With IT professionals and users regularly venting frustrations about them, one might wonder why passwords have endured for so long. It turns out the ageing security measure is not so easily replaced

We may be leaving it later to have children, but our biological clocks wait for no one, making the need for breakthroughs in fertility treatment more urgent than ever

Animal farming is destroying the planet faster than any other pollution source. Plant-based meat substitutes may have arrived just in time to avert disaster

Electric carmaker Tesla are set to equip all new vehicles with self-driving hardware

Microsoft has announced it has developed speech recognition software that is as accurate as a professional transcriptionist

For the eighth straight quarter, global PC sales have fallen – the longest duration of decline in the history of the computer

As reports flood in of replacement Galaxy Note 7s still catching fire, Samsung is temporarily halting the production of its flagship phablet

The iFoodbag can store chilled and frozen goods for up to 24 hours, thanks to its patented smart fibre-composite material

A trio of chemists have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of machines able to work on a molecular level

Mobile phones with keypads now seem like a distant memory. Flat phones could soon follow suit, with bendable touch interfaces a reality thanks to Canatu

With an impressive device range in the pipeline, Google is taking the fight to Apple, Amazon and Samsung, vying to become a household name for hardware as well as software

Facial recognition technology will allow customers to complete payments without the need for passwords or PINs