The future of virtual reality: want to conquer vertigo or have a go at surgery?
Now you can with the next level of 3D technology – which defies gravity and lets you come squeamishly close to death
NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank apps hit by glitches
Latest IT problem for banking group sees customers getting error message when logging on
Bafta event: games writing discussion and Games Journalism Prize presentation
Keith Stuart: Next Wednesday sees Bafta hosting a panel discussion on games writing as well as the results of the Thumbstar Games Journalism Prize – we have tickets to give away
20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week
Kung Fu Robot, City Guides by National Geographic, Tetris Blitz, Mailbox for iPad, Symmetry School, Fry, Blip Blup, Disney Junior Appisodes and more. By Stuart Dredge
Google and Facebook in bidding war over Waze travel app company
Search pioneer reportedly made approach after social network's $1bn offer was rebuffed, in move that could boost its maps app. By Charles Arthur
Cannes 2013: Michael Kohlhaas – first look review
Andrew Pulver: Mads Mikkelsen makes a principled avenging warrior in this handsome 16th-century-set tale of a man wronged – which could certainly use picking up the pace a little
YouTube Comedy Week, day five: David Brent’s guitar hit a rare high note
Brian Logan: Too many in-jokes, too much ephemera, and an overdose of online sterility – it's fair to say YCW hasn't been a huge success
Film-makers need to trust the audience
Scarecrow and The King of Marvin Gardens – quirky, unstylised films made in the 60s and 70s that refused to smooth their rough edges. This bravery, Adam Mars-Jones argues, is what film-makers are missing today
Photographer documents a year in the life of a tree on his iPhone
Mark Hirsch publishes images taken using his smartphone through the changing seasons in a book called That Tree
Cannes film festival diary: day 10
Xan Brooks: As a memorable if wet festival draws to a close, and Blue is the Warmest Colour emerges as a tentative Palme d'Or frontrunner, The Immigrant seems to capture the prevailing mood of fatigue
Cannes 2013: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz – review
Andrew Pulver: This revival of the 1974 adaptation of Mordecai Richler's novel proved a wonderful shop-window for the young Richard Dreyfuss
Sir Christopher Lee’s new album will be ’100% heavy metal’
Actor to release Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, recorded with Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner, on his 91st birthday
Inspire magazine: the self-help manual for al-Qaida terrorists
Ian Black: Al-Qaida's slick and sinister magazine for jihadis, Inspire, suggests using a vehicle to mow down a target – which is apparently what happened in Woolwich
BBC axes £98m technology project to avoid ‘throwing good money after bad’
Independent investigation launched after Digital Media Initiative, which aimed to digitise archive, results in catalogue of errors. By Tara Conlan