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Opinion Late night, beer-powered confessions of love and lust. Entire music playlists devoted to the musical Hairspray. The list goes on and on, and seems to get longer every day.

Gary Marshall If you look at what PCs can do, it's clear that every single one is a magic-powered joy machine. You know this. I know this. Why don't PC firms appear to know this?

Tutorial Install and run Windows 8 as a virtual machine, ensuring that your current installation isn't affected at all.

Tutorial Overwhelmed by an overload of social media? Karl Hodge shows you how to take control of tweets, updates and posts

We show you how Newton's laws of physics not only control our world, but also that of some angry flightless birds who want revenge on some thieving pigs.

In Depth Forget the space race to Mars - the real technological arms race is taking place in super-cooled bunkers across the globe as countries compete to take the crown of fastest supercomputer on Earth.

Tutorial IrfanView, named after creator Irfan Skiljan, is a fast, compact and easy-to-use image viewer that can handle a wide variety of graphic file formats and use batch processing to save you time.

Tutorial Test out your hacking skills to thwart potential snoopers and scammers and ensure your system is as secure as it can be.

While most of the semiconductor industry is, and always has been, based in California's Silicon Valley, there's a major British success in the so-called Silicon Fen area around Cambridge.

With the name Tahiti being dangled before us, we were hoping for a more luxurious surrounding for an insight into AMD's new Southern Islands graphics processor than the basement of a Soho hotel.

Opinion Music, video, books... the question of who owns what in our increasingly digital world is going to be one of the most contentious for the foreseeable future.

In Depth Thanks to the deepest recession in living memory, straightforward theft and street muggings for smartphones are also at an all time high, so how do you protect your data freedom on the move?

Tutorial Put an old PC to good use as a headless torrent and file server

Explained AMD enters the stereoscopic 3D arms race

Opinion The Ubuntu team should be prepared to be as open about the number of users as the Fedora project team are, especially when they're making such bold predictions for the future of their distribution.

Tutorial Getting exposure wrong in-camera is one of the easiest mistakes to make when taking pictures, but fixing it can be rather hit and miss.