The US government has been willing to loosen its grip on satellite data but what about the info from other countries? Don’t worry that’s opening up as well. Russia has declared that the Earth-sensing data it collects from civilian satellites is now…

Your humble narrator doesn’t review too many gadgets so it’s always a treat when one hits the How Would You Change timetable. In my mind the BlackBerry Q5 was the company’s most important new device simply because it would show if BlackBerry could …

Controversial Sony film The Interview becomes the studio’s most downloaded film ever just four days after its release online.

Aphex Twin (aka Richard James) is known for creating original complex sounds whenever he can but his next creation might just take the cake. He tells Groove that he hired a programmer to develop music software based on mutation. Once you give the a…

Facebook has apologised over its Year in Review feature after some users complained about the images chosen to sum up their 2014.

After a very public admonition by President Barack Obama Sony Pictures released The Interview to Google Play YouTube the PlayStation and Xbox stores and now iTunes to say nothing of over 300 independent theaters across the United States in time f…

Hacker Jan Krissler claims to have cloned the fingerprint of a German politician using standard photographs taken at an event.

Rory Cellan-Jones looks back at the big technology trends of 2014.

When you’re the central bank in charge of determining interest rates for millions of UK inhabitants being able to predict economic trends is of paramount importance. To do this the Bank of England has numerous tools at its disposal but research of…

The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese’s true-life tale of corrupt New York stockbrokers leads the pack of the most illegally downloaded movies of 2014.