Press: A US patent for self-driving cars has been awarded to Google. The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into the state where it takes charge of...

Events: £530m has been set aside to push "superfast" broadband to the UK&39;s countryside by the end of 2015. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has defined "superfast" broadband as speeds greater than 24Mbps.

Awards: That's according to Google's annual Zeitgeist - a look back at the most popular search terms of the year. The royal wedding topped the list of fastest rising search terms, with Apples...