Researchers from the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) have developed a printer that can print 10 meters of flexible solar cells a minute. Unlike traditional silicon ... (more)

With Firefox 22 now in beta Mozilla has decided not to enable its new third-party cookie-blocking feature by default. The feature, aimed at preventing cross-site tracking of browser ... (more)

The Linux Mint project yesterday unveiled version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new ... (more)

Valentin Boanta, sitting in his jail cell, proudly explains the device he has invented which, he says, could make the world's ATMs impregnable even to tech-savvy criminals like himself. Boanta, ... (more)

A large-scale analysis of BItTorrent file-sharing of videogames has shown that the number of illicit digital copies is not as high as reported by industry trade organisations. Anders ... (more)

The Motion Picture Association of America is optimistic that you'll check their website to ensure the site you're using is accessing content legally. So for the Ned Flanders out there ... (more)

Chalk this one up as a mildly embarrassing coincidence for the company leading the fight to uncover, and punish, online copyright infringement in Canada. The Montreal-based company ... (more)

Announced at the search giant’s I/O conference in San Francisco, the service was described as “Radio without rules”, and focuses on music discovery. Users will be able to click ... (more)

Now that Aereo experienced victories in the form of beating back a preliminary injunction and affirming the ruling at an appeals court, the digital upstart is looking to score the ultimate ... (more)

Just about everyone wishes they were better at math. But studying and practicing is so difficult and boring that very few people do it. If only there were an easier way. Now there ... (more)

The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some ... (more)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court today to stop a copyright troll's shakedown scheme in a case linked to the notorious Prenda Law firm. The plaintiff ... (more)

The internet giant Google has been challenged by MPs over the way it reports its income for tax. The chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge, said whistleblowers had ... (more)

Nintendo will profit from videos uploaded by fans that feature its games, the company has confirmed. Clips posted to YouTube will now display advertising, with income going directly ... (more)

The plucky little Mars rover Opportunity has proven itself to be the Marco Polo of space. This extraterrestrial robot has set the new record for miles explored by a NASA vehicle in ... (more)

When Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's home was raided in January 2012, US authorities were hoping they'd see him stateside, in court, pretty quickly. It hasn't worked out that way. Dotcom ... (more)

Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, but he's known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where he maintains a running list of ... (more)

The pilot phase of Google Glass is barely off the ground, but the Chocolate Factory's high-tech specs have already drawn the scrutiny of the US Congress over concerns that they could ... (more)

Three members of the hacktivist group LulzSec have been sentenced to a total of six years in prison. Members Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa al-Bassam had been charged with ... (more)

Today security firm F-Secure announces the discovery of a new Mac-based spyware program, the latest in what has become a small, but growing trend. Attacks have previously affected Apple ... (more)

Very few experiments have changed the way we perceive our Universe, but the Kepler exoplanet survey telescope is one such example. Simply by monitoring a single patch of the sky continuously, ... (more)

Wired has obtained a copy of a cease and desist letter sent by Google to Microsoft today, demanding Microsoft immediately remove the YouTube app from its Windows Phone Store and disable ... (more)

Valve has announced that Steam Trading Cards, which you can use to earn Steam coupons, emoticons for your Steam profile, profile backgrounds, game badges and more, is currently in beta. ... (more)

A federal judge last week took aim at "reverse class action lawsuits" while dismissing a Los Angeles-based movie company's lawsuit that claimed dozens of Jackson County "John Doe" defendants ... (more)

Consumers lost an average of $1,800 last year in Internet crimes and a total of $535 million overall, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center's (IC3) annual report on consumer ... (more)

Web browsers are one of the main ways that malware finds its way onto your machine. Tests carried out by NSS Labs looked at the five major players, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and ... (more)

For years, the Linux operating system has contained a high-severity vulnerability that gives untrusted users with restricted accounts nearly unfettered "root" access over machines, ... (more)

A Florida woman is seeking more than $5 million from Apple on behalf of thousands of iPhone owners who allegedly bought phones with defective power buttons that would not lock or turn ... (more)

Google will unveil new subscription music services tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Google I/O conference, sources close to the company said. Google has now signed separate licensing deals ... (more)

Massive lawsuits targeting people who illegally download copyrighted content are common in the U.S., where people have been stuck with hefty fines and out-of-court settlements. Now ... (more)