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

A hydrogen car would have car enthusiasts excited, but the Riversimple urban car also has the tech community smiling; its detailed plans are totally open-source, making it the future Linux of automobiles

Open source malware now accounts for as much as 10% of the overall malware marketplace as criminals cotton onto the many benefits of adaptable code.

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

Less than a year after unveiling the Chrome web browser, Google has stepped up its battle against Microsoft with the announcement of the Google Chrome Operating System..

Simon Hackett's electric Tesla Roadster is making the most of its rapid recharge facility in Australia's Eco Challenge; as other challengers show off their fuel efficiency in the 3000km race.

Every day it gets hard and harder to keep up. Here is a list of 10 handy tools for increasing workplace efficiency.

Microsoft pulls a rabbit out of a hat with their new Natal Xbox motion controller, and we get flashbacks of Nintendo's Power Glove and shonky 90s virtual reality

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

A series of key Microsoft patents are reportedly on the verge of being sold to an open-source advocacy group..

Some big screen televisions let you disable any overscan or other distortion by enabling a feature called 1:1 pixel mapping. Here's why it will help you get a perfect picture

Crowd photos appearing in an offical Iranian newspaper appear to show uncanny signs of photoshopping

The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

The web site of open source organisation the Apache Software Foundation, was taken down yesterday after hackers compromised the SSH key for one of its servers.

Symantec claims to have found the public release of source code for a Trojan that targets Skype users..

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Intel has announced the official beta release of Moblin 2.0, the open-source operating system designed for netbooks.

Microsoft has announced that it is releasing more than 20,000 lines of code under the General Public Licence (GPL)..