The Internet of Things – tech developers’ dream future scenario where all our stuff, from our fridges to our cars, are online and communicating with each other – only continues to become more of a possibility for all of us, but it's bringing up a lot of concern about privacy in the process, especially the…

It may have been in the news lately for being divisive, but Uber really just wants to have some good publicity for a change bring people together. So tomorrow it's offering couples the chance to Uber their weddings. To celebrate Pride weekend in San Francisco, this Saturday anyone in the city who opens the app will…

iPhone 6 rumours are pretty much a weekly event at this point, but with September still painfully far away we’ll take any news or gossip we can get. We’ve had specs, we’ve had photos, but now we have this video from AliExpress via Japanese site MacOtakara, which appears to show an iPhone 6 back plate,…

Here’s something cute and potentially life-saving that also sounds just a little bit creepy, especially if you're a Margaret Atwood fan: scientists at Abertay University in Scotland have grown thousands of miniature hearts for medical research. Yes, thousands. The tiny tickers were grown from stem cells and measure 1mm across. They beat together in a…

A lot of people find that online accountability helps them stick to their goals: posting about their healthier diet, improved exercise habits, or debt reduction making them less likely to suddenly slip up and flop on the sofa mainlining Ben & Jerry’s while buying up half of ASOS. But not everyone in your network cares about…

A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has invented a sensor that can measure the size and duration of goosebumps on the skin. (Hey, everyone needs a hobby.) It's made from a small piece of thin, transparent stick-on polymer with a tiny conductive element. When its ability to store an…

What would you like to say to aliens? That might not be a rhetorical question: NASA really does plan to collect messages from members of the public that it'll send into space as some kind of intergalactic time capsule. (And who knows who or what might find them...) Next summer, NASA's New Horizons probe, which…

We all know that sinking feeling of opening a video that a friend has sent us because it’s "SO cute" or a "must-watch" and discovering that it’s five minutes long. (One of my relatives once sent me a 10-minute long music video that didn’t even have any words. I’ve got things to do here, people!)…

If you’ve ever joked that your phone feels like part of you, you were closer to the truth than you might have thought. According to a new study, our smartphones could be used to map our microbes. Scientists from the University of Oregon found that over 80% of the bacteria that makes up our personal…

When I saw that there's a new hearing aid for people who could already hear, I thought it sounded a little tasteless, to say the least. But then I learned it wasn’t some sick joke but a wearable gadget designed to make it easier to communicate in loud places or different parts of the house.…