If you want further reassurance of the continued validity of reading as a past pastime, read on for a pick of some of the outstanding sci-fi and fantasy offerings that have been claiming a space on our Kindle and tablets of late. FULL STORY >

Dell's 14z Windows 8 ultrabook may not sport a touchscreen, but it does offer some great all round general performance, as well as a few surprises up its sleeve. FULL STORY >

You'll never come close to going through all the apps in Apple's App Store. TechSmart finds the best free apps that the App Store has to offer. FULL STORY >

Nintendo has announced a new family friendly portable console in its arsenal, the 2DS. FULL STORY >

Acer’s Aspire R7 typifies the latest PC trend towards notebooks that twist themselves into a variety of form factors, in a quest to be both novel and useful. FULL STORY >

Radically thin, supremely strong, scratch resistant and easy to clean: White Gorilla® Glass 2 makes the beauty of the 13.3" Aspire S7 Series gleam at an ultra-thin 11.9 mm. The 11.6" model, with its sleek aluminum unibody, is just 12.2 mm slim. Either Ultrabook™... FULL STORY >

This week in the Gaming News Round-up: GTA V hijacks MMO gamers’ attention, whilst PES 2014 shows some heart in its latest gameplay trailer. FULL STORY >

The Pirate Bay’s anti-censorship browser, the PirateBrowser, has garnered a substantial 100 000 downloads in the four days since it set sail. FULL STORY >

Babies reading faces, electrical spider webs, and our amazing ability to throw things, all feature in this month's SciNews. FULL STORY >

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World War Z is like four zombie films rolled into one disaster movie. Movie fundi, Spling, investigates whether it will make the living dead, or the dead living. FULL STORY >

They said it couldn't be done. They were wrong. Who are 'they'? Who cares... Despicable Me 2 is even better than the first one. Movie fundie Spling reviews Steve Carell's latest. FULL STORY >

A crowd-funding drive is underway to develop Heml.is, a messaging app that its founders claim will offer unbreakable levels of privacy. FULL STORY >

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Monster takes on former audio partner Beats by Dr Dre's Executive headphones via its Inspiration over-the-ears headphones. FULL STORY >