Once again, Europe has had to bear the consequences of the years of alienation and separation of its large community of migrants. And, once again, we are witnessing the carnage brought about by young men lured down the road to ruin.

MOST games have rules, but few have laws. In fact, the only law gamers usually pay any attention to is that of Gordon Moore, who observed that the rate of internet trolls tends to double every two years (or maybe it was the number of transistors on a circuit). Gaming has traditionally been about winning or losing, not about law and order.

A POTENTIALLY groundbreaking 3D microchip developed by engineers at Intel in a decade-long process is being hailed as “revolutionary” and could lead to generations of advances in computing.

Challenging a basic tenet of the semiconductor industry, researchers at Hewlett-Packard have demonstrated a technology that could replace the transistor as the fundamental building block of all computers.

A US scientist has named an ant after Harrison Ford.