Regular contributor Bill Thompson looks at what separates TV and the internet.

Elbot is a computer program pretending to be a person. And this week it won a prize for coming closest to fooling people into thinking it was human. The BBC's Mark Lobel catches him in more a relaxed moment.

The ExoMars rover, which will search for signs of life on the Red Planet, will not launch now until 2016 because of high costs.

Three out of four children have seen images on the internet that disturbed them, according to an NSPCC poll.

New technologies are forging bonds among families and bringing people together, says a report.

Economic worries prompt Texas Instruments and Sun Microsystems to warn of lower profits.

Online auction site eBay says it is bringing in a global ban on the sale of all ivory products to protect elephants.

The global release of a much-anticipated video game is delayed because of concerns it could offend Muslims.

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