Two British boffins in the running.

First challenger for Google Lunar X-Prize.

Machines approach Turing Test threshold.

Provided it generates $1bn return on investment.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is giving away a series of large cash prizes for the discovery of Mersenne prime number discoveries. A record breaking 12-million digit prime recently scored its finders a $100,000 cash prize.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

Machines approach Turing Test threshold.

Video playback, traffic info and coursework are the order of the day.

Prizes for best third-party tools.

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics has been given to three men behind fibre-optics and digital photography..

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The results for the latest week of our competition are in - we've picked 5 winners to receive a Belkin Rockstar.

The results for the latest week of our competition are in - we've picked 5 winners to receive a Belkin Rockstar.

Marc Abraham's Ignobel Prizes is the latest book in a series that seeks to highlight some of the strangest scientific research papers to be published. From the founder of the esteemed Annals of Improbable Research (www.improbable.com), the Ignobel Prizes award scientists for some truly bizarre work, including the research into dunking biscuits (see How to Dunk a Donut).

Samsung Euro Championship offers US$100,000 in prize money.

As you may be aware, we've been sorting through piles of worthy reader comments for the winners of our Mwave competition. It's been a big job, and here are the winners

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This monitor was physically identical in every way to the AOpen F75PS, aside from the Gigabyte badging on the front bezel. Both featured the same solid metal base, sturdy design and nifty sockets for plugs direct on the back, and there’s no prize for guessing that they performed identically in all of the tests we put them through.