist that is speeding up the search for new malaria drugs
Eve can be left alone to run experiments, analyse samples and compile reports for days.
Affordable holographic video displays are possible using surface acoustic waves
By manipulating light using surface acoustic waves, Star Wars 3D hologram images could now be possible
