(Updated 11/6/09): iPhone makers Apple have introduced the new iPhone 3G S (the S stands for "Speed") - described as the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. As predicted, they've also dropped the price of the current model to $99 in the US - expect similar reductions elsewhere - but it will cost an arm and a leg for exisiting iPhone users to upgrade in both the US and the UK.

If you thought it was hard to recognize real people online already, then it's going to get worse in the future, because advances in technology will soon make it really hard to spot a human - even on video.

Innovation is alive and well among a fresh generation of graduate entrepreneurs, in the shape of a new product that may put an end to sleepless nights called LightSleeper, designed by Kate Evans, a graduate from the Wirral.

A physicist at Britain's Lancaster University has been given a Royal Society award to support his work exploring next-generation computer memory.

The new express steam locomotive Tornado has just arrived on the West Somerset Railway and will be working trains on the line for two weeks. This beautiful and impressive engine can now be viewed live, thanks to specially installed video streaming supplied by web innovations company Finetra via www.checkitlive.com

Could the BBC's iPlayer go global? Various media have picked up on a report in Friday's Daily Telegraph that Google, owners of YouTube, is said to be in talks about the possibility of an international version of the popular catch-up TV service.

The European Commission has confirmed that it is to launch an inquiry into the digitalisation of millions of books by Google, without the permission of their rights holders, to see whether the European Union should protect authors and publishers.

A new ipadio application for the iPhone that enables people to broadcast live to the internet from any phone, anywhere, went into the Apple iphone apps store this bank holiday weekend.

Reports that the Global Satellite System (GPS), overseen by the US Air Force, could fail by 2010 is worrying, but whilst Stolen Vehicle Recovery company Tracker believes it is highly unlikely that it will happen, it is ready should the system fail.

Super soldiers, HyperSpace DVDs, space junk destroying machines and a new solar powered mobile caught our eyepieces in the weirdandbeard office this morning...