Robotic devices that detect not only being touched but also where and how much force was applied are being developed by researchers in the US and the UK.

Now that Google has completed its acquisition of video compression outfit On2 Technologies, a representative of the Free Software Foundation has urged Mountain View to release On2's latest codec under an irrevocable free license and use it to replace Adobe Flash on YouTube.

Apple has been urged to provide more specific guidelines on suitable content for iPhone applications after it pulled one that had apparently been downloaded by nearly a million people.

A suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit.

See the winners of the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

Eric Schmidt has claimed that Google does not want to turn the world's wireless carriers into "dumb data pipes.

A pan-European team of robotics researchers began a project this year that could see humanoid bots interact with groups of people in a realistic, anthropomorphic way, for the first time.

I feel sure you will find the appropriate way to express your love on Valentine's Day. Maybe you will take your love to dinner. You will buy flowers. You might get a card or lingerie. Perhaps you will even seek out some revolutionary bondage gear. However, I feel sure that not many of you will choose to offer your love a video game experience.

Shedding China's shackles on free speech is proving to be easier said than done for Google Inc. The Internet search leader is still censoring its results in China a month after Google's leaders took a public stand against Chinese laws that require the removal of links to Web sites that the government deems subversive or offensive.

Powering the Olympics, which get under way Friday, requires more than 5,000 kilometers of cabling, 6,000 computers, and a willingness to break with tradition.