The Star Trek Tricorder, a device that allows medics to check their patients in the field in the sci-fi TV show, took a step closer to becoming reality today thanks to a new device being shown off by General Electric in the US.

The device,...

General Electric has revealed a "breakthrough in digital storage technology" that could mean 500GB discs will be available soon.

That kind of capacity - said to be the equivalent of 100 DVDs - makes the supposedly next-gen Blu-ray disc's...

Google is the top of an international ranking of "power brands" for the second consecutive year.

Millward Brown has published its annual BrandZ Top 100 ranking; and says that Google has a brand value of $86.1 billion (around £43.2 billion).