Technology

The Edinburgh Medal is a prestigious award given each year at the Edinburgh International Science Festival to men and women of science and technology whose professional achievements are judged to have made a significant contribution to the understanding and well-being of humanity.

Generation X author Douglas Coupland was last in Scotland for the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2004, and this time he was back sporting a greyish beard and a new novel titled Generation A, as well as his trademark ironic, yet incredibly sincere and honest, sparkle in his eyes.

"Is blogging an art?" was the question this reviewer was asked as he picked up his ticket for what turned out to be one of the most interesting and lively events of the Edinburgh International Book Festival thus far. The answer is that, yes Claudia, it probably is.

A new interactive game called Hungry Hungry Eat Head will be having a public airing on the Big Screen in Edinburgh's Festival Square on Saturday 15 August.

Mark Borkowski who is the Master of the Fringe Festival PR Stunt has constructed a new idea in Festival Fringe awareness, The #Twithibition.

Yesterday (Tuesday 4th August) he started to put together a photographic Twithibition of the most famous stunts that have taken place at the Fringe.

Edinburgh City Council has announced that tickets for Billy Connolly gigs at the Usher Hall will now be available from other ticketing outlets in the city. The box office system crashed yesterday after tickets for the gigs in September went on sale at 10am.

There were echoes of last summer's Fringe ticketing fiasco today when tickets for Billy Connolly's gigs at the Usher Hall in September went on sale this morning and crashed the venue's online box office.

Two U.S. television series will have their UK premieres this June, but it wont be on the small screen in your living room, but on cinema screens at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

The Edinburgh Interactive Festival has confirmed that gaming giant Nintendo has become a partner of this ye

Scientists, amateur astronomers, teachers and outdoor educators are gathering at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh this morning, to launch the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA 2009) in Scotland.

An American geneticist who led the team that first isolated a gene from the chromosome of a living organism, a major breakthrough in the understanding of the processes of life, will be awarded the

The 62nd Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ending today, appears to have survived the wettest August on record and a ticketing fiasco which saw it suspending counter and telephone ticket sales even as preview shows were about to start.

By John Ritchie

The final piece of the Fringe booking fiasco jigsaw fell into place yesterday when Jon Morgan confirmed that the ticketing and booking problem had been an inheritance from the previous Fringe Administrator.

The BBC this morning rolled out a new design for the news sections of their web site in response to the increasing use of bigger monitors and wider screen settings of its millions of users.