The crash of the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that killed one pilot and injured another scattered wreckage across a large area of the Mojave desert, but it also clearly rattled the “small” community of test pilots and technicians in the field.

The craft dubbed SpaceShipTwo was destroyed after it separated from its mother ship, White Knight Two, the company said.

The announcement should come as no surprise. Last year, the MPAA urged theater operators to crack down on movie piracy with the use of night-vision goggles, security cameras, and low-light binoculars. The MPAA's "Best Practices to Prevent Film Theft" also urged theater operators to perform "random bag and jacket checks" of patrons and to "look for the unusual."

The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared.

The Catholic Church has long had a reputation for being anti-science – most famously when Galileo faced the inquisition and was forced to retract his “heretic” theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

Comcast last week applied for a trademark on the phrase "True Gig" to describe extremely fast Internet service.

Gigabit Internet would make it easier for customers to hit Comcast's 300GB monthly data caps, triggering overage charges. Comcast is testing the caps in some markets and plans to extend them to its whole territory within five years.

American Airlines Flight 136 from Los Angeles to London was grounded for nearly a day after a passenger spotted a Wi-Fi network named "Al-Quida Free Terror Network" (sic).

Among the passengers stranded in the incident was UK Government Communications Service head of digital communications Anthony Simon, who was understandably miffed by the ordeal.

"Thanks to the idiot who did this meaning I won't get back to London for another day."

Most of those killed were ISIS militants and Syrian Kurdish fighters, battling for control of Kobani, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The group said it believes the actual casualty figure is twice the number documented, "because there is absolute secrecy on casualties and due to the difficulty of access to many areas and villages that have witnessed violent clashes and bombardment by the two sides."

A European Union goal to cut greenhouse gases by 40 percent by 2030, agreed early on Friday, sets the pace for a global deal to tackle climate change, pitting heavy industry against green business.

The world's biggest polluters are unlikely to be as ambitious as the EU. China, the biggest emitter, has said it wants to cap its booming emissions, but has not said when.

Facebook has revealed its solution for allowing people to anonymously gossip with one another online: internet chat rooms.

The social network said its Rooms app for iOS lets netizens connect on shared interests and use pseudonyms in order to hide their identities from each other. Just like IRC.

Adobe has tweaked its Digital Editions 4 desktop ebook reader to now encrypt the data it secretly sends back to headquarters detailing a user's reading habits.

Earlier this month it was revealed that the Digital Editions software was collecting large amounts of information about the books it was being used to read, including the title, publisher, and the time and order every page was read in.

The latest action, on Thursday morning, saw a man, 55, and woman, 39, arrested in Bury for allegedly selling hard drives containing up to 200,000 counterfeited files.

Pipcu said the drives contained a mixture of karaoke tunes, full music tracks and music videos thought to be worth "more than £350,000".

The new funding will come from the budget of the Intellectual Property Office - which is supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.