Despite all the rumors and purported cases that are floating around the Internet for the iPhone 5, Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S, a completely different phone from what was expected. Everybody has been led to believe that Apple will launch a revolutionary new iPhone that sports a bigger screen and a thinner body. Well, it turns out that rumors are true.

Research by the anti-fraud firm revealed the biggest five films of 2010 were download around 1.4 million times during last year. For example, Avatar is thought to have been illegally downloaded around 200,000 times. Furthermore, internet piracy is costing the film industry around £170m every year.

Four years after the initial filing, Apple has been granted a US patent for its iPhone touch screen interface. If this seems like a long time, it will have been well worth the wait for the tech giant, who now has a significant legal advantage in the notoriously competitive smartphone market.

Microsoft on Thursday released a software development kit for its Kinect gaming system, and hackers are already testing the limits of what the device can do.

We've seen robots that can crawl and walk, ones that can climb walls using electroadhesive film, and some that are a bit less talented, but just look darn good. Today, we focus on bots that have one thing in common: These guys can dance.

This 3,500-brick model of Vader’s flagship, the Executor, sure is sweet! I love the greebles (AFOL-speak for cool-looking but merely decorative scifi details) on the top, as well as the cute scale model of a regular star destroyer next to it.

The Pirate Bay, which might feel somewhat overshadowed by Anonymous, has posted a rallying call to arms on its blog and, channelling the voice of Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, announced that its "finest hour" is upon it.

Tattoo artists are increasingly leaving their mark on Western culture, but a study released Thursday reveals for the first time how their designs will deteriorate as their human canvases age.

Amazon's cloud-based streaming music service has sparked an angry reaction from music industry bosses who claim the service may be illegal. Amazon's Cloud Drive – announced yesterday - allows customers to store songs on the company's servers instead of their own hard drives and play the content through their web browser or Android phone.

Got a new Nintendo 3DS system and want to know which games you should buy first? Over the last month, everyone on GamePro’s editorial team has been playing all of the 3DS launch titles, and have picked their favorites. Here's how they stack up - listed from the least-picked to the most-picked.