Just a week after the Kindle DX was axed, seems Amazon is trimming its product line further: evidence suggests that its Kindle Touch is to be discontinued, with the Paperwhite filling the gap. Read More >

Foss Patents is reporting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively invalidated Apple's bounce scroll — sometimes referred to as "rubber banding" — patent possibly affecting the recent ruling in the Apple vs Samsung trial. Read More >

For those eager to hear what Tim Cook has to announce later on, good news: today's Apple event will be streamed live, direct to Apple TVs. Read More >

This amazing video shows a NASA-created simulation of the entire life of a single disk galaxy — all the way from the Big Bang 13.5 billion years ago to the present time. Read More >

A team of computer science researchers have revealed that Android apps used by as many as 185 million people can expose online banking and social network credentials, as well as emails and IM content. Read More >

While the future of storage on your laptop is undoubtedly solid state, it's more difficult to predict how the huge tranches of data in server farms will be housed in the future. Recent suggestions, though, predict the rebirth of an old technology: the humble cassette tape. Read More >

NASA satelite imaging has revealed that a massive crack in Antartica's Pine Island glacier is growing fast. Which is bad. But the GIF it's made is so good it almost makes up for it. Read More >

In an attempt to distance itself still further from Java, Apple released a Mac update Wednesday which removes Java plugins from any web browser running on OS X. Read More >

This stunning picture of an alligator looks like it's been photoshopped. Amazingly, it's not been manipulated at all—which is why it's snagged a prize in the UK Natural History Museum's wildlife photographer of the year competition. Read More >

Finally Google has made its Calendar app available on the Play Store, in the process of overhauling the software that comes pre-installed on any phone running stock Android. Sadly, though, it might not work properly on your phone. Read More >

AOL has launched a new cloud-based email client called Alto and it manages to achieve the seemingly impossible: it makes email look kinda... pretty. Read More >

Nokia has just announced a total operating loss of £467 million for the third quarter of 2012, a drop in its net cash from £4 billion last year to £3.4 billion now, and declining Lumia sales. Oh dear. Read More >

If you don't know why humans blush, don't be embarrassed: just watch this video. You might be able to guess that it's to do with increased blood flow in the face—but even scientists are still a little puzzled by its evolutionary basis. Read More >

There's no shortage of great images from the International Space Station, but this time-lapse from the ISS, created by "stacking" sequences of images, is absolutely mesmeric. Read More >

Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking supersonic jump was an amazing feat of human endeavour. But getting Felix to break the speed of sound caused Red Bull Stratos technical project director Art Thompson some engineering headaches. Here's how he solved them. Read More >