Want to know the effect of a nuclear bomb on your home town? There's an app for that   Since the end of the Cold War more than 20 years ago, the prospect of nuclear Armageddon has gradually faded from the popular consciousness. But with approximately 23,000 nuclear warheads st...

   Organised crime agency shuts down 'RnBXclusive.com' - warning on pirate site threatens users with up to 10 years in jail Site used by two million people a month Offered links to music by artists such as Sean Paul Estimated to cost music industry £15 million a yea...

  New Spotify app offers streamed music that sounds better than songs bought from iTunes     Spotify playlist: The new 'Extreme' streams offer extremely high audio quality, higher than songs purchased from iTunes store The latest version of Spotify's mobile app offe...

 US singer and actress Whitney Houston dies aged 48     Whitney Houston 1963-2012 American singer and actress Whitney Houston has died in Los Angeles at the age of 48. Police said she died in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she had been staying a...

 Brazil first country to try and use Twitter's new censorship policy to silence its citizens     Enlarge Brazil's government could be the first to use Twitter's per-country censorship policy to 'silence' its own citizens. Free speech groups are watching to see which governme...

 'To take it down, you have to take down the internet': New file-sharing technology is IMMUNE to government attacks Government attempts to knock out file-sharing sites in the battle against music and film piracy could be doomed. A new file-sharing software called Tribler cannot be knock...

 BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good BTjunkie, one of the largest BitTorrent indexes on the Internet, has decided to shut down voluntarily today. A combination of legal actions against fellow file-sharing sites and time-consuming projects have led to the drastic decision ...

  'Deleted' Facebook photos still viewable THREE YEARS later Photos still visible to anyone with a link Can persist on site for up to three years, users report 'New system' coming, promises Facebook   Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook: Site users claim th...

Virtual reality contact lenses that beam images directly into your eyes could be on sale in 2014 Equivalent to a 240-inch 3D television from 10 feet Can layer 'augmented reality' information over world Company also working with U.S. army   Contact lenses which focus 3D screens ...

The 10 Most Pirated Movies of All Time [Infographic]    Infographics are a dime a dozen nowadays, as the world figured out that if you want modern society to read things, they have to be splashy  and colorful, or be about adolescent wizards. This infographic falls into the form...