The Silicon Valley race to build a self-driving car may revolve around one simple question: To map or not to map.

USA: A watch collector spotted a rare Swiss timepiece in a Phoenix second-hand store, bought it on sale for $5.99 (€5.27) and then sold it for $35,000 (€30,700).

Print out your treasured photos or risk losing them as digital technology could turn the 21st century into a new dark age lost to history, a leading internet pioneer has warned.

With the economy on the up, it’s never been a better time to ask for a pay increase. But lack of confidence holds many women back, says Ailin Quinlan.

The world still isn’t close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report says. That’s despite some nations’ recent pledges to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions.

The world is still not even close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report has said.

The notion of being fashionably smart is getting a makeover, as internet-linked computers get woven into formerly brainless attire such as glasses, bracelets and shoes.

Boeing has halted deliveries of new 787s to customers until its electrical system is fixed.

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.

A lot can be said in 140 characters but, according to new research, a quarter of people aren’t paying attention to most of it.

‘DOWN came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away’ runs the nursery rhyme.

IT WAS a bad week for the economy in more ways than one.

Astronauts today gave the space shuttle a four-and-a-half hour inspection using cameras on the orbiter’s robotic arm early to see if its heat shield was damaged by a mysterious object that apparently floated off the spacecraft.

American Edward C Prescott and Norwegian Finn E Kydland won this year’s Nobel prize in economics for their work in identifying the driving forces behind business cycles.

The Pentagon is revving up a two-wheeled scooter in a plan to develop battlefield robots that think for themselves and communicate with troops.

WHILE recuperating from an assassination attempt in 1981, President Reagan wrote a heartfelt four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, asking if they could work together to reduce the tensions between their nations, according to a new book about Reagan’s letters.

NASA was warned nine years ago that the space shuttle could fail catastrophically if debris hit the vulnerable underside of its wings during lift-off the very scenario that may have brought down Columbia.

A small meteorite or piece of man-made space junk may have struck the Columbia shuttle while it was still in orbit causing it to crash on its return to earth, Nasa said today.

A GROUP of scientists who set out to build a robot with human social skills may have improved on humanity - their creation courteously steps aside for people, smiles during conversation and politely asks directions.

A US Government-backed research group is issuing a warning about a major internet security flaw.

The identification process on remains of those killed in the World Trade Centre attacks is continuing as more rubble is pulled from Ground Zero.