Gamers playing Assassin’s Creed 2 on their computers were locked out after hackers attacked the servers on which some content is stored.

Developed countries are “outsourcing” more than a third of their carbon emissions associated with products and services to other countries, researchers say.

Mandatory EnergyGuide labels are being proposed for all televisions sold in the United States in an effort to give consumers more information about the energy cost of watching TV.

Once the scourge of the seven seas because of their appetite for wooden sailing ships, gribbles could hold the secret to turning wood into biofuels.

An international team of scientists has developed a new type of semiconductor that could lead to faster and more efficient computers with over double the average existing hard-drive storage capacity.