A trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release last week with an alarming headline: "Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals." Are millions of kids really buying booze online? To arrive at that jarring headline, the group used some questionable logic to pump up results from a survey that was […]

Like so many things in life, being funny would seem to be something of a postcode lottery. However, a team of boffins has trawled the country to discover how different accents influence how comical we find a person.

Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? This simple question is splitting America apart, with a growing proportion thinking that we did not descend from an ancestral ape. A survey of 32 European countries, the US and Japan has revealed that only Turkey is less willing than […]

Online auction company eBay is facing an angry international mob of sellers who are protesting about new listing and fee structures to be introduced next week.

Being able to watch every music video created is almost just a mouse click away. YouTube, the closest thing to a cyber exchange and mart for videos, plans to allow its millions of users to download every music video - the good, the bad and the execrable - free.

Tim Dowling:  The morning begins with a blank screen. Actually, it starts with a warning from my computer that it - nay, we - are at considerable risk, because we don’t have any anti-viral software, even though we do. Then comes the AOL ad that I have had to endure every morning since I bought […]

The high-tech equivalent of an airport strip search is among the range of technologies Australian authorities are considering in the scientific fight against terrorism.

Australian salespeople are among the most honest in the world, or at least less prone to exaggeration than most.