News in Brief Hey, carrying out this landing sequence doesn't seem much like a game. Are we actually controlling the Mars Rover?

Microsoft announced today that it's the first Office app coming to the Metro interface on both Windows 8 and Windows RT.

We reveal the latest version of Office, and ask the question "is it worth the upgrade costs?"

News in Brief The world's largest laser has been fired, but not from the back of a giant shark.

News in Brief Has the download had its day? In Sweden, perhaps, where streaming is winning the digital format war.

News in Brief If Angry Birds is anything to go by, prepare to be heartily sick of Amazing Alex in five, four, three…

News in Brief We'll go and find out for you, yeah?

News in Brief Aliens, photos from Mars and Michael Fassbender who played a space-travelling robot in Prometheus. Relevant.

HTC's recent struggles continue with its latest quarterly report showing downturns in year-on-year revenues and profits.

Updated It's the camera we've been talking about for the last couple of years and its been topping the sales charts.

News in Brief Facebook has made another email booboo with a bug that replaces all email addresses on some mobile apps. A bug. Sure.

The affordable HTC One V is making its way to the US by way of Virgin Mobile starting in July.

News in Brief Google may lose out on the vintage pound as it emerges that the Nexus 7 isn't Instagram-compatible.

News In Brief Atari celebrates its birthday with a free game giveaway on the Apple App Store.

News in Brief Zynga's reinventing the wheel with its new game, Farmville 2. The good news is, no one's going to play it.

News in Brief If you're going to start hacking people's brains, Stephen Hawking's seems like a good one to start with.

News in Brief Kim Dotcom's had Woz over and now he's releasing a single – we're hoping its a duet.

News in Brief At least 40 people in the world say they have used their iPhone during sex and we just don't understand where society went so wrong.

News in Brief Spotify mobile apps are getting radio functionality but who cares? Wayne Rooney's made a playlist.

News in Brief We can't decide if one agency's proposal to offer strikethroughs for erroneous tweets would result in more embarrassment or less.

News in Brief The Indian Ocean is actually a landmass north west of the UK and not an ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.

News in Brief Vodafone's new gadget kills two festival woes: it's an umbrella that boosts phone signal and stops you getting wet.

Qualcomm will suffer shortages of its Snapdragon S4 chips into next year as it struggles to meet demand.

The chronic shortage of Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processors means HTC has been forced to fit the One S handset with an older chipset in some territories.

News in Brief We can only assume that this £1770 Lamborghini phone is the result of a good taste/good sense murder-suicide.