David Phelan goggles at Sony's box

Twitter has, for most, entwined itself into our daily routines but when the cheeky turns to creepy, it's not necessarily all fun and games, says Jamie Smith

It is not only the most powerful flagship smartphone on the market, but also the most affordable. After living with it for a month, Alex Masters reviews Google’s latest Nexus handset

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David Phelan manages – just – to get his hands on Sony’s flagship mobile at the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas

Can the answer to the obesity crisis be found in the cutlery drawer? The first intimation that it might came, of all places, from Sir Alan Sugar, who titled a chapter "The Tiny Fork Diet" in his 2011 book The Way I see It. It gathered pace thanks to a French book, published last year, called Dîne Avec Une Fourchette: the idea of both being that if you only eat food with a fork, and prepared with a fork, you forgo the fattening, slippery delights of yoghurt, ice cream, butter et al (see forkitdiet.com for a wider array of things that aren't allowed to tickle your tines).

In one of South Park's most celebrated episodes, the four main characters get addicted to beating a fellow player on World of Warcraft and are only able to stop when Stan's dad is given a special sword by the game's maker. Now a Chinese father has staged a rather more impressive intervention, according to local reports.

2012 has offered some highs and lows, we've laughed, we've cried and here are our ten favourite moments

But reading between the lines, Samuel Muston discovers that it could be bad news for all of us

Taking a tour of celebrity homes is so last century. What the discerning movie buff does now is pay homage at the location of their favourite scene. And the website FILMography has made it all the more joyous with a collection of images that matches modern-day New York with stills from movies as diverse as The Dark Knight Rises, Leon and Annie Hall.

Rhodri Marsden and Harriet Walker go head to head to find out who copes best.

You know the drill: new year means new plans to get fit. Make life easy with these clever and funky bits of kit...

Under-25s are in the process of ditching their CDs, paperbacks and DVDs. Oliver Smith reports on what one venture capitalist is calling the 'asset-light generation'

The technologies and methods used by the authorities to monitor us has never been  more advanced, as Rob Hastings found out

Capture a New Year’s Eve panorama, edit family photos or turn your shots into mini videos with these applications