U.S. astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conjectured that a very rare hypervelocity star (a really fast one) was flung out of our Milky Way galaxy by its supermassive black hole over one hundred million years ago.

Astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescopes have discovered buckyballs for the first time in space. These all-carbon molecules are now considered the largest molecule ever discovered in space. A single buckyball is about 1 nanometer across--about three times larger than a water molecule.

Keen to drum up publicity for its “impressive line-up of mobile devices”, Optus is bringing a “pop-up venue” known as “The Love Lounge” to Sydney for one week, featuring master cooking classes, urban acrobatics, things for fashionistas and an appearance by US pop star Kelly Rowland.

The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) has welcomed the release of a research paper by the University of Ballarat which estimated that at least 89 percent of traffic on BitTorrent, and possibly as much as 98 percent, was in breach of copyright.

With Toshiba launching dozens of new notebooks for the consumer and business spaces for virtually any kind of user, along with new TVs, HD camcorders, a “cloud companion” PC and the book like dual-screen Libretto, the announcement that Toshiba would be launching its own slate with either the Android OS installed, Windows 7 or potentially even both this October arguably stole the show!

The 23 Australian innovators that will headline this year’s Tech23 event have been announced – all salivating no doubt at the opportunity to compete for a $150,000 prize-pool.

Popular online dating website Red Hot Pie has been forced by the courts to reveal to its users that it operated 1,371 of its own profiles on the website.