Two developers offered a warning to others at this year's Game Developers Conference: making a buck out of gaming apps shouldn't just be a race to the bottom (even though they made money with minimal effort).

The US government wants to send people back to the Moon by 2024 and Jeff Bezos welcomes the plan. His rocket company Blue Origin could help with the task and has a big lunar lander called Blue Moon under development.

US Senator Josh Hawley wants to ban the sale of loot boxes in games targeted at children under the age of 18. He considers addictive games to be manipulative and exploitative, "siphoning kids attention from the real world".

In the future, AI may decide if you are really you at passport control. AI, facial recognition, iris and fingerprint scans and other biometric data will be used to streamline immigration processing. At least until the system crashes or is hacked.

If you were after a log of a phone with ultra long battery life, Energizer's 18,000 mAh battery-with-a-phone-in-it isn't made for you, after failing miserably with its Indiegogo crowd funding attempt.

Search engine DuckDuckGo proposes a new law which would compel big internet companies like Google and Facebook to honour your browser preferences with regard to tracking. If you select "do not track", then this will actually happen, rather than being ignored.

Three containers of sealed moon rocks will soon be opened 50 years after they were collected by Apollo astronauts. Scientists are hoping that modern lab analysis will yield new information about the early history of the Earth-Moon system.

After a 2 year international investigation, the dark net's biggest drug marketplace has been closed. The sophisticated operation was being run out of New Jersey by three men. When their property was raided, police made the largest pill seizure in New Jersey history.

Prolific Chinese Android App developer DO Global has been banned from the Google Play store after being caught out committing ad fraud and violating other Google policies. This is a serious embarrassment for Google, which has suffered reputational damage to the core of its advertising-based business model.

China and others are rapidly expanding their presence in Antarctica - not just for scientific purposes. There are now 80 international bases with several new ones under construction. Will the 1959 Antarctic Treaty continue to restrict activity in the world's last pristine wilderness? And is Australia's 42% sovereign claim to the continent at risk?