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The BBC have issued an apology for sparking terror fears with an explosion in Cardiff city centre during filming for Torchwood. The explosion was staged next to the Millennium Stadium in an old courtroom building. Because of the latest terrorist attacks i

The UK Open Source Consortium has complained to British regulators about the BBC's decision to use Microsoft DRM for its online TV offerings. No one is allowed to make Microsoft DRM players without permission from Microsoft, and the company tightly contro

Protestant British Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to meet Pope Benedict XVI before he leaves office next week in what media say involves his preparations for converting to Roman Catholicism.

Disney is to scrap the lucrative direct-to-DVD animated sequels that Steve Jobs once branded “embarrassing”, according to Yahoo News. Currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors, Jobs, a longtime Disney fan, is

SEATTLE (Reuters) -- Microsoft Corp. will unveil a coffee-table-shaped "surface computer" Wednesday in a major step towards co-founder Bill Gates's view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and

Apple says that starting from mid-June, Apple TV users will be able to automatically stream YouTube content onto their televisions. At present, Apple TV users can only access content stored in Apple's iTunes music and video library system. The move may ra

Reader palewook points out that the UK Guardian sets this story straight: "But there isn't any way it would be axed even if [Davies] left. He loves the show and he does feel that maybe it would benefit from some new blood."

THE former prime minister Paul Keating believes Australia should abandon Canberra as the capital and move Parliament to Garden Island in Sydney.

Owners of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld console will soon be able to make voice and video calls over a wireless internet connection.

The ABC Island inside virtual reality world Second Life has been vandalised. The 'griefing' (or virtual act of vandalism) was first reported this morning by members of the ABC Friends community, a group of Second Life residents who have been instrumental

A Darth Vader mask has been tendered as evidence as the Darwin Magistrates Court hears charges against Lord Mayor Peter Adamson. Adamson has pleaded not guilty to four charges including stealing and obtaining goods by deception.

C.H.U.D. reported yet another rumor about the upcoming fourth Indiana Jones movie: That original Indy love interest Karen Allen will return as Marion Ravenwood—and (spoiler!) that she will be revealed as the mother of Shia LaBeouf's character. Allen pla

A couple of interesting rumours surfaced yesterday over at AICN about the casting of Zack Snyders ‘Watchmen’ adaptation. Patrick Wilson star of ‘Little Children’ and ‘Hard Candy’ might be cast in the ‘Night Owl’ role… an interesting choi

MEMORY FIRM, Kingston Technology claims it is first to market with its new ultra low-latency DDR2 800MHz 3-3-3 HyperX memory modules. Kingstoin says the new modules are the fastest performing memory available, and will excite gamers without them having to

Fujitsu just announced a world's first H.264 chip capable of encoding/decoding 1920 x 1080 (60i/50i) video in real time. The chip features 256MB of onboard FCRAM and ultra low 750mW power draw when encoding video. That means lickity quick, MPEG-2 quality

Even the old mainframe strongholds, the financial markets, are moving away from big iron. The New York Stock Exchange is one of them, as it's leaving the mainframe for AIX and Linux. They're doing it to save money; it seems that transactions are going to

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico (AP) -- A rocket payload that flew briefly into space with ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and "Star Trek" actor James Doohan was recovered Friday in the New Mexico mountains. The payload was found in its designated

Ernest Dickerson (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight) is set to direct The Un-Dead, a new chapter to the canon of Bram Stoker's Dracula that has been endorsed by the author's family, Variety reported. The film will be based on a novel written by Stoker's

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming up to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi's beloved Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin for DreamWorks, Variety reported. The trilogy will be produced in full digital 3-D using pe

HALO 3 has officially been given a release date of September 25. Well, that's if you're in North America, at least - European citizens will have to wait a pointless extra day until September 26. Go figure.

LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- The clock on "24" will keep ticking for two more seasons. Fox's unusually late renewal for the Emmy-winning thriller will allow Jack Bauer to keep saving the day through the 2008-09 season, which will be the

Elgato Systems announces the Turbo.264: a hardware encoder in USB stick format that converts video files to the H.264 (MP4) format for iPod, Apple TV, and Sony PSP. Turbo.264 accelerates exports by a factor of 4 on an Intel Core 2 Duo up to a factor of 10

It's no surprise to Trekkies that James "Scotty" Doohan's final wish be that his ashes be launched into space. Apparently Space Services Inc., the company tasked with the "memorial spaceflight" gave her everything they got, cap'n, but the rocket carrying

"Many ICQ users woke up and found their ICQ numbers were no longer working. There is a topic on the ICQ support with more than 1,500 replies. There are pages upon pages of other topics asking what happened. As of yet, there has been no official response f

After much talk and posturing over the future of "The Terminator" franchise in recent years, something surprising has happened - producers Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna have given up their baby. The Halcyon Co. has acquired the franchise rights to the popul

George Lucas revealed to Fox411.com that he's thinking of making two new hourlong live-action Star Wars TV films. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he told the site. "They will be other people of that milieu." The two ex

Spider-Man will return for at least three more movies, its studio has said after the super-hero's third film broke North American box office records. Sony Pictures chief executive Michael Lynton told the BBC: "Everybody has every intention of making a fou

ABC has agreed to let the producers of Lost set an expiration date for the series: three years in the future, Variety reported. The series will wrap after the production of 48 additional episodes that will be divided into three, shortened 16-episode seaso