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Meme researchers may be studying what people are doing when they're messing around, but they're not messing around themselves.

Memes: Take a look at miaow

What links silly cat pictures and Richard Dawkins? Jean Hannah Edelstein meets the academics trying to understand our love of internet 'memes'

Inside Features

New vision: A visitor tries out a Sony 3D experience at the firm's exhibition at IFA, the giant electronics trade fair which took place this month in Berlin

This year's models: The 10 best gadgets

Friday, 16 September 2011

David Phelan picks his top products that were hits at at the world's biggest electronics conference.

Pants on fire: Ex-US congressman Anthony Weiner claimed that his Twitter was 'hacked'

Cyberclinic: Is 'I've been hacked' the lamest excuse ever?

Friday, 16 September 2011

Incredibly, I've managed never to send anything across the internet that's suddenly caused me to squeal in regret, break out in a sweat and rack my brains for an excuse.

Smart bombs: Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future

TED Talks: What's the big idea?

Friday, 16 September 2011

Lectures by prominent thinkers and interesting mavericks under the TED banner are now a global phenomenon. But what goes on behind the scenes? John Walsh joins the brainy roadshow

Find the right words: human translators behave in a similar way to Google Translate

How Google Translate works

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

The web giant's translation service is one of the smartest communication tools of all time, says David Bellos.

Stanford students in a lecture

The really free schools are online

Monday, 12 September 2011

Rhodri Marsden: An Ivy League degree costs a fortune, so why is a US college giving its course away for free?

The ten best electric toys

Monday, 12 September 2011

Bleeps and flashes always make play more exciting – just don’t forget to stock up on batteries.

Can Google TV succeed in the UK?

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

During this year’s Edinburgh Television Festival, Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt confirmed reports that the company will introduce Google TV into the UK market within the next 6 months

.xxx rated: internet's red-light district has arrived

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

The scramble for the adult industry's new dedicated domain name has begun, its founder tells Nick Clark

The ten best musical toys

Monday, 5 September 2011

Giving little ones noise-making toys can be fun and educational (if your eardrums can stand it)

Britain to get superfast internet network, using gaps left behind by analogue TV

Friday, 2 September 2011

Britain is set to become the first country in Europe to install a new type of internet connection providing fast access to rural homes and businesses, after the experimental system was given the go-ahead by the telecoms regulator Ofcom.

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