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

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

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..

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

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