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We are in the most hated season of the year – the Income Tax season. The season of recurring nightmares involving receipts, forms, strange numerals, long explanations and conflicting interpretations of the phrase ‘tax deduction’. Apparently, children, pets,...

TOKYO China has jumped to the front ranks of the supercomputing powers with the new Sunway TaihuLight, powered by domestically developed chips. It was recently crowned the fastest computer in the world. In its debut on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest...

Stories by children about the perils of reality TV judging, dementia and a bloodthirsty pig are among the winners of this year’s 500 Words Now in its sixth year, the BBC Radio 2 contest challenges under-13s to write a story about any fictional topic.Winners...

On the 20th anniversary of the birth of Dolly, the first cloned sheep, a reader asks: Don’t all sheep look alike anyway? Could anyone tell Dolly, Daisy, Diana, Debbie and Denise apart from members of the sheep population that weren’t cloned? Wouldn’t it have...

Go back a couple of years and Samsung was THE dominant force in the Android market. While on the whole the company hasn’t exactly been in trouble since then (sales of its flagship and non-flagship devices in total have been more than adequate to keep it in...

With the latest VMworld event kicking off in Las Vegas, end user computing giant VMware came prepared with a litany of news releases. Yet the news was more of an update than anything completely new; an extension of the company’s hybrid cloud strategy, as well...

From Mike Burnick: Earnings season is pretty much in the books, as 98% of S&P 500 companies have already reported second-quarter numbers.The results: Profits declined 3.2% overall for the index. That’s the fifth quarter in a row of falling profits....

New digital creative apprenticeship scheme will crowd fund bursary to send student to SXSW One aspiring digital creative can win a dream apprenticeship with the ultimate prize of attending the biggest festival of its kind – the world famous annual conglomerate...