World Cup 2014 To Use Bomb-Detecting Robots

Battle-tested robots have become the latest addition to Brazil's tough security line-up for next year's World Cup.

The govenment has bought a fleet of iRobot 510 Packbots - usually used to neutralise roadside bombs and to inspect buildings and people for traces of explosives.

The $7.2m (£4.74m) order will allow police to safely deal with any threats from a distance.

It is also the same robot that examined the car allegedly hijacked by the Boston Marathon bombings suspects.

Cosmic map reveals first evidence of other universes

SCIENTISTS believe they have found the first evidence that other universes exist.

The finding, based on data gathered by the European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft, implies that our universe could be just one of billions — perhaps an infinite number.

Computers are about to take a quantum leap into the future

A Canadian company with substantial venture capital backing claims to have built a "quantum computer" that will ultimately solve problems beyond the power of conventional systems - and will demonstrate it over a live link next week.

Twitter, Facebook, Ebay to develop Google Glass apps

Google has announced a range of apps in development for its Glass headset, including social networks Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr and ecommerce website Ebay.

Google Glass, an eyeglass frame with a small panel over the left eye, searches the web, records video, and can relay email messages to the user.

The therapist in your pocket: App that can can turn your Android phone into a mobile mood tracker

A new app designed to track a person's mood throughout the day could turn your smartphone into a pocket therapist, researchers claim.

The free app developed by the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory takes advantage of the fact phones are increasingly capable of collecting information about where we are, how noisy our environment is, how much we are moving around and who we communicate with.

It will invisibly monitor data such as a user's calling and texting patterns to track their conversations and work out how they are feeling.

Using the phone's built-in global positioning system, accelerometer and microphone, it will develop a pattern of that person's habits, activities and routines.

International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability

 The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers aboard the International Space Station in association with NASA, has announced that the Windows XP computers aboard the ISS have been switched to Linux. “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”

'Animated Atoms' Star In World's Smallest Movie

Scientists have made the world's smallest ever stop-motion movie by manipulating individual atoms.

The one-minute video from the IBM team shows carbon monoxide molecules repeatedly rearranged to show a boy dancing, throwing a ball and bouncing on a trampoline.