Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Swedish court in 2009 for promoting copyright infringement. He was detained in Phnom Penh last week. ...

As the spacecraft Voyager 1 explores the furthest fringes of our solar system, incredible images of the Earth have been beamed back from a camera on board the probe. ...

The Mars rover Curiosity is indulging in a flurry of multimedia activity ahead of its science mission proper. It sent the first image from its 100mm telephoto lens, already spotting an intriguing geological "unconformity". Nasa also released a colour panorama of Mount Sharp, the rover's ultimate goal. [caption id="attachment_12410" align="aligncenter" width="500"] This image is from a test series used to ch ...

Joel Tenenbaum must pay $675,000 (£426,000) in damages awarded to the major US music labels after his request for a retrial was turned down. Mr Tenenbaum, 25, was found guilty of illegally downloading and distributing 31 songs in 2007. ...

Astronomers have found evidence for a planet being devoured by its star, yielding insights into the fate that will befall Earth in billions of years. ...

A hypersonic aircraft launched by the Air Force Tuesday spiraled out of control and was destroyed before it could reach its goal of speeding to 4,600 mph, Pentagon officials said Wednesday ...

The new software will allow Curiosity to make longer drives by giving the rover more autonomy to identify and avoid potential hazards and to drive along a safe path that the rover identifies for itself. ...

Money farmers make a living by building up huge reserves of the virtual currencies used in popular games. They then sell this for real cash in the game, if possible, or on grey markets if there is no in-game auction house. ...

Three employees of China's main search engine, Baidu, have been arrested on suspicion of having accepted bribes to delete posts from its forum service. The web giant fired the three, along with a fourth person who was not arrested. Baidu's spokeswoman, Betty Tian, said the sums involved amounted to "tens of thousands of yuan" (thousands of dollars). It is not known which posts were deleted. "Baidu has alway ...

Marcinanis said that he kept the password to her account and logged her in each time himself, but he appears to have allowed her to surf the web on her own, which is when she befriended the pervert. ...