The accepted doctrine about how to create these annoying codes is failing our security, writes Oliver Burkeman.

Technology was supposed to make things simpler. This was the famous promise of those laughable 1960s predictions about life in the 21st century.

Every email that isn’t garbage can be categorised as either "active" or "reference", writes <b>Oliver Burkeman</b>.

There’s nothing new in bulk buying and negotiating discounts. But Groupon does it in 47 countries for more than 70-million people.

In this parlous climate for the traditional media, a journalist who gets too excited about a gadget such as the iPad is liable to attract scorn.

The gaffes, the gibberish, the gurning. Admit it: there’s a part of him you’re going to miss. Oliver Burkeman on Bush’s comic legacy.

Rising fuel costs make electric golf carts an unusual alternative to cars.

One amusing way to waste five minutes on the internet is to visit the website TripAdvisor.com, which features thousands of travellers’ hotel reviews.

Tanya Farber reports on how the clothing design and decor industries are benefitting from trendies turning to designs that draw on local iconography.

It’s okay to draw on the furniture, writes Tanya Farber.

There are few places on the planet where the influence of five bright yellow residents of Springfield has yet to be felt, and there will be fewer still with the long-awaited…

Using a team of co-authors, James Patterson has become perhaps the world’s most successful writer.

With the George W Bush’s approval rating down to 33% in some polls, his lowest ever, an overt message from a musician of Neil Young’s stature could find a large audience, reports…

The Libyan government has promised to pay $10-million compensation to each of the 270 families bereaved in the Lockerbie bombing, a law firm representing many of the relatives…

Last year an American professor stumbled upon a book written by a female slave in the 1850s. Could it possibly be authentic? If so, it would be the earliest known novel by a…