Into Tech

Film director Terry Gilliam will get a lifetime achievement award at the Fantastic Film Festival in Amsterdam.

ITV and Setanta are set to pick up the rights to show the FA Cup and England home internationals.

Top Gear host Richard Hammond is to present music-based Bank Holiday shows on BBC Radio 2.

The last play is to be performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre before it closes for a £100m redevelopment.

Coronation Street star Bill Roache is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Chester.

Controversial cartoon series South Park shows the Queen committing suicide in a show broadcast in the US.

Michael Jackson is not in hospital and is recovering from cold or flu at home, his spokeswoman says.

Pop star Britney Spears agrees a divorce settlement with her estranged husband Kevin Federline.

The owner of TK Maxx says hackers have stolen details from 45 million credit and debit cards used by shoppers.

By the end of 2008, more than 600,000 cigarette vending
machines across Japan — where most teenagers get their smokes
– will be installed with an electronic age-verification
device.

We won’t deny that Bioscpyt’s new 3D cam is a little scary-looking, but considering its the first 3D face recognition camera, we’ll cut it some slack. Relying on 40,000 different ID points, the VisionAccess 3D DeskCam uses parts of your forehead, eye sockets …

LONDON (Reuters) - The telecoms regulator on Thursday
ordered Internet telephone service providers to explain to
customers upfront the limitations of their services as it
unveiled a new set of rules to regulate the fast-growing
sector.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc. is throwing its weight
behind the music industry’s efforts to protect the album format
by allowing fans to buy complete digital albums without having
to pay again for songs they already own.

LONDON (Reuters) - Thinking of sending your band’s demo CD
to a music label in the hope of landing a deal? Don’t try
SonyBMG, who want to sample your music online instead.

3D movies have been around for a while, and now the bigwigs in Hollywood are toying with the idea of going all 3D in the future. According to Regal Entertainment’s CEO, audiences are willing to pay premium ticket prices if the movies they …

LISBON (Reuters) - The U.S.-based Internet governing body
rejected a proposal on Friday to create an adults-only zone on
the internet, or a .XXX domain.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian blogs have published amateur
video footage purporting to show ballot stuffing and vote fraud
in a nationwide referendum on constitutional amendments which
opposition groups say was rigged.

hResearchers at the University of Oslo have developed a computer that evolves on its own using genetic algorithms to boost performance. See?

What their hardware does is par up “genes” in the hardware to find the hardware design that is the …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican cell phone operator America
Movil said on Friday it has bought 100 percent of
Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico, a leading telecommunications
services provider on the island.

BBC TV and radio programmes will be available on a trio of mobile phone networks for a trial period.