In a ludicrously extravagant marketing push for its flagship device, Samsung is totally taking over Heathrow's Terminal 5 for two weeks. According to The Next Web, on Monday 19th May Samsung will be adding tonnes of signage, digital screens and every other kind of promotional tool you can imagine to ensure everyone travelling in and…

Do you constantly wonder why you're not getting as many likes on your selfies as your friends? Wonder no more, as apparently there may be a secret formula you're not using. A researcher at MIT, Aditya Khosla, scoured 2.3 million images from Flickr in order to determine whether it was possible to predict whether or…

Snapchat looks like it's becoming more and more popular everyday, and, according to a report out today, is now the top messaging app in North America, generating even more traffic than WhatsApp. Sandvine's research, based on monitoring network traffic across a number of its mobile and fixed carrier customers, shows just how important picture and…

The game that got us all annoyingly addicted for weeks; Flappy Bird is returning to the app store in August, complete with a multiplayer mode. The creator, Dong Nguyen, told CNBC's Kelly Evans the news on the network's Closing Bell programme today. He added that the game will be less addictive and we don't know…

Singer and antagonist Morrissey joined Twitter way back in 2009, but (fortunately for us) he's never taken to the micro-blogging platform to share his often controversial views about vegetarianism, Chinese people and the correlation between extinct rhinos and Beyonce's handbags. Well, until now. Yesterday, Morrissey (tweeting as @itsmorrissey) broke his silence and sent two rather…

You can now exchange second-hand games, monitors and old Nokia handsets for Bitcoin - for three days, in Scotland. Tech and gaming exchange shop CeX has started a three-day trial of the digital currency, becoming the first physical UK retailer to do so, exclusively in its Sauchiehall branch, in Glasgow. While using Bitcoin to buy…

Over the past seven months, Pinterest has been "experimenting" with promoted pins, but will its news plans to step up its monetisation game have too much of a negative impact on the experience of its users? Four years after its launch and Pinterest is still a firm favourite for content curation, visual inspiration and, of…