After a string of leaks and rumors, Google has announced the Nexus S smartphone today. The device runs on a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor, which is the same CPU as found on the Galaxy S, and features a contoured display. Along with WiFi, Bluetooth, accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS, proximity sensor, digital compass, light sensor, 512 MB RAM, and 16 GB of internal memory.

A Chinese high-speed train broke a world record for fastest unmodified commercial train, reaching speeds of up to 298.9 mph

Just a few years ago, parents and gamers alike were lining up in the dark for a chance to snag the impossible-to-find Wii at their local Target or Toys 'R Us. Nowadays, walking into a store to scoop up a Wii is a cakewalk; good luck finding an Xbox Kinect motion-control camera, though.

Take a tour of the automotive lab where professors, students, and industry partners come together to build projects like Stanley the self-driving SUV and the Pikes Peak Audi.

PS3 owners could soon embrace 'holographic' gaming after comments made by a SCEE exec suggested the company is working on the technology for its flagship console.

If a Facebook picture is worth a thousand words, we're pretty sure there's one word in the lexicon you'd be loath to have associated with you: tool.

We offer our unscientific list of the biggest mistakes and bad ideas of the last year, from the Kin to Mark Hurd to several flaps involving the iPhone.

Apple says people snapped up more than 450,000 copies of Beatles albums plus two million individual songs during the Fab Four's first week on sale through iTunes.

Three conducted research which showed that 31% of Brits plan to buy amazing gadgets like a tablet, a Sony PlayStation PSP or an Amazon Kindle this Christmas with 60% already having a mobile gadget of their own. In response to the survey which also showed that an increasing number of people are using their mobile tech to go online and therefore need a stable 3G connection, Three is throwing their Human Hotspots in the fray.

Dairy farming has been given a technological make-over by the Lely Astronaut A4, a cow-milking robot that aims to make the milking process as stress-free as possible.