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.

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

Want to know what's really going on in the world of internet security? Post your questions for one of the world's most well-known figures in data security, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab

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

Academic project to solve "humanity's grand challenges" sounds like sci-fi fans dream with classes on AI, robotics, cognitive computing and biotech

An annual hacking conference in Canada is offering enterprising hackers $10,000 in cash and phone prizes for finding vulnerabilities in smartphones such as the iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

Once again we are running our annual reader awards, where you get to tell us about the technology you own, rate the brands, and let us know who's let you down.

Thanks to advances in nanotechnology, the future diagnosis of disease may be as simple as using a small, inexpensive, handheld gadget

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

Search giant launches competition to prop up struggling encyclopaedia.

Over half a million credit card holders may have had their account details captured by hackers, after web hosting firm Network Solutionsrevealed that more than 4,000 of the e-commerce sites it hosts could have been breached..

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.

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

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

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

Microsoft has opened its Windows Marketplace for Mobile app store to developers, and as an incentive is offering prizes for the most popular apps submitted

Not unlike the MySpace credit card in the US, the MySpace recharge app will reward Aussie MySpace users for charging up their mobiles with a range of prizes and promotional giveaways.