Technology

3 Mar 2013

I commend you for publishing details on how technology can help co-parenting within divorced or separated families for the benefit of the children involved. The article cites Google Calendar,...

Make a video and cash in on YouTube

1 Mar 2013

Struggling as a young person to find that dream career? No, don't write a book - make a video. And if it sells, you might find yourself very comfortable, financially.

Transparent film uses light to power phone batteries

26 Feb 2013

A transparent film that costs just one euro (HK$10.24) to make could bring an end to the anguish of mobile phone users facing the dreaded dead-battery message.

Mozilla jumps into smartphone OS fray

24 Feb 2013

Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox internet browser, will today launch its first smartphone operating platform and the handsets on which it will run in an attempt to shake up the way the mobile...

Scientist use 3-D worlds to visualise data

24 Feb 2013

In the system, known as CAVE2, a screen encircles the viewer 320 degrees. A panorama of images springs from 72 stereoscopic liquid crystal display panels, conveying a dizzying sense of being able...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Toybox: convertible ultrabooks

March of science transforming lives of the disabled

We use phrases like "physically handicapped" with increasing unease, preferring those that are more positive-sounding such as "differently abled". But such politically correct euphemisms may prove...

The dangers of the e-mail tsunami

Half a century before the invention of e-mail, T. S. Eliot asked, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

SHORT SCIENCE

Short Science, February 17, 2013

The particle collider that gave scientists a glimpse of what may be the Higgs boson shut down for a two-year revamp that will allow it to pursue the quest with renewed vigour.

TRANSPORT

Self-driving car is tested by scientists in UK

The new system has been installed in a Nissan Leaf electric car and tested at up to 64km/h on private roads around the university. Researchers hope the cost of the system can be brought down to £...

SCIENCE FOCUS

How can Hongkongers avoid being struck by lightning?

What are the odds of being struck by lightning in Hong Kong? Records show that over the past 20 or so years there have been 44 casualties, including six deaths. That puts the odds of being struck...