At least one scientist has tried to prove that the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier as depicted in "The Avengers" would fly about as well as an ostrich. But that hasn't stopped an ambitious Russian modeler from creating a scaled-down version of the fictional aircraft carrier. And what do you know, it actually flies.

We take a look at some areas in which the iPhone 5 must improve if it's to keep Apple in the smartphone race.

Away from all the talk of the iPhone 5 release one other highly anticipated new smartphone for 2012 is the next Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. The current model is still selling well and has achieved sales of over twenty million globally since its launch. There are now reports that the Galaxy S III is to feature an iPhone beating screen when it is eventually released.

Resident Evil 6 will be released in November 2012, Capcom have confirmed. The games developer announced they are currently working on the new installment of the popular zombie series.An official trailer for the game was released on Thursday (19 January), and hinted that parts of it will be set in China.

In the past few months there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the release of the next iPad. There have been reports that Apple had already begun production of the device with a release early 2012, and now there is talk that the iPad 3 release date is to coincide with Steve Jobs birthday.

The number of illegally downloaded video games has gone up nearly 20% in the last five years. Figures from research firm Envisional also suggest the top five games from 2010 were pirated online almost a million times.

The Steam video game service, used by 35 million people, has been compromised by hackers. Its owner and operator, Valve, uncovered an intrusion into a user database while investigating a security breach of its discussion forums.

When you spend a lot of time online you think you’ve seen most things, then pops along a video showing a McDonald’s cashier beating customers, which has not only hit YouTube but is also gaining in viewing numbers fast.

Microsoft is touting very fast boot times for Windows 8, thanks to the clever trick of writing the kernel state to disk at shutdown.

The long-running patent dispute between Apple and HTC has really kicked off this weekend, with a US judge ruling that HTC has infringed two of Apple’s tech patents by using designs owned by Apple in its Android phones.