Computer mouse celebrates its 40th birthday this week. The device was invented by Douglas Engelbart and his team at Stanford Research Institute, and was introduced to the public in a demostration on December 9, 1968.

No more spy shots. What we have here are the first official 2010 Mercedes E-Class photos, that somehow “leaked” to the German web and now you can see them here.

Al Gore is still enough of a celebrity that I still bother to care that he met with Obama and Biden. The topic of the discussion was obviously energy and climate change. Al Gore and Obama seem to disagree on one issue being clean coal. Biden also...

Apple has noted that they have reached the 300 million download milestone for the App Store, almost five months after the store went live. Despite being a large number, a deeper look shows that growth has flattened.

The BJP on Monday conceded defeat in the Delhi assembly elections and said that the electorate had given a “clear vote in favour of the Congress”. “It is a clear victory for the Congress in Delhi,” Arun Jaitley, BJP general secretary, who is...

AN Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after IVF treatment, local media reports. Rajo Devi, who married 50 years ago, gave birth to a baby girl on November 28 after in vitro fertilisation, said Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at...

Crude oil fell for a sixth day, heading for the biggest weekly drop since the Persian Gulf War in 1991, on concern demand will decline after a report showed U.S. employers cut jobs in November at the fastest pace since 1974.

The occasionally acrimonious debate about the planet’s climate has been missing a key component: accurate measurements of how much carbon dioxide is in the air and how it is being recycled by Earth.

Power companies are under increasing pressure to pass on the benefit of the plummeting price of oil. Watchdogs are angry that domestic energy bills have continued to rise sharply since the summer even though wholesale prices have nearly...

The world’s first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, has been unveiled. Although at £4,000 it is beyond the reach of most consumers, the high-performance processor could become invaluable to universities and...