With electric cars destined to cost significantly more than regular vehicles, electric bikes and motorcycles may provide the world's best short term answer to weening ourselves off oil

We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill. This week, more companies trying netbooks, crazy takeover rumours, Apple cutting prices, and a PSP redesign.

Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

We list the world’s 10 most annoying viral marketing campaigns; the one’s that had you wondering ‘WHAT THE!?' from the moment they popped up in your inbox or clicked on them in YouTube.

One of the universe's greatest secrets may soon have its picture taken, thanks to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which can record 3,200 megapixel images

The hot little seller makes the big leap from Linux to XP, with a small price jump.

Card skimming and online fraudsters are costing Australians over $120m a year, but there is hope say experts. We've got some tips on how to navigate your local ATM and what to look out for.

According to a UK interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, companies that use Twitter accounts may soon find themselves having to pay for the privilege, as new revenue streams become increasingly important in the fragile economy.

Two chips for two different audiences. One for the lucky ducks in the USA – WiMAX enabled. For us Aussies, it’s going to launch initially without the WiMAX advantage.

Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

The 3000km race outback race from Darwin to Adelaide will feature a number of green vehicles, but none as high profile as Internode CEO Simon Hackett's Tesla all-electric machine

A Toyota executive says lithium battery costs are hurting electric car development and names fuel cells as the way of the future, dismissing electric plug-in models entirely. Are Fuel cells really the way?

The British Government has been trialing an unusual program designed to keep tabs on problem families by installing CCTV cameras in 2000 homes, and plans for 20,000 more on the way.

London based Stephan Wolfram has unveiled a search engine that wants to out-search Google by using the power of math to answer your questions.