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It was a momentary blip which cost the U.S Stock Exchange over $136 billion - and it was caused by a hacked tweeter account.

The Obama Administration has refused a petition that would have required it to build a fully operational Death Star by 2016.

On the news sites the 2012 US Presidential Election has become a battle of the interactive maps - here are some of the best and most informative.

The White House has stepped into the SOPA/PIPA debates: broadly criticising the acts, the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley.

Politics was one of the most influential topics on Klout in 2011 yet entertainers were more influential on the social network, according to this infographic

Was one of the last patents granted to Steve Jobs for one for the latest MacBook?

If you weren't one of the luck 40,000 people who squeezed into Dublin’s College Green to hear President Obama’s speech then click over to this brilliant panorama by Irish photographer Con O’Donoghue.

The latest information for people who will be in and around Dublin City during the visits of Queen Elizabeth and President Obama.

The Gardaí, Ireland’s national police force, has joined Twitter ahead of the historic visits of Queen Elizabeth and President Barack Obama in the next two weeks. The Gardaí’s Twitter account, @gardatraffic, will become one of the main ways the police force will notify the public of planned widespread disruptions to vehicle and pedestrian travel in and around Dublin City.

A massive scar, caused by one of the most destructive tornado super-cells to hit the US in 30 years, stretches across the Alabama city of Tuscaloosa in these satellite images just released by Google.

While U.S. President Barack Obama’s security team was in Moneygall, Co Offaly, last week they were too early to pick up one of these “What’s the craic Barack” t-shirts.

Fund:it encourages social networking users and others to donate small amounts of money to groups and organisations who wish to set up arts or technology projects in Ireland. As with other crowdfunding networks Fund:it follows sets a minimum monetary total and a time limit for each project, if a project fails to reach or exceed its target the funding will not go through.

Fund:it, an Irish crowdfunding effort supported by The Department of Arts Sports and Tourism is calling for people in the business, arts and media sectors in Ireland to submit their latest business ideas. The organisation is designed to fund these new companies without the dependence on hard-to-get bank loans but through the power of social media.

The British Foreign Office has created a Skype account to handle enquiries from UK citizens looking to leave Libya.The account, libyacharterflight, was created as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office chartered a 200 seat flight to evacuate Britons from Tripoli.

The White House have released this iconic image of US President Barack Obama’s dinner with technology business leaders last night in Woodside California. The aim of the gathering is said to promote technological innovation as a means to increase employment and boost the US economy.