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An original Apple 1 computer from 1976 - one of the first built in Steve Jobs' garage - sells at auction for more than 500,000 euros ($650,000).

How easy is it to hack a smart meter?

The 'safety belt' for the walking texter

Mobile technologies have changed the way we work and communicate - but the very fact we use them on the move can cause serious accidents.

Mark Istook reports on Microsoft's new approach and hears how the company still believes its new device is still primarily a gaming console.

RBS has apologised for the second time in two months after customers were unable to login to their accounts through their mobile phone app.

Social networking giant postpones the launch of its "Facebook phone" after negative feedback and disappointing sales.

Fan fiction authors will be able to publish and sell some titles in the US via new e-book platform Kindle Worlds.

Rory Cellan-Jones on TV and tech learning to co-exist

A public appeal for help to recover the very first web page has unearthed a relic from 1991.

Click's Dan Simmons reports on Yahoo's purchase of blogging site, Tumblr and other technology stories of the week.

The BBC is to close its Digital Media Initiative, with director general Tony Hall saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".

Sally Bercow's tweet about Lord McAlpine was libellous, the High Court rules.

Russia's most popular social network, VKontakte, is temporarily blacklisted by mistake - and some users find it blocked.

Kate Russell looks at a website offering video editing software used in Hollywood movies, plus other sites and apps reviewed.

In an age when "extremely violent and sadistic imagery is two clicks away", school sex education is struggling to keep pace, suggests a study.

Space engineers in Ecuador are trying to establish if the country's only satellite has been damaged in a crash with space debris.

Why have we been waiting so long for watches to catch up with smart phones?

The technology that's transforming gardening

Marc Cieslak discovers how far time has come since the tower containing Big Ben was built