Another bittersweet day for the American space program: After having a delicious breakfast, astronauts boarded the space shuttle Endeavour, her last flight ever and the penultimate flight for the shuttle program. Watch the video here. The mission name is STS-134 and, so far, everything seems perfect and in place. NASA TV commenters were just talking about how smooth everything went this time which, given the problems in recent months,...

Bill Gates’ Microsoft is said to be close to sealing a deal to buy the VOIP service Skype for 8.5 billion dollars (£5 billion). The proposed deal will be the biggest in Microsoft’s 36 year life and potentially the most benefitial, reported the Wall Street Journal. The deal would mark another big move for Microsoft to take on the internet rivals Google and Facebook. A spokesperson from microsoft said the company does not comment...

In an interview with Russia Today, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange went all conspiracy theorist on Facebook. He says: Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the worlds most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their location their communication with each other, their relatives…all accessible to US intelligence. Assange...

The Naneye camera is 1x1mm, or smaller than a match head, and does 250×250 pixels at 44 frames per second. The use? “medical, dental imaging, surgical robots, guide wire, disposable equipment”. The camera will remain fully operational at as little as 1.8 volts and can be used on a cable up to 2m in length. Ok, Portal 2 references aside this nifty device will aid all kinds of medical science from the general operation to...

Sony is still hard at work attempting to recover operations after the security breach that they experienced on April 20th after which they admitted that 77 million user records were lost. Sony is currently in the process of moving the PSN network infrastructure and data centre “to a new, more secure location.” As for all of those personal details that may or may not have been compromised, Sony has a handy Q&A addressing each...

A slip of an internal video has shown that HTC has got a 16MP camera phone in its mind, but could it be too good to be true? That’s over double the megapixels that they have got on any of their current phones, so if this video is to be true (which I am not too sure about) then that could be a pretty amazing bit of kit. The phone itself, as PocketNow points out, seems to resemble the Desire S phone which was announced at MWC, only...