I’m on my way over to 5live to talk to Richard Bacon about Apple being sued over in-app purchases. Kids on both sides of the Atlantic have apparently been running up big bills on their parent’s iDevices through the purchase of additional features inside games. Games for these devices are often free but once you’re playing you’re offered upgrades or in-game items like currency. Buying them requires just a password. If the kids have the password, they can buy, via the parent’s credit card attached to their iTunes account. This throws up a number of issues:...read more.

I’ve just watched the Andre Geim episode in the BBC series Beautiful Minds. Geim, in case you’re not aware, is the Nobel prize-winning co-discoverer of Graphene. Graphene is one of those discoveries that makes you wonder what the future’s going to look like. 300 times stronger than steel and just a single atom thick, with incredible conductive properties, Graphene and other two-dimensional materials are going to revolutionise our world. If you think we’re sophisticated today, we will look like loincloth-sporting grunts in a hundred years time. As we look back from our super-conducting future we will...read more.