Life would be easier if we didn’t have to patch our operating systems and apps. Patrick Gray explores the real reasons why updating is important.

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.

Want to kick your website up a notch? Jacinta Thomler gives you 10 ways to make your site stand out.

Intel unloaded a swag of new Penryn-class CPUs at CES today. Zara Baxter explores the new platform and what it means for your PC.

The research thats being done now is often aimed at exploring the mental space that brains operate in without necessarily trying to duplicate the way they work. At the Free University of Brussels and

The other alternative camp of AI research that sprang up in the 1980s decided that the whole idea of high level abstract intelligence and complex models of the world was a bad idea - or at least too a

Few topics are more controversial than genetic engineering, yet considerable amounts of research dollars are being poured into the area every year. Right now, genetically engineered plants are

What happens when multiple-core processors are no longer sufficient for our demands? Stuart Andrews looks at the future of CPUs.

Earlier walking robots had a more serious side: to discover more about the human brain. Shakey, for example, emerged from the Stanford Research Institute (now SRIs artificial intelligence centre) in 1

Is it possible to run all your electronic gadgets - even your laptop - on renewable energy sources? PC Authority's eco-warrior Matthew Sparkes gets on his bike.

PC Authority gets time with the Blackberry Curve 8310, using Vodafone’s Australian GPS mapping software.

From all of the research, projects and general progress mentioned above, youre probably wondering what stops the unification of all the work so far into a coherent plastic pal whos fun to be with. Wha

Raw computational power is being brought to bear on every stage of genome research from the moment the biologists tip their goo into a sequencing machine...

Online merchants are consciously and consistently raising their prices, argues Mike May, an e-commerce analyst at research company Jupiter Communications. Many of these companies have run out o

PC Authority speaks to Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian king of security software about cutting-edge programming, cyber criminals, pinball, and life in Moscow.

Internet supercomputing is in its infancy, but it holds a lot of potential for the future of computers and science...

If you have a small business (three employees or less) and you really want to limit what you spend on software and implementation, and you havent bought software yet, look at Quickbooks first. It is t

Although the future for polymer electronics looks bright, theres inevitably a cloud on the horizon. Its to do with size. While there would be some definite advantages in making computer chips out of p

The work of McCulloch and Pitts was critically important in changing our conception of the brain. They made it possible to think of the brain as a network of interacting cells that could be analysed l